How cutting red tape in the energy system could accelerate UK's low-carbon transition

Madeleine Cuff
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Complex bureaucracy is stifling innovation in the UK's energy system, argues Policy Exchange

The complexity of Britain's energy landscape has ballooned in recent years as successive governments have created new policies, regulatory bodies, and codes of conduct to try and control the UK's rapidly...

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