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Posts Tagged: Electricity

Ted Christie-Miller: Everything must change if Britain is to hit its Net Zero target. How are we going to manage it?

If politicians are going to take voters with them, we need to be honest about the trade offs and develop policies to help those who stand to lose out.

By Ted Christie-Miller | 5 January 2021 | 25 comments

The Deal in Detail 4) The environment and energy

The fourth of a series of pieces from Policy Exchange looking at specific issues that arise from the Brexit trade deal.

By Benedict McAleenan and Ed Birkett | 31 December 2020 | 21 comments

John Redwood: Why we would be better off with No Deal

Here’s how can now use our freedoms as we leave – assuming there is no last-minute wish to be sensible by the EU and agree a free trade deal.

By Sir John Redwood MP | 14 December 2020 | 132 comments

Neil O’Brien: The plans we must make now to ensure that our ship doesn’t hit the rocks

These are my starters for ten – so it’s over to you. What are the biggest choices? What are the problems that we have to get ahead of to keep afloat?

By Neil O Brien MP | 16 November 2020 | 107 comments

Simon Clarke: Electric heat – the oven-ready renewable that’s right under our noses

Action on decarbonising heat so far is not nearly sufficient to meet our 2050 net zero target. But a potential solution is right under our noses.

By Simon Clarke MP | 13 November 2020 | 58 comments

Rob Sutton: Conservatives have abandoned free market principles in the quest for environmentalism

In trying to appease climate catastrophists, they run the risk of undermining a key pillar of their own ideology.

By Dr Rob Sutton | 27 October 2020 | 61 comments

Robert Halfon: We should be pro-private enterprise, anti-mega corporates – which plunder the taxpayer again and again

Plus: Let’s cut VAT on energy bill as soon as we leave transition – deal or no deal. And: first Ardern, then Biden?

By Robert Halfon MP | 21 October 2020 | 34 comments

The EU trade talks. Whether there’s a deal or not, we will be out of transition soon. Ministers should be ready to make the most of it.

The Government should be mulling some quick Brexit wins come the New Year – ways of using freedoms that we don’t have during implementation.

By Paul Goodman | 18 October 2020 | 210 comments

Ryan Bourne: Johnson’s green jobs. Subsidy-reliant, expensive, price-raising. And a job loser elsewhere.

We should judge the desirability of a pro-wind energy policy by the social value added, not the numbers employed in the sector.

By Ryan Bourne | 14 October 2020 | 31 comments

Rachel Wolf: Net Zero risks upending our lives and livelihoods. Here’s why carbon pricing gives it a better chance of working.

It doesn’t make grand predictions about what will work or what we should do. It just prices in the ‘bad’ – in this case, emissions.

By Rachel Wolf | 2 October 2020 | 42 comments

Ruth Edwards: It’s time to accelerate the roll out of electric vehicles

After more than a century on the road, our automotive industry is overdue for a completely new engine.

By Ruth Edwards MP | 22 August 2020 | 253 comments

Ryan Bourne: “Levelling the playing field” is no argument for an online sales tax

Wind and nuclear power both produce electricity. But if someone said we needed a tax on wind power to subsidise nuclear, you’d think they were mad.

By Ryan Bourne | 5 August 2020 | 33 comments

Tony Lodge: Britain’s creaking, outdated energy system has been exposed by this crisis. It’s time for a greener future.

While the pandemic has been challenging for the National Grid, it also presents the perfect opportunity for change.

By Tony Lodge | 9 June 2020 | 85 comments

Tony Lodge: Britain’s dirty emissions secret – carbon leakage. Here’s what it is and how to tackle it.

We must now consider targeting particular carbon intensive goods and power supplies which are imported and carry a large transport and transmission footprint.

By Tony Lodge | 10 February 2020 | 34 comments

Andy Street: The spending round must be about generating money as well as allocating it

The UK needs a state-of-the-art ‘gigafactory’, and it should be built here in the West Midlands alongside our established automotive cluster.

By Andy Street | 10 September 2019 | 46 comments

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