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Energy White Paper: Government unveils plan for 'decisive and permanent' shift away from fossil fuels

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Long-awaited Energy White Paper set to be unleashed alongside plan to establish domestic UK emissions trading scheme from 2021. Overall, it said the strategy would cut UK carbon emissions by 230 million metric tonnes over the next decade, the equivalent to permanently removing 7.5 million petrol cars from the roads.

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Energy White Paper: The green economy reacts

Business Green

Business stands ready to deliver the investment and innovation needed to turn ambition into reality, and the proposals outlined in the Energy White Paper will give firms further confidence to deliver new infrastructure'. We have been waiting years for this energy White Paper and what we need and expect is a proper long-term plan.

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'Missing link': Could nuclear power up the clean hydrogen industry?

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Instead, LucidCatalyst argues governments should consider investing in hydrogen produced by a new generation of advanced modular reactors that are "very different from current large nuclear power plants" and manufactured with new, modular shipyard manufacturing process.

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How Britain's grid became 'cleaner, cheaper, and harder to control' during the Covid-19 lockdown

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The situation reduced the need for fossil fuel power such as coal and gas, and also led to curbed demand for nuclear power, as cheaper forms of renewable power such as wind and solar shouldered the lion's share of Britain's electricity needs.

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Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper

Business Green

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. Here BusinessGreen explores the eight key lessons from the the 170-page White Paper.

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'Our seas hold immense potential': PM pledges to power all UK homes with offshore wind by 2030

Business Green

Announcing the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow confirm a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity to be delivered by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today.

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Nuclear: UK pushes forward with small advanced modular reactor program

Business Green

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.