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The rules, consultations and support schemes through which UK government departments steer electricity generation, energy security and household energy costs.
UK ministers have promised to regulate heating oil, a market 1.5 million households depend on, after prices nearly doubled in a year. The BBC reports no start date for the stricter rules and no sign of a price cap, so customers enter winter with the protections already in place.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has not yet ruled on the Rosebank and Jackdaw North Sea fields, a decision officials have been expected to make since August. Campaigners want refusal, while the opposition, industry and Trump cite jobs, bills and energy security.
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Equinor may shun further UK investment if Rosebank, thought to hold up to 500 million barrels, and Jackdaw are refused, Equinor boss Anders Opedal said. The pending ministerial ruling is now also a test of whether a British consent holds once granted, though Opedal still expects both fields to be approved.
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NRDC estimates Drax's planned 1.2GW datacentre would burn 4.9m tonnes of wood and emit 8.6m tonnes of CO2 a year, nearly twice the CO2 of all Gatwick flights. Drax calls the estimate inaccurate, and the accounting dispute behind it would decide what any tenant could report.
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Plug-in kits became legal in the UK on 27 August, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology says most residual current devices in British fuse boxes were never suitable for current flowing both ways.
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