
Guy Newey
Head of Environment & Energy, 2010-2014
Guy is now Head of Policy at Ovo Energy.Guy was Head of Environment and Energy at Policy Exchange. Before joining Policy Exchange, he worked as a journalist, including three years as a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong. He has an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London. His research interests include energy efficiency, renewable energy policy, biodiversity and changing energy behaviour.

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Forget the “green crap”, what are your top five green priorities?
by Guy Newey | Nov 29, 2013
Whether the Prime Minister said the UK needed to get rid of this “green crap” or not is beside the point. What should worry folks who are already worrying about protecting the environment is that when the phrase “green crap” was used, everyone...
Government’s energy price promise may be more canny than it appears
by Guy Newey | Nov 29, 2013
Partly in an effort to smokescreen Ed Miliband’s “biggest reform of Britain’s energy market since the privatisation of the 1980s” (Copyright every energy announcement since 1990), it was reported today (and then retracted) that the Government would ask the Big 6 not...
When it comes to cutting energy bills there are no easy answers
by Guy Newey | Oct 9, 2013
Ed Miliband’s promise to freeze energy prices poses a tricky question for the other parties. Is there anything politicians can do that will make bills lower over the next few years? The first point is that the ability of Government to do anything about the cost of...
Ed Miliband’s energy price freeze is ill-considered and irresponsible
by Guy Newey | Sep 25, 2013
Before the last election, Ed Miliband was one of the few politicians honest enough to admit that energy bills would have to rise to pay for low carbon electricity. It was an act of political bravery. But his announcement to freeze – in fact to cap – energy prices in...Support Us
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