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Green dream: Many eco measures are promoted to consumers as cost savings when they are anything but Chris Simons, 32, reckons he is pretty green. When he and his partner, Oliver, moved into their new home, just before Covid hit, they were keen to make it as eco-friendly as possible.  Half the garden was turned into a wildflower meadow. They installed a pond to encourage insects and wildlife.  And then they turned to the house, a detached four-bedroom property in Norfolk, built in the 1920s. This is not attached to the gas network: it is heated using oil.  The first thing Chris, who works ...

1219 views The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) with the support of Enel Foundation organized a webinar on the theme “Electricity Networks in a Carbon-Neutral Economy: Challenges and Policy Implications”. The webinar was held in two different sessions, on November 18 and 25 at 12CET in both days, and focused on what impact will policies to achieve net zero carbon targets have on electricity networks in terms of role, operation, investment, competition and regulation. Growing urgency over climate change has resulted in stringent decarbonization targets established by governmen...