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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

Facilities

DECC reveals fresh details for port funding programme

Department of Energy and Climate Change scraps competition in favour of longer-term funding round

clock 27 October 2010 • 2 min read

Facilities

Wind turbine market blamed as Skykon files for insolvency

Wind turbine manufacturer says Scottish factory may not be hit

clock 26 October 2010 • 2 min read

Facilities

Mitsubishi latest to reaffirm plan for UK wind turbine facility

Japanese giant hints that it always planned to go ahead with £100m wind turbine R&D facility regardless of port funding decision

clock 26 October 2010 • 1 min read

Facilities

Siemens gives green light to UK wind turbine factory

Manufacturer confirms it will move ahead with new facility after government promises to retain port upgrade programme

clock 25 October 2010 • 2 min read

Technology

Updated: Siemens secures major deal to work on Masdar's green city

Wide-ranging deal expected to be worth close to €100m

clock 19 October 2010 • 2 min read

Energy

Vattenfall scraps Thanet wind farm extension

Swedish utility cancels 147MW addition to world's largest offshore wind farm, but signals support for neighbouring project

clock 18 October 2010 • 2 min read

Technology

Walkers potato crisps to get potato packet

PepsiCo hopes to start making Walkers packets from unused potato starch within 18 months as it ditches Sun Chips compostable bag

clock 09 October 2010 • 2 min read

Energy

Gamesa nears final decision on British offshore turbine plant

Spanish wind turbine manufacturer hopes to reach decision on prospective UK investment by the end of October

clock 07 October 2010 • 2 min read

Technology

Gamesa and Northrop team up to build giant 5MW offshore turbine

Spanish wind giant reaches agreement with US naval ship builder to work on prototype offshore turbine, as EU countries move forward with plans for North Sea grid

clock 07 October 2010 • 2 min read

Climate change

The not quite dummies guide to climate change

The Royal Society's updated basic guide to climate change provides a great insight for any business executive wanting to understand the latest science

clock 05 October 2010 •