Has the government failed to spark an energy efficiency revolution?

Jessica Shankleman
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New CBI report calls for Energy Efficiency Deployment Office to live up to its name

One of the first things Ed Davey did when he replaced Chris Huhne as Energy and Climate Change Secretary last year was to launch, with considerable a fanfare, the EEDO, or to give it its full name, the...

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