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Seven ideas to save UK's faltering energy efficiency drive

Jocelyn Timperley
clock 28 April 2016 •
Seven ideas to save UK's faltering energy efficiency drive

Policy Connect's latest report sets out recommendations for how to transform the UK's increasingly moribund energy efficiency market into a major decarbonisation initiative

The energy efficiency sector has faced an extremely challenging six months, as a whole host of government policies focused on boosting the efficiency of the UK's draughty housing stock have either been...

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