'From baked beans to beer': 25 businesses awarded share of £52m in decarbonisation funding

Stuart Stone
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Businesses adopting innovative emissions-cutting projects supported with £51.9m from government's Industrial Energy Transformation Fund

Twenty-five UK businesses ranging from brewers and dairy farmers to corporate giants such as of Heinz and Nestlé have been awarded a share of nearly £52m in government funding to support innovative new...

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