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...Voters across the bloc are turning right in protest at falling living standards, rising immigration and the costs of going green, such as for new boilers and electric cars....
...The daunting scale of the project — which has involved ripping out 50 gas boilers, and installing more than 2,000 sensors to monitor temperature and air flow to make heating and ventilation more efficient...
...In the UK, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has delayed bans on the sale of new gas boilers and new petrol and diesel cars....
...Germany’s fragile governing coalition was almost broken this year by proposals to ban domestic boilers run on oil and gas....
...hydrogen-only units reach price parity with conventional boilers....
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...But ministers now face the potentially greater challenge of increasing clean electricity supplies while also getting households and industry to switch gas boilers and petrol cars for cleaner equivalents....
...£3.6mn in funding from the UK government in June, the nearly 200-year-old Annandale Distillery will soon be relying on low carbon heating for the distillation process — a change from traditional steam boilers...
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...Signs of battle: Ukraine’s launch of western tanks in fighting against Russia marks the beginning of its much-anticipated counter-offensive....
...A report by the Resolution Foundation think-tank last year said there had been “little change in the relative size of green and brown occupations over the past decade”, with a “small net growth” in green...
...“The most important issue now is how to let the companies survive — not to make profits — but survive,” said economist Pierluigi Testa, president of Trinità dei Monti, a Rome-based think-tank....
...By 1964, Fisher’s company Buxted Chickens was processing more than 500,000 birds each week across three plants. Buxted was sold to a company that was later acquired by 2 Sisters Food Group....
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...That still leaves open the question of how households can be incentivised to make the switch from gas boilers....
...Instead, the government is currently relying on common sense and hardship to get people to reduce gas usage by 8 per cent simply by adjusting their boiler settings to run more efficiently....
...The lowering of thermostats in buildings across the EU group of 27 countries could save 130 terawatt hours in energy over a year, estimated researchers at Brussels-based economic think-tank Bruegel....
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