The UK Government’s 2023 Green Finance Strategy – published as part of ‘Green Day’ announcement – set out the policy blueprint to become “the world’s first Net Zero-aligned Financial Centre.”
A coalition of 20 organisations led by think tank E3G, including Octopus Energy and WWF-UK, have raised concerns over claims made within the recent Hydrogen Champion Report.
Energy Secretary Grant Shapps today (12 April) announced that those wishing to apply for the Alternative Fuel Payments scheme (AFP) can use receipts of fuel purchase from as far as June 2022 – a three-month extension.
UK Minister for Energy Security, Grant Shapps, was in South Korea on April 10 where he signed a cooperation agreement with its government which promotes investment opportunities in the UK renewables sector to South Korean firms.
Tim Pick, the UK’s first Offshore Wind Champion, has called on the UK government to mobilise investment in supply chains to reduce grid constraints and compete with the UK Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan.
According to recently-published data from the Department of Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ), wind power produced a “record high” share of the UK’s energy between October and December 2022 at 24.6%.
David Osmon, a former senior economist at Ofgem, has called on the UK government to reduce standing charges on prepayment meters (PPM) permanently by removing VAT from them.
