Weekly column by EUA's Chief Executive
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29
Mar
29th Mar 2021
As the debate around differing technology options hots up, politicians and regulators need to step into the fray and decide exactly who i...
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22
Mar
22nd Mar 2021
Politicians get a bad press. As a recovering one, I have a degree of sympathy for them regardless of which Party they represent. One of t...
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15
Mar
Whose rules are we playing by?
15th Mar 2021
When I first started work, a colleague was asked to timetable his day, and for a sizeable chunk he wrote “thinking time”. Now...
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8
Mar
Budget word search comes up short
8th Mar 2021
Technology makes desk-top research easy. You simply open a document, such as the Treasury Red Book, type ‘ctrl F’ and search...
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1
Mar
It needs repeating – again and again and again
1st Mar 2021
There’s a well-known political figure, let’s call him Bobby, who famously made the claim that “It is only when you&rsqu...
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22
Feb
Climate change isn’t a game, it’s deadly serious.
22nd Feb 2021
You can’t have helped but notice that we’ve had a proper winter this year. Low temperatures, snow, ice in fact, the works. Ac...
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15
Feb
15th Feb 2021
Dropping into my inbox last week came a great offer – “Get a new boiler under the Green Homes Grant” with costs of up t...
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8
Feb
If a carbon tax is your weapon of choice, wield it carefully
8th Feb 2021
Last week we saw media reports that the Government were looking more proactively at a carbon tax –across a whole range of products...
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1
Feb
Tone deaf to the needs of real people?
1st Feb 2021
Last week I witnessed a senior executive from an energy supplier call for gas prices to be increased, artificially higher than now, to fo...
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25
Jan
25th Jan 2021
After the inauguration of President Joe Biden, (I just love saying that phrase), it is fitting I use the words of American soul singer Sa...
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18
Jan
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11
Jan
It couldn’t happen here, could it?
11th Jan 2021
Firstly, Happy New Year. Let’s hope by the time I write that phrase again Covid will be just a horrible nightmare that we are all g...
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21
Dec
21st Dec 2020
Well, we are all going to remember 2020 for years to come. And like most people, I’ll be glad to see the back of it.
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14
Dec
Climate advisors, naive or malign?
14th Dec 2020
Let’s start with the stark facts. I voted for the Climate Change Act in Parliament that set the world’s first carbon reductio...
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7
Dec
Have anti-gas fundamentalists lost the plot?
7th Dec 2020
Last week we had two positive announcements from Ofgem in the form of the Network Innovation Competition successful bids examining the ro...
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30
Nov
30th Nov 2020
As the world was coming out of the economic ruin of the banking crisis, former US President Bill Clinton wrote a book “Back to Work...
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23
Nov
Ten-point plan, something for everybody
23rd Nov 2020
Whoever thought announcing a 10-point plan at 10.30pm was a good idea? Made worse because the detail didn’t follow until the day af...
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16
Nov
16th Nov 2020
There’s an age old adage for politicians, “never blame the voters”, that applies equally to the US as it does in the UK...
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9
Nov
Net Zero can’t make our lives worse
9th Nov 2020
To make Net Zero a reality, the consumer experience has to be positive, or at least no worse than the current one.
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2
Nov
A Whitehall secret – let’s start spreading the news
2nd Nov 2020
Buried in the bowels of Whitehall are a number of committees, advisory bodies, special councils, all with the remit of helping the govern...
Mike Foster
EUA's Chief Executive
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