Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

Government touts High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGRs) to help decarbonise power and produce hydrogen. At present, over a third - 37 per cent - of the UK's carbon emissions are generated by heating, with industrial processes responsible for a significant portion, due in large part to the country's reliance on the fossil fuel gas for heating.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

However, the firm said it would still "keep the lines of communication open with government" regarding future options at both sites, raising the prospect that the plans could be revived if the government's long awaited Energy White Paper helps address the financing challenges that continue to dog proposals for new nuclear projects in the UK.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Britain's biggest business group urges government to fast track rollout of host of green technologies, including new CCUS, hydrogen, EV, and renewables projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The government has been accused of coming up short with its much-vaunted green recovery plan, as further details on its £12bn low carbon investment package were released yesterday that suggested the new measures would only deliver around half of the CO2 cuts required to hit UK climate targets over the coming decade.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The nuclear sector has become the latest industry to wade into the debate about the government's imminent green recovery package, arguing that it has a critical role to play in delivering on the UK's net zero emission target. Commitment to the roll-out of smaller and advanced reactors would build on that momentum.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Prime Minister to reaffirm tree-planting plans as part of £5bn 'New Deal' style recovery package, but green campaigners fear 'false start' as key funding announcements still yet to be confirmed. There is very little announced today which will do anything to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. But she voiced her disappointment that the research did not consider the role of biomethane, biomass or geothermal energy in delivering low carbon gas and heating in the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In particular, it argues that infrastructure development for key areas such as hydrogen or EV charging is not currently able to attract "low-cost patient capital" from infrastructure funds and pension funds. As a result, it urges the government to development a framework to make them more attractive to such sources of low cost capital.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The speech was inevitably overshadowed by the news Leicester has already been forced back into lockdown and undermined by the realisation the trailed £5bn package amounted to little more than a compendium of previously announced programmes that are an order of magnitude smaller than the template supposedly provided by FDR's New Deal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Further details forming a trailed 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution are expected to be laid out in November, with reports indicating hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, small modular nuclear reactors, electric vehicles, and green synthetic fuels are likely to feature heavily. Without the damage to the environment.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Sunak again indicated how a mix of high and low carbon projects could be supported by the funding, including new bypassed, railway station upgrades, and traffic reduction measures.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Think tank Green Alliance today provided a broad overview of the current state of UK climate policy, with the publication of its latest report on progress against the country's short term carbon budgets and long term net zero goals. The world is moving very clearly in one direction - away from carbon and toward net zero.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

We need a technology-neutral package," he insists. Something that focuses on all zero carbon technologies. and in meeting our legal obligation of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In the Energy White Paper, we committed to driving sustained growth in solar energy across the next decade to 2030.?".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In recent months Johnson has similarly signalled his support for an acceleration in offshore wind development, investment in new green hydrogen infrastructure, carbon capture technology clusters, electric vehicle charging networks, new nuclear technologies and expanded tree-planting programmes. carbon capture/storage.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It is expected to include a raft of new funding and policy proposals designed to accelerate progress in a host of areas, such as clean energy deployment, energy efficiency upgrades, hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage development, and the switch to electric vehicles.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The scheme offers grants worth up to £5,000 - rising to £10,000 for low income households - against the cost of approved energy efficiency measures such as insulation, heat pumps, and hydrogen-ready boilers. This will give the reassurance needed to the building industry to invest in the scheme," he said.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric. We will have to wait a few more months yet.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

On emissions trading, the clock is ticking but still businesses wait in vain for clarity on a UK carbon pricing regime. This means a clear strategy to upgrade the UK's infrastructure and publishing the Energy White Paper.". But ambition must be matched by action on the ground. These two crises were virtually ignored. "As

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

But responses to a consultation on financing infrastructure published yesterday highlight electric vehicle (EV) charging, energy infrastructure such as carbon capture and storage and small modular nuclear reactors, and digital infrastructure such as fibre optic broadband and data centres, as top priorities for financing in the coming years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Instead, it looks to have opted for a package of loan guarantees for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households. The oil and gas industry has warned that a windfall tax could jeopardise its ability to fund new offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture projects, which is a legitimate concern.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In at least 18 of the world's biggest economies, support for industries and projects with considerable negative environmental impacts have dominated recovery packages, the analysis suggests. per cent - around £1.1bn - of China's recovery package has been designated for green projects.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The NRLA therefore urged the government to launch a new support scheme to help landlords deliver much needed green upgrades to their properties, arguing the high cost of retrofit works such as insulation and low carbon heating remains a major barrier to action in the sector.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Climate Change Committee urged the government late last year to "get our house in order" by delivering an ambitious programme in 2020 to decarbonise the economy, noting once again that the country was badly off track to meet its medium term carbon targets, let alone its more ambitious net zero goal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Gone are the rhetorical flourishes and hymning of humanity's "Promethean spirit" to be replaced by firm commitments to end the sale of internal combustion engine, create markets for heat pumps and hydrogen, and decarbonise entire industries. There is mention of plans for a hydrogen village or town. There is some truth in this.

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