Have the UK’s green plans hit a red light?
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The Government's Plan to Cut the Green Crap
The government said it wants to crack down basically on greenwashing. There was also more support to help households decarbonize and replace gas boilers with a heat pump, which is good news. But the pace of delivery is extremely slow and there isn't really a domestic industry capable even of delivering what they would like at the moment. Britain has been ahead on quite a lot of renewable energy stuff. We've got three or four of the biggest offshore wind farms in the world. China dominates global markets for production of photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, batteries for electric cars. They're miles ahead because the state has encouraged us and funded this for a very long time.
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