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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

Management

Water pressure mounts on businesses as Ofwat confirms price hike

Watchdog urges businesses to contact suppliers to find out how they will be affected by £22bn programme of investments

clock 31 January 2012 •

Management

Retailers pledge to check out "stretching green goals"

British Retail Consortium report finds brands such as Debenhams and Asda are on track to meeting environmental targets

clock 31 January 2012 •

Wind

Wind energy enjoys gale force boost to power output

Met Office reveals UK winds were 16 per cent stronger last year than in 2010

clock 30 January 2012 •

Investment

Green energy market should not be scared of "rolling uncertainty", says PwC

New report predicts unstable year for renewable energy market but finds mergers and acquisitions rose 40 per cent in 2011

clock 30 January 2012 •

Buildings

Government insists green school building requirement could yet survive

Department for Education says it is considering streamlining green building standard rather than scrapping it

clock 27 January 2012 •

Solar

Updated: Solar sector split after trade body backs DECC feed-in tariff appeal

Solarcentury resigns from BPVA as minister confirms cuts to tariffs will lead to job losses

clock 27 January 2012 •

Solar

Huhne warns solar firms not to promote higher feed-in tariff

Energy Secretary defends decision to take solar fight to Supreme Court after DECC reveals its legal costs have reached £66,000

clock 26 January 2012 •

Carbon Accounting

Firms unsure of legal duty to report emissions

A third of companies are unsure of their legal obligations to report carbon emissions and 58 per cent have never heard the term “carbon accounting”

clock 26 January 2012 •

Buildings

Is the writing on the wall for green school buildings?

UK Green Building Council and Aldersgate Group urge Education Secretary not to scrap BREEAM requirement for new schools

clock 26 January 2012 •

Solar

Amplio secures €16m bank finance for Italian solar growth

Leading green energy investor reveals how it ditched UK solar plans following cuts to feed-in tariff

clock 26 January 2012 •