The politics of energy: A business perspective

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Charlie Spencer warns that "political point-scoring and early electioneering" is undermining clean energy investment - it is time for a "Living Tariff"

The current political debate about energy prices and policy is depressing and damaging. Everyone understands the deep concern about rising energy prices but the issues involved are too fundamentally...

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