'Kick polluting fossil fuels off the energy grid': UK businesses call for 2035 net zero power target

Cecilia Keating
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Roughly a third of the UK's electricity is provided by wind power | Credit: iStock
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Roughly a third of the UK's electricity is provided by wind power | Credit: iStock

BT, Thames Water, Co-op, WSP and Nestlé UK among 13 firms demanding government target fully decarbonised grid, as gas supply issues send power prices soaring

BT, Thames Water, Co-op, and Nestlé UK & Ireland are among a raft of companies that have called on the government to phase out gas power by 2035 this morning, as surging gas prices in the UK continue to...

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