TfL take forward PX proposals to improve Thames transport
Recommendations from 2010 Policy Exchange report At a Rate of Knots for improving transport on the River Thames were taken forward in a report for Transport for London, including proposals to extend and upgrade piers, showcase the benefits of river transport and better ticketing.
Households could reduce their gas and electricity bills by £70 a year if they were allowed to compare each other’s energy bills. There is evidence both internationally and in the UK that households cut the amount of energy they use when their energy usage is compared to a more energy efficient neighbour.
Guy Newey, Policy Exchange's Head of Environment & Energy, appeared on Sky News arguing that the new Energy Bill will push up families' energy bills for the sake of meeting an overly-aggressive 2020 carbon target.
Simon Moore, Research Fellow for Environment & Energy at Policy Exchange, appeared at a session of the Energy & Climate Change Select Committee to talk about findings from his shale gas report Gas Works?.
Utility Week quotes Guy Newey, Head of Environment & Energy at Policy Exchange, speaking in response to the report by John Penrose MP calling for a liberalisation of regulation in the vital utilities sector. Guy said the paper has some good ideas, including introducing more competition into the market.
BusinessGreen reports that the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced plans to remove the congestion charge exemption for small diesel vehicles, a leading recommendation Policy Exchange made in our report Something in the Air.
On 14th February 2013, Policy Exchange held a roundtable discussion to help stimulate debate on what success for proposed new regulation of the energy retail market would look like and how it could be measured. This publication is a summary of the remarks made at that event.
Households could reduce their gas and electricity bills by as much as £70 a year if they were allowed to compare each other’s energy bills. Smarter, Greener, Cheaper, shows there is evidence both internationally and in the UK that households cut the amount of energy they use when their energy use is compared to that of a more energy efficient neighbour.
Guy Newey, Head of Environment & Energy at Policy Exchange, argues that public concern with energy bills means energy and climate policy will be a crucial battleground in the 2015 general election. The party that can come up with a convincing answer on gas and electricity bills, as well as wider cost of living concerns, will be in a strong position to win the next election.
Simon Moore, Environment & Energy Research Fellow, argues in response to a report by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee on the impact of shale gas on energy markets, saying that while the report offers a largely sensible overview, the government's Electricity Market Reform (EMR) policy is vulnerable to mistakes in gas price projections, as outlined in Policy Exchange report Gas Works.
Leading energy and environment economist, Professor Dieter Helm will deliver a lecture on his new book, The Carbon Crunch - How we are getting climate change wrong and how to fix it, which argues that current climate policy, despite two decades of international negotiations, is failing.
With James Murray, Editor, Business Green (CHAIR), Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Guy Newey, Head of Environment & Energy, Policy Exchange, David Palmer-Jones, Chief Executive, SITA UK and Professor George Yarrow, Chairman, Regulatory Policy Institute
