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The UK is committed, under the 2008 Climate Change Act, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 80% (from the 1990 baseline) by 2050. Significantly reducing GHG emissions from the energy sector by 2030 is considered to be a critical first step towards meeting this target. A more efficie...
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The Energy and Climate Change Committee published its Third Report of Session 2016–17, The energy revolution and future challenges for UK energy and climate change policy (HC 705), on 15 October 2016. The Government’s response was received by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on...
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This document reports on the Department’s achievements against its priorities for 2014 to 2015.
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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been developed to set out the detail of how the three organisations: BEIS, Ofgem and HM Treasury will work together. This sets out roles and responsibilities for these organisations and establishes a co-ordination framework, information sharing and communicati...
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Barack Obama has nominated Nobel Prize winner Dr Steven Chu as his Secretary of Energy. Chu, the current director of the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) has been credited as an early advocate for finding solutions to climate change. Under his guidance LBNL ha...
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Housing Minister Margaret Beckett has set out the Government’s consultation process on the details of how it will meet its target for making all new homes zero carbon from 2016. With more than 25% of the UK's carbon emissions produced by housing, and with the Government committed to reducing carbon ...
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The UK Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the government is to give the go ahead to Chinese companies taking a stake – including potential future majority stakes – in the development of the next generation of UK nuclear power. He made the announcement at Taishan nuclear power station in so...
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House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has published “Consumer-funded energy policies” report. Key recommendations: - The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) significantly underestimated the costs of the three Framework schemes. BEIS did not do enough to ensure it...
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Three major pieces of legislation expected to help facilitate the UK’s transition to a low carbon, energy secure economy have received Royal Assent. The three pieces of legislation; the Climate Change, Energy and Planning Bills will be ‘instrumental in reducing carbon emissions, removing barriers to...
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