Government powers up £211m of grant funding for battery innovation

Cecilia Keating
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Government powers up £211m of grant funding for battery innovation

Business Secretary announces extension of Faraday Battery Competition on trip to UK Battery Industrialisation Centre

The government may have desecended further into chaos, but attempts to catalyse investment in clean technologies are continiuing. Today the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)...

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