So much for 'predict and provide' - UK energy use keeps on falling

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Andrew Warren argues falling energy use should spark a reappraisal in the government's future assumptions and policy priorities

Last Thursday the government published the UK's energy statistics for 2017. All the headlines concentrated upon the relentless swing away from electricity generated via fossil fuels, with the proportion...

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