The policy announcements came in speech by Johnson to launch a “Year of Climate Action” ahead of the UN COP 26 climate change conference, to be held in November in Glasgow.
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When chancellor George Osborne launched the National Infrastructure Commission in the autumn of last year, it had been a long time coming.
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The PwC report – ‘Charging Ahead’ – says that, as low carbon policies continue to gain momentum, these have been accompanied with a number of high profile industry and government announcements. These include a pledge of over £500 million in the Autumn budget to support charging research and a national charging network. while several large private companies, including Shell and Southern Rail, are planning investments in EV charging operations.
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Storm Desmond caused widespread damage and disruption and the loss of power to 55,000 people in Lancaster and Morecambe after floodwater breached flood defences which were installed to withstand a ‘once-in-100-year’ floods and more than 13,000 homes and businesses in Cumbria.
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A year ago the future dominance of electric vehicles would have been regarded by many as an “if” not “when”. But in the interim we have had a conveyor belt of announcements by automotive manufacturers, governments and even petrochemical companies with hard commitments to this agenda. The debate has now flipped to one of how quickly this transition will now occur. The mid 20s are talked of as the boom time, but with EV battery capacity rising at an extraordinary rate and the choice of vehicles increasing almost monthly, this could come sooner. EV affordability is also much less of an issue than most people appreciate as in the region of 90 per cent of new EVs are “bought” on surprisingly competitive personal lease deals.
Ireland Power, the sister event to the largest water conference in Ireland, Ireland Water, brings all the essential stakeholders together to address the economic, regulatory and environmental challenges facing the sector.
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“The costs of carbon capture and storage must come down if it is to play a part in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK’s economy.”
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Cloud computing is big business. Amazon’s AWS division, the industry’s largest cloud provider, is fast approaching the $10 billion mark in annual revenue, earned by selling computing capacity to businesses and public sector organisations around the world.
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The event took place on Thursday (26 September) evening at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool with more than 350 guests from the utilities sector and innovation community attending the glittering ceremony, which was organised by the EIC.
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The gas emergency and pipeline service for Wales and the south west of England has seen a huge growth in demand for power station connections to its gas network since 2013 and the event was held to share best practice from viewpoint of both a gas distribution network (GDN) and developers.
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