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Electricity Market Reform - Government promises to slash cost of decarbonisation

17 July 2013 •

EXCLUSIVE: Delivery Plan to show that wide-ranging reforms will reduce cost of decarbonisation by £5bn

The government will today publish its long-awaited draft Electricity Market Reform (EMR) Delivery Plan, alongside a promise that the wide-ranging shake-up of the power sector will make the UK "the first...

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