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Jessica Shankleman

Jessica Shankleman

Deputy Editor

Jessica Shankleman joined the company as a reporter in 2010 and left December 2015. 

She regularly took responsibility for BusinessGreen's leading news and analysis as well as managing the site's content hubs.

Jessica is a leading commentator in the low carbon sector, writing for the Guardian as well as appearing on BBC World News, Radio 4 and Al Jazeera to discuss business and environment issues.

She produces a wide range of news and analysis for BusinessGreen, focusing on issues including project finance, energy, technology and supply chain management. She also contributes to much of BusinessGreen's multimedia and data visualisation content.

Jessica is an award-winning journalist who prior to joining BusinessGreen worked for renewable energy industry magazine reNews.

She qualified from Cardiff University in 2009 with a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism. While there, she won an NCTJ Top Scoop Award for Excellence in Journalism for an exclusive story on the discovery of an unencrypted memory stick containing confidential child protection information.

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Articles by Jessica Shankleman

Wind

DONG Energy gives green light to world's largest offshore wind farm

Walney 3 extension project will be the first to feature Siemens 7MW wind turbines

clock 29 October 2015 •

Infrastructure

Why Kingfisher wants George Osborne to make energy saving an infrastructure priority

BusinessGreen meets Richard Gilles, head of sustainability for Europe's largest home improvement retailer, to discuss the impact of UK and global green policies

clock 29 October 2015 •

Marketing

B&Q to promote Paris climate talks with LED discounts

DIY retail giant to harness public engagement with COP21 Summit to encourage customers to buy energy saving goods

clock 29 October 2015 •

Policy

Richest London boroughs face growing flood risk

New Mayor of London action plan aims to make sustainable drainage measures the norm by 2040 as Thames Water announces £20m of fresh funding

clock 29 October 2015 • 3 min read

Investment

Aquamarine Power calls in administrators to aid hunt for fresh investment

Edinburgh-based wave energy company appoints administrators BDO to lead search for new investment

clock 28 October 2015 •

Investment

BlackRock reveals how it could make it easier for investors to ditch fossil fuels

The world's largest asset manager is considering launching a fossil fuel free fund, as Prince of Wales warns about potential impact of climate change on investments

clock 28 October 2015 •

Policy

UK aims to relax emissions rules for steel factories in bid to help crisis-hit industry

Department for Business says it hopes to give steel industry more time to meet Industrial Emissions Directive rules

clock 27 October 2015 •

Infrastructure

Why energy storage is critical to avoiding blackout risks and boosting green energy

New report from Institute of Civil Engineers urges government to cut red tape and boost incentives for emerging power storage market

clock 27 October 2015 •

Solar

Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project

World's largest concentrated solar power plant, powered by the Saharan sun, set to help renewables provide almost half the country's energy by 2020

clock 26 October 2015 •

Automotive

Paris climate summit delegates to travel zero emissions-style in electric fleet

Renault-Nissan Alliance confirms it will provide 200 electric vehicles for high profile COP 21 meeting

clock 26 October 2015 •