'Damaging': Renewables sector slams proposed Ofgem energy network reforms

Michael Holder
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Plans to reduce embedded benefit payments for small power generators risks undermining rollout of clean, cheap and flexible energy grid, warn critics

The UK renewables sector has responded angrily to the outcome of an Ofgem review aimed at reforming the electricity network, with green energy figures claiming the regulator's proposals amount to a "trashing...

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