'Green will be the colour of the zeitgeist': Why Dale Vince is backing Labour

Cecilia Keating
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'Green will be the colour of the zeitgeist': Why Dale Vince is backing Labour

The green entrepreneur sits down with BusinessGreen to talk gas from grass, Great British Energy, and why he fears the national heat pump programme could be 'ULEZ on steroids'

Clean energy entrepreneur Dale Vince is feeling energised by the upcoming general election. "We're on the cusp of possibly seeing a change in everything, through a new government which gets the green economy,"...

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