This government has taken its foot off the throttle and the world has noticed.
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The country is missing a strong and strategic coalition of pro-climate interest groups, says research.
Household gas and electricity bills aren’t the only way that expensive energy hits your budget.
Can the prime minister unite his warring party around a new energy department? It feels unlikely.
A departmental redesign is useful, but progress still depends on political will.
It would level the playing field and promote equitable access to low-carbon energy for all.
And it’s because France had to shut many of its nuclear plants.
An influential group of the UK prime minister’s own backbenchers want more wind farms.
A third of people we surveyed incorrectly thought there was a £2,500 cap on energy bills.
There never was a ‘maximum bill of £2,500’.
A successful marketing campaign helped gas become a cornerstone of domestic life by the 1970s.
Financial turmoil will make it harder to invest in climate action on a massive scale.
A state-owned start-up to promote renewables must be only a first step towards energy justice.
Fracking resonates with anxieties over deindustrialisation and decarbonisation.
Britain was once sat on huge gas reserves, but most of it leaked away long ago.
Gas that is burned now to replace German coal or French nuclear, is gas that cannot be stored for the winter ahead.
Energy rationing is possible but unlikely.
An energy expert compares the political party policies.
The cap prevents energy retailers from making excessive profits, but places no restrictions on other parts of the supply chain.
The new energy security strategy still doesn’t take energy efficiency seriously.
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