Can grid management help to solve the capacity conundrum?

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Labour's Alan Whitehead argues it is time policymakers paid more attention to the potentially significant financial and emissions savings on offer from smarter grids

Just how much capacity in our electricity generation systems are we going to need over the next 15 years? Well we know, don't we? I mean, you just take the maximum demand you expect to experience at the...

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