date:Jan 04, 2013
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has called on the government to exclude the food industry from its new Energy Bill, which allows energy providers to raise their charges to pay for investment in renewable energy resources.
The government hopes that allowing providers to charge more will give them greater confidence to invest in building a renewable infrastructure as the UK moves towards a low-carbon economy.
While energy-intensive industries such as steel and cement would be exempt from the