Weekly column by EUA's Chief Executive
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21
Jun
21st Jun 2021
When it comes to achieving Net Zero, what are the UK’s three priorities? Well, I think I gave a clue in the title, but how we deliv...
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14
Jun
Eye-spy with my Private Eye, something beginning with ‘H’.
14th Jun 2021
I guess a number of you are familiar with the satirical magazine Private Eye, and I reckon if there was a copy lying around in a waiting...
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7
Jun
Treasury limbering up for return to normal
7th Jun 2021
Last week we saw COVID recovery in education thrust into the spotlight. An independent report, commissioned by the Prime Minister, advoca...
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24
May
Soviet-style production planning is back
24th May 2021
A few months ago, I heard a crazy idea that the Government were thinking about, wrote about it in my blog but didn’t seriously thin...
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17
May
17th May 2021
You may know that EUA is working with Carbon Connect to pull together a paper on how to deliver Net Zero in the UK. The paper looks at go...
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10
May
10th May 2021
During the past few weeks a stalwart band of individuals have been knocking doors, come rain or shine (this year snow and shine) as part...
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26
Apr
Is a cliche I know, but a great way to decarbonise is to use less energy
26th Apr 2021
In the heated debate over which fuel to use to heat buildings, residential and non-domestic, a key policy area is often overlooked and th...
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19
Apr
19th Apr 2021
We’re in for a spell of warmer weather, Spring is definitely here and with outdoor Covid rules, dusting off the BBQ seems a great i...
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12
Apr
A lesson from local government
12th Apr 2021
You may have noticed that campaigning is taking place for the local government elections – the 2020 postponed elections as well as...
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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
Mike Foster
EUA's Chief Executive
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