Demand side management and the Energy Bill - better late than never?

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As the Energy Bill reading gets underway Labour's Alan Whitehead welcomes government efforts to create an energy efficiency market, but warns many technical questions remain unanswered

We're on the very last lap of the Energy Bill in the Hose of Commons - this week it will be bundled up in all its now sprawling complexity, and sent off to the House of Lords to see whether they are going...

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