Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Boris Johnson is set to cast a major vote of confidence in the UK's flourishing offshore wind sector tomorrow in a bid to help the country "build back greener", confirming a higher target for 40GW of capacity by 2030, backed by £160m investment towards state-of-the-art turbine manufacturing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

National Grid's Antony Green sets out the company's wish list for the government's hotly-anticipated Hydrogen Strategy which is expected to emerge summer 2021. With expectations for 2021 as a milestone year for climate change as COP26 fast approaches, hydrogen is one of a few key areas government is exploring that could help achieve net zero.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

As the batteries to make HGVs electric would be too big to stick on the side of a big truck, hydrogen has often been seen as a possible silver bullet for this huge contributor to emissions. That hope was reiterated in the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan late last year, with an investment of half a billion in hydrogen technology.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

However, green businesses and environmental campaigners have repeatedly warned increased funding and clarity on a raft of climate policies are repeatedly required if the UK is to get on track to meet its emissions goals and deliver on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's promise to "build back better".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Analysis published by Aurora Research notes that UK could become hydrogen leader but warns regulatory issues must be tackled in forthcoming hydrogen strategy.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

As such, Labour's warning that the various proposals urgently need to be firmed up if the strategy is to mobilise the investment in hydrogen production, carbon capture and storge (CCS), and green fuels that is needed, was broadly echoed by industry commentators.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Boris Johnson trails first stage in '10-point plan' for a green industrial revolution, as government confirms new £160m wind turbine manufacturing investment. So we are committing to new ambitious targets and investment into wind power to accelerate our progress towards net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. billion) of government investment will trigger another £36 billion in private money by 2030, it claims. .'s The £12 billion ($16.1

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Creation of a new UK Seas Authority and appointment of a Minister for the North Sea among measures that could ensure efficient and environmentally responsible planning of clean energy technologies in area key to UK’s successful net zero transition, Policy Exchange argues. The North Sea is absolutely central to that whole mission.".

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2023

Climate and energy were again high on the agenda at the recent G7 Summit following a record year of investment in clean energy. The investment isn’t simply an emissions imperative, it’s also an economic one. Budget 2023 included investment tax credits for carbon capture and clean hydrogen.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

New report from Green Finance Institute identifies barriers to investment in green heating systems and trails series of new demonstration projects. A range of innovative new policies and financial products are to be debuted over the next year in a bid to make it easier for households and businesses to deploy zero emission heating systems.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Major gaps in the UK's infrastructure plans compounded by a severe lack of public investment in key areas must be urgently addressed if the government is to avoid locking in environmentally damaging economic activity long into the future, Green Alliance has today warned.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plans for 'comprehensive' policy document that sets out pathway to net zero emission economy confirmed in government's formal response to CCC's latest progress report. But in its 156-page response to the CCC's 'bumper' progress report , the government yesterday confirmed a raft of new deacrbonisation strategies are on the way.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

Covid-19 has hit manufacturing hard, but with government policy support there is now a big opportunity to accelerate decarbonisation, argues Make UK's Frank Aaskov. The government must now set out what major strategic investments will be made in the next decade to place us on the road to net zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new analysis highlights the increasing availability of low cost capital for net zero technology and infrastructure, but calls for a clearer policy framework to attract it. 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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

Public and private sectors are investing billions in technologies to decarbonize Canada’s industrial production to reach climate goals. A new Clean Energy Canada white paper explores ways to cut emissions from this overlooked industry. This post was co-authored by Rachel Doran and originally appeared in Policy Options.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Carbon tax could generate £75bn by 2030 that could be investing into Covid-19 recovery efforts, emerging green technologies, and cushioning against any rise in household bills, campaign group argues.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But to find out how many of them will actually turn into decisions, we will have to wait until the even longer-heralded Energy White Paper appears - hopefully - later this month. There is even a rumour that the Green Investment Bank it sold so precipitously will return under a new name. It is a plan. It will have ten points.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The analysis also highlights how a new generation of nuclear projects could underpin other green industries by enabling the production of low carbon hydrogen and other fuels while also supporting district heating projects through the deployment of local small modular reactors (SMRs).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But BloombergNEF analysis highlights gaping holes where supportive policies are needed to spur widespread decarbonisation towards net zero. However, action from policy makers will be needed if these changes are to happen.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

With over a fifth of our heat to come from heat networks by 2050, these infrastructure investments will become just as recognisable as HS2 and Hinkley. And you won't need to wait for the golden era of hydrogen to emerge either to take up a green-collar job today in our decarbonising industrial clusters. A lot of money.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

Without a strong carbon price, older renewable and nuclear plant will close earlier than they should and investment in new low carbon infrastructure like Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS), hydrogen and negative emissions technologies will stall. This Budget is a real opportunity to show leadership on carbon pricing.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. The investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy," said Stark. "So said Chris Stark, CEO of the Committee.

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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. But the investor was undeterred.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The current high gas prices have highlighted the need to invest in technologies which can store power as part of building a more resilient, renewables-based system which can wean us off fossil fuels. Yonna Vitanova is senior policy analyst at clean energy trade association RenewableUK.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Meeting the goal will therefore require significant policy intervention, governance changes and investment to accelerate decarbonisation across the economy, with gas boilers, heavy industry, and fossil fuelled transport in particular likely to require significant changes if the target is to be met.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

These range from the promise of proposed solutions such as carbon capture and “renewable biogas,” to the role the industry claims to be playing in the energy transition, despite its persistently low investments in anything other than increased fossil fuel production. and Europe.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is not every day that you find that the UK's biggest business group, most influential trade union bosses, seasoned policy experts, and protestors blocking motorway junctions are in broad agreement. It made for damning reading.

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