Can hydrogen and CCS save one another?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the ‘hydrogen economy’ have long been touted as essential tools in decarbonising our energy system, yet they have always seemed to be 10 years away. CCS in the UK received a major blow in 2015 when the Government...
Clean Growth: How can we improve business energy efficiency?
UK energy policy is often framed as a trilemma of objectives – security of supply, affordability and sustainability. Improving energy efficiency within houses, businesses and the public sector presents a large and often overlooked opportunity to tackle all...
What has been missed or misunderstood in this week’s Euratom debate?
Until the last few weeks, few people outside the physics and legal communities had even heard of Euratom. However, the Government’s view that leaving the EU also must also mean leaving Euratom has made this previously obscure treaty front page news and a political...
How can Government and regulators keep up with disruptive innovation?
From self-driving cars to peer-to-peer lending, new technologies look set to disrupt not just markets, but many of the assumptions which lie behind their regulation. Working with the UK Regulators Network, this week Policy Exchange hosted a roundtable with...