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When the levy breaks: How to save energy bill payers money whilst maintaining ambition on climate change

Jimmy Aldridge, IPPR

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Clean energy advocates can not afford to bury their heads in the sand, argues IPPR's Jimmy Aldridge, reform is needed to help cut costs

Anyone working in the energy sector during the autumn of 2013 will remember only too well the furore over 'green crap' that blew up in response to Ed Miliband's announcement that he wanted to freeze energy...

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