Why the focus of this year's Budget must be green growth

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Why the focus of this year's Budget must be green growth

The new levy on electricity generators must be designed in a way that unblocks clean energy investment in the UK, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska

The last six months of political uncertainty and an increasingly competitive international investment environment has stalled the UK's current deployment pipeline of renewables and clean technologies....

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