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National Emergency Plan for Fuel
The demand restraint measures available in the United Kingdom are set out in the National Emergency Plan for Fuel (NEP-F). They range from light-handed measures to the allocation and rationing of oil products. In a disruption that requires central government action, light-handed measures are preferred. Light-handed measures include: communication strategies to disseminate the relevant information quickly and to reassure the public to limit panic buying; demand-reducing measures, such as speed limit reductions and voluntary demand reduction campaigns; and the relaxation of regulations that affect the supply or use of petroleum products (e.g. gasoline, diesel…
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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Electricity regulator four tiered approach, guidance for application of AI
In 2024, the United Kingdom's gas and electricity regulator updated its framework to a four-tiered approach and launched a project to develop guidance for applications of AI.
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Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) Facility
In 2022, the United Kingdom committed the equivalent of USD 80 million to launch a programme with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to provide grants to demonstration projects in developing countries in the areas of critical minerals, hydrogen, smart energy and industrial decarbonisation.
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Prototype tokamak fusion power plant
In early 2025, the United Kingdom pledged the equivalent of USD 525 million to develop a prototype tokamak fusion power plant.
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UK CCUS Action Plan
In 2018, the United Kingdom published “UK CCUS Deployment Pathway: An Action Plan”, which set out actions the country should take in order to achieve the objective of deploying CCUS at-scale in the 2030s, subject to sufficient cost reductions.
The Action Plan notably outlines a goal to establish a first commercial CCUS facility operating in the 2020s, identifies several major industrial centres for which CCUS could play an important role in creating low carbon industrial clusters, and describes actions related to overcoming policy barriers, delivering infrastructure, and promoting innovation. -
Energy Company Obligation
In 1994, the United Kingdom introduced energy efficiency obligations with the goal of achieving energy savings. The latest iteration of the oligation is the Energy Company Obligation which began in April 2013, and over time it has been amended. The latest phase, ECO3, commenced on 3 December 2018, and applies to measures completed from 1 October 2018. EC03 wfocuses on one obligation, the Home Heating Cost Reduction Obligation (HHCRO). Under HHCRO, obligated suppliers must mainly promote measures which improve the ability of low income, fuel poor and vulnerable households to heat their homes. This includes actions that result in heating…
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Joint Declaration from Energy Importers and Exporters on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fossil Fuels
The governments of the United States, European Union, Japan, Canada, Norway, Singapore, and the United Kingdom released a joint declaration affirming their commitment to accelerate GHG emissions reduction from fossil fuels energy production and consumption. The declaration acknowledges the importance of reducing methane emissions from the sector to ensure energy security and improve health outcomes, and calls for global action to reduce methane emissions as much as possible in order to meet international climate targets. To this end, the governments pledge to support domestic and international action through the following areas: 1) adoption of policies and measures for to achieve…
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Oil Stocking Order 2012
The Order sets the requirements for stockholding of oil and petroleum products in the United Kingdom. It fulfils its stockholding obligations by imposing stockholding obligations on commercial entities.
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Export control for emerging technologies
On 2024, the government of the United Kingdom expanded its export control reguime to include new measures on dual-use goods emerging technologies such as semiconductors, electrical machines and apparatus, photovoltaic cells, and heat pumps.
