The need for real energy market reform

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Labour's Baroness Worthington argues that if renewable generators are to compete in the energy market in the long term, we need to call time on vertically-integrated suppliers

The curious thing about the Government's Energy Bill is that for all the talk of it reforming the energy market, in reality it is not about that at all. There are reforms in there of course, but they...

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