Leadsom gets top job at BEIS
Leadsom succeeds Greg Clark, who had held the position for three years, but was relieved of his duties by new Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this evening.
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Clark leaves BEIS
His colleague Claire Perry has also left the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) following the arrival of new prime minister Boris Johnson.
Cave confirmed as Ofgem chair
He will take up his position on 1 October.
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Cave selected as preferred candidate to be next Ofgem chairman
Greg Clark, the secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, selected the former deputy chair of the Competition Commission and deputy panel chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to lead the energy regulator.
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Call for major overhaul of UK’s energy sector
Building on the government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper, Professor Dieter Helm CBE was asked in August to consider the whole electricity supply chain of generation, transmission, distribution and supply.
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Britain’s electric grid goes coal-free for a week
The last coal generator came off the system at 1.24pm on Wednesday (1 May) – meaning the ESO reached a week with no coal at 1.24pm yesterday (Wednesday 8 May).
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BEIS unveils £80m EV investment
The funding, which is coming through the Industrial Strategy, will also be used to develop new hybrid aircraft.
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£1bn ‘energy superhighway’ gets royal opening
National Grid has recently flicked the switch to energise over 200km of high voltage electricity cables carried inside a network of 32km of tunnels as part of a seven-year project to rewire the capital.
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