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New York state has passed legislation that will scale up the state’s renewable energy production and signals a major step toward moving utilities out of private hands to become publicly owned.The bill, included in the state’s new budget, will require the state’s public power provider to generate all of its electricity from clean energy by 2030. It also allows the public utility to build and own renewables while phasing out fossil fuels