In the wake of Labour’s budget announcement, concerns that the UK is not doing enough to support its automotive industry through the electrification process are mounting.
The sixth auction round (AR6) for the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme will have a budget of £1.5 billion after Ed Miliband announced a £500 million increase.
Energy UK has urged the UK Government to accelerate efforts to increase energy efficiency of homes in the next Budget with this regarded as crucial to reducing energy bills.
Funding boosts for carbon capture and storage (CCS), electric vehicles (EVs) and nuclear announced, as renewables are once again absent from the UK's Budget.
Net zero will require £33 billion of extra spending per year until 2050, according to new analysis from thinktank IPPR's Environmental Justice Commission.
A cross-party group of MPs has piled pressure onto the government to use next week’s budget to implement greater tax incentives for electric vehicles just days after lobbyists for the automotive and green sectors did the same.