James Macnaghten, Caldera
20 October 2023 • 4 min read
The current electricity market structure is actively discouraging manufacturers from ‘greening’ their operations, writes Caldera’s James Macnaghten
As a predominantly service-based economy it’s perhaps easy to forget that the UK still makes an awful lot of stuff – from cars to cakes, and machine tools to mattresses. We use a lot of energy, and produce…
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