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

MARCH 10, 2023

Next week's Budget will feature a wide-ranging new clean energy package designed to mobilise £20bn of investment in the UK, Treasury confirms The Chancellor will next week promise to "reset" the UK's decarbonisation and energy security plans through an "unprecedented" £20bn investment in carbon capture and clean energy infrastructure.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reiterated the government's commitment to delivering on the UK's international climate responsibilities, confirming support for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant, announcing a new long-term target for UK energy efficiency, and promising continued investment in clean tech innovation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

He said the creation of the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was "a pretty clear guide or indication" the government would be moving ahead with plans for a Great British Nuclear (GBN) agency to help identify new sites for nuclear power plants and support their development, adding that an announcement was likely in the coming weeks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. Truss ally Iain Duncan Smith told The Times the package was likely to cost in the region of £90bn, while other reports put the estimated cost at £100bn and Bloomberg reported the total cost could reach £130bn.

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The private investment will come if the revenue mechanism is right. Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. billion) of investment, previously announced. is backing early-stage investment in maritime with a £20 million innovation competition.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

That is the stark warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which today published sweeping proposals detailing how governments could help mobilise $1tr a year of investment in clean technologies and infrastructure over the next three years, averting a global depression and slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the process.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The Chancellor is expected to announce a flurry of fresh fiscal and planning policies in his so-called mini-Budget tomorrow, in response to inflation which has risen to its highest level in almost four decades, prompting growing concern about the risks of the UK economy dipping into recession in the coming months.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Against this sobering backdrop, political leaders are scrambling for policy fixes to try and mimimise the looming economic storm. Separately, the Truss campaign this weekend sought to offer further assurances that it was working on plans for a substantial new support package to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy bills.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

However, the think tank stressed that "it could have been worse" and that the growth in renewables capacity helped to prevent a much larger rise in coal-fired power use across Europe last year. Europe's clean power transition emerges from this crisis stronger than ever," said Jones.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The much-delayed package includes a new £450m grant scheme to encourage households to switch to heat pumps and other low carbon heating systems, £60m of innovation funding to help drive down the cost of heat pump technologies, and a goal to end the installation of conventional gas boilers by 2035. But this is just the beginning.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Major new report urges government to provide clarity on nuclear development plans and insists sector can bring down costs - but will Ministers be convinced? The intervention comes at a critical time for the UK's nuclear industry. We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 But it isn't.".

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But with the UK now facing major competitive threats from the US, EU, China, and others as they all step up efforts to attract global green investment, the Chancellor was under huge pressure to deliver far more than just stability. Hunt said the move would help encourage more private backing for the UK's ambitious atomic energy plans.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mingomba could drive further investment in what might eventually become a major copper supplier. 📦 Voidless , a Milan, Italy-based on-demand packaging solutions platform, raised $2m in Seed funding from 360 Capital and CDP Venture Capital. Mineral ambitions. Why is this important now?  Can’t get enough deals?

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

As the Chancellor puts the finishing touches to this week's mini-Budget and Number 10 looks to finalise drafts of its Energy Security Strategy, speculation is mounting as to whether net zero policies will be centred or sidelined in the UK's economic response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the cost of living crisis it has further exacerbated.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. We need an industrial strategy that removes barriers to investment.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Britain is the country that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution, split the atom and turned on the first commercial nuclear power station. Readily available investment is impossible to deploy in the UK because the grid system was just not built for a renewable revolution," he added. "We

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Prior media reports suggested the government had intended to badge all of its announcements under the banner of 'Green Day', but instead it appears to have gone with the name 'Powering Up Britain', evidently keen to place as much focus as possible on energy security issues.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Climate tech venture capital dropped 40% in H1’23 but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green, with at least $33B of investable dry powder ready to deploy in climate tech startups. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results. ❄️ Macro market cools climate tech venture.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth".

