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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

Solar

Court of Appeal rejects DECC's solar subsidy appeal - the reaction

BusinessGreen runs down the industry's reaction to today's ruling rejecting government plans to impose retrospective cuts to solar feed-in tariffs

clock 25 January 2012 •

Solar

Solar feed-in tariff appeal judgment set for tomorrow

DECC refuses to rule out further legal action if crucial court decision goes against it

clock 24 January 2012 •

Wind

Glyndebourne raises curtain on new wind turbine

Opera house becomes first UK arts organisation to generate its own power using large scale wind turbine

clock 24 January 2012 •

Infrastructure

Ofgem speeds up £7bn plan to rewire low-carbon Scotland

SSE and Scottish Power plans to upgrade grid could boost the green energy sector

clock 24 January 2012 • 2 min read

Wind

REpower to upgrade Blyth wind farm with UK's biggest turbine yet

Giant 3.4M104 wind turbine confirmed as first of seven to replace 20-year-old technology at Blyth Harbour

clock 24 January 2012 •

Wind

US health experts dismiss "Wind Turbine Syndrome"

Massachusetts study finds wind turbines can be annoying but do not directly cause health problems

clock 23 January 2012 •

Biomass

Sky prepares big switchover to biomass power

Studio to commission Turboden CCHP plant at the end of the month, providing up to 40 per cent of site's energy

clock 17 January 2012 • 3 min read

Wind

MoD radar breakthrough promises green light to 4GW of wind farms

Ministry of Defence confirms it has tried and tested "wind farm friendly radars"

clock 16 January 2012 •

Recycling

Wales already on brink of 50 per cent recycling target

New figures show homes and businesses recycled 49 per cent of their waste last summer

clock 16 January 2012 •

Energy

Malaby Biogas grabs first £800,000 AD loan from Defra

WRAP urges anaerobic digestion developers to apply for loans of up to £1m to build new green gas plants

clock 13 January 2012 •