The government should reverse the VAT rise for domestic energy storage systems

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The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska

Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks. It has not just simply been about the sheer...

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