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    • Sunday, 28 August, 2022
      InterviewUK energy
      Utilities and regulators ‘not fit for purpose’, says UK government ex-adviser

      Dieter Helm attacks privatisation model and says energy and water ‘too essential to be treated like any other commodity’

    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      UK energy
      Energy expert slams UK’s net zero strategy as ‘hopelessly unrealistic’

      Sir Dieter Helm questions costs underpinning government’s 2050 decarbonisation target

    • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
      Climate change
      We are all complicit in climate change — so we should all pay to fix it

      Cognitive dissonance, carbon pricing and what a sustainable economy would look like

    • Sunday, 21 February, 2021
      Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
      The creative climate accounting of biomass

      The technology’s green credentials depend on questionable assumptions about the future

    • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
      UK politics & policy
      Putting wind power into the UK’s sails

      Boris Johnson has a grand vision for clean power generation, but does it have substance?

    • Friday, 15 March, 2019
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Rescuing the British Countryside — an economist’s take

      Dieter Helm has a plan to stop damage from farming and government’s complicity in it

    • Wednesday, 7 February, 2018
      At Home with the FT
      How Dieter Helm’s rural upbringing shaped his view on energy overhaul

      The economics professor challenges received thought on carbon reduction and the environment

    • Monday, 27 November, 2017
      Brexit21 min
      Listen: Farming and the environment

      Is it time to reset UK policy on farming and the environment? Siona Jenkins discusses the question with Dieter Helm, Lynn Dicks and Scheherazade Daneshkhu.

    • Thursday, 9 November, 2017
      Energy sector
      National Grid hits back at calls for renationalisation
    • Thursday, 26 October, 2017
      Energy sector
      Network companies under scrutiny for rising UK electricity prices

      Helm review calls for price control shake-up and rethink of National Grid role

    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2017
      Renewable energy
      Energy bills ‘significantly higher’ than necessary, review shows

      Consumers and business fail to benefit from fall in fossil and renewable fuel prices

    • Monday, 14 August, 2017
      Energy sector
      Critics attack ‘rushed and unambitious’ energy pricing review

      Insiders question Dieter Helm’s wide-ranging agenda with limited resources

    • Saturday, 5 August, 2017
      Energy sector
      UK launches independent energy review

      Government looks to assuage concerns over cost and supply

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
      FT Books Essay
      Green streets: can cities take the lead on climate change?

      Four new books suggest ways of reducing emissions that do not depend on Trump

    • Friday, 16 September, 2016
      Martin Wolf
      Hinkley Point decision best taken by government, not the market

      Electricity supply and distribution should be viewed as an interconnected system

    • Monday, 29 August, 2016
      News in-depthTelecoms
      Openreach and critics locked in debate over faster broadband

      BT’s detractors say Britain risks falling behind in digital race

    • Tuesday, 9 February, 2016
      Oil
      Oil industry leaders move to quash talk of stronger prices

      Exchange data show hedge funds and other investors have a record bet on recovery

    • Thursday, 23 October, 2014
      Climate change
      Renewables are very much ‘up to the job’

      From Mr Angus McCrone, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, UK

    • Wednesday, 4 June, 2014
      UK coalition government
      Environment body must be preserved, say MPs
    • Monday, 18 March, 2013
      Energy sector
      Weather and low stocks add to gas worries
    • Friday, 1 June, 2012
      World
      Energy proposals losing their spark
    • Monday, 13 February, 2012
      Climate change
      Planning reform row set to reignite
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      UK companies
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