Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

The government has set out its suggested approach for constructing the UK's first Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) demonstrator today, bolstering its ambition for the next generation of small nuclear power plants to be up and running within the next decade.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step in the country's push to enlist distributed energy resources (DERs) at grand scale to balance an increasingly renewable-powered grid. A new active network management project in the U.K. DNOs in the U.K.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The government has repeatedly insisted it remains committed to developing new nuclear projects, having announced funding for research into a new generation of SMRs and signalled that the long-awaited Energy White Paper will feature new financing proposals that would enable new nuclear projects to proceed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In order to reach the higher goals, the government plans to set a target to support up to double the capacity of renewable energy support up for grabs in the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, which is set to open in late 2021, alongside "stringent" goals to support UK turbine manufacturing, it said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boris Johnson has unveiled his much-vaunted 10-point green recovery plan, promising a multi-billion pound package of investment across the green economy designed to create an estimated 250,000 new jobs in the carbon capture, electric vehicle, nuclear, hydrogen and renewables sectors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A new Energy White Paper and National Infrastructure Strategy have been in the pipeline for months, while wider measures designed to put the UK on track to meet its medium and long term emissions goals are also awaited.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Green Jobs Taskforce, which is to be chaired by Energy and Clean Growth Minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Skills Minister Gillian Keegan, aims to deliver an action plan to tackle the immediate and longer-term challenges of delivering skilled workers for the UK's net zero transition, the government said. "I

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Green Jobs Taskforce, which is to be chaired by Energy and Clean Growth Minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Skills Minister Gillian Keegan, aims to deliver an action plan to tackle the immediate and longer-term challenges of delivering skilled workers to enable the UK's net zero transition, the government said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

They have pointed out the plan remains thin on detail for how the government plans to bring down the costs of crucial clean technologies for consumers, scale up energy efficiency improvements, plug looming green skills shortages, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction to the stategy.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Competition law serves to protect consumers and businesses from behavior that hinders or weakens competition which can cause inflated prices, poor quality or scarcity of products, and imbalances in market power. Energy Use and Carbon Emissions. Energy Taxes and Incentives. As part of their Ten Point Plan , the U.K.

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