During his Spring Statement on Wednesday 13 March, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond announced that the government is to introduce a Future Homes Standard to end fossil-fuel heating in all new houses from 2025. He said: “The government is determined that we will be the first generation to leave…
During a hearing of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (BEIS) Committee, witnesses urged the government to make household energy efficiency a national infrastructure project. In an evidence session held on Tuesday 12 March, the BEIS Committee heard E3G Associate Director Ed Matthew call for energy efficiency to be…
The government has been urged to do more to decarbonise transport. A hearing by the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee was held on Tuesday 26 February, with MPs asking officials from the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership and ChargePoint how the UK could meet…
The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has heard from carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) experts and industry figures who warned that the government is not being ambitious enough with its CCUS implementation plans. In the hearing on Thursday 17 January, Dr Geraint Evans, CATCH Advisor, told Stephen…
MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee have been told by industry experts that technologies to decarbonise the UK economy should urgently be tested at scale if the fourth and fifth carbon budgets are to be met. The committee held an evidence session on Tuesday 15 January…
The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee published on Friday 11 January the government’s response to the committee’s Electric Vehicles: Driving the Transition report and criticised the government’s electric vehicle (EV) policy for having a “lack of ambition”. The Committee had proposed moving the 2040 end of conventional car…
Rachel Reeves, Chair of the Commons BEIS Committee has written to Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry to call for clarity on the government’s future ambitions for the deployment of carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS). The letter, released on Tuesday 27 November, noted that CCUS infrastructure will only…
The BEIS Committee and the Welsh Affairs Committee held the first of two planned joint evidence sessions to scrutinise the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project decision making process on Wednesday 9 May. Chief Executive of developer Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP), Mark Shorrock conceded that if the project had a 35-year…