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

However, with calls growing for European governments to impose sanctions on fossil fuel exports from Russia in response to the latest atrocities in Ukraine, campaigners slammed the proposed package of measures arguing that it was badly underpowered and would "do nothing to help the UK get off Russian gas this year". this summer.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

The main policy announcement briefed to the press ahead of the speech was a plan to make school pupils learn maths right through to age 18, a tweak to the curriculum which risked further fuelling accusations that the PM is out of touch with the inflation, strikes, and crumbling public services that are currently ravaging economic confidence.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Announcing plans to approve the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant, increase energy efficiency funding from 2025, and retain clean tech R&D budgets, Hunt said the UK would continue to pursue energy independence as it strives to deliver on its climate goals. Today was more about raising money than spending it.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 9, 2021

Heather Zichal, CEO of the American Clean Power Association, said the findings and recommendations from the IPCC report must drive negotiations in Congress over the bipartisan infrastructure package and budget reconciliation. economy and support nearly 1 million direct jobs and reduce U.S. carbon emissions by over 60 percent.”.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Companies need to be informed as new policies are enacted across the globe and ensure their practices abide by these changes. Many businesses have faced instability and uncertainty over the last few years from the combined impact of shifts in power, the U.K.’s Waste management policy and regulation in the U.S. In the U.K.,

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

When the legislation passed, progressives on the New York City Council called the package of bills “the largest single carbon-reduction effort that any city, anywhere, has ever put forward.” “The policy intention is the worst-emitting 20 percent of the buildings have to act first,” said Mandyck.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

But what policies do experts think shuold feature to the government’s upcoming Energy Security Strategy and Spring Statement? And today, E3G details how there are major savings to be made if Ministers leverage existing policies and mechanisms to reduce business and household demand for energy. It was a glaring omission.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

This included a £20bn package to support carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), a renewed focus on nuclear (including the decision to reclassify it as environmentally sustainable) and a refresh of the Control for Low Carbon Levies mechanism on energy policy costs.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour Leader Keir Starmer clashed over the UK's energy policy at Prime Minister's Questions this lunchtime, trading barbs over who precisely was to blame for soaring domestic energy bills and the country's suddenly worrying reliance on imported fossil fuels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Originally trailed at a 'mini-Budget' designed to tackle the looming economic crisis facing the UK, the statement went far further than taxation and other fiscal measures, setting out broader plans to streamline planning rules with the aim of boosting investment, housebuilding, and jobs. Planning reform is long overdue.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Offshore wind, nuclear, and oil and gas may all have received supportive new policies, but observers have warned these sectors will take years to bring new projects online and will prove more expensive than the onshore renewables and efficiency projects that could help cut gas imports over the next two years.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Boris Johnson has today delivered one of his final speeches before stepping down as Prime Minister, travelling to the Sizewell nuclear plant in Suffolk to confirm that the government is to invest £700m in plans to build a new reactor at the site. We have the fiscal firepower to sort it out," he said. "We

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

trillion federal spending and tax extension package negotiated by congressional leaders over the weekend alongside a $900 billion coronavirus relief package. Utility-scale solar power is already cost-competitive against coal-fired power across the world and with natural-gas-fired power in many markets.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Join us for a webinar Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 investment trends, insights, and discussion. 🔋 NineDot Energy , a Brooklyn, NY-based energy storage developer, raised $225m in funding from Manulife Investment Management and Carlyle. Hawaii replaced its final coal-powered facility with a 565 MWh battery.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

GTM’s launch coincided with a boom in venture capital investment in clean technology that peaked one year later, and then crashed with the global recession and the unraveling of venture investors’ biggest bad bets in thin-film solar and biofuels. Looking back, it all seems inevitable.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

American Jobs Plan promises massive wave of new investment in clean energy generation, grids, electric vehicles, and green buildings. Biden pledges to deliver 'once-in-a-generation investment' in clean infrastructure. It is a once-in-a-generation investment in America.".

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