Is Britain's grid connection system hindering the shift to greener industry?

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Report warns lack of clarity on costs, timelines, and logistics for connecting factories to the power grid and is causing some firms to abandon electrification plans and remain reliant on fossil gas

Decarbonising heavy industrial manufacturing has long been viewed as one of the UK's top challenges if it is to achieve net zero goals. But while technologies and economies of scale have increasingly offered...

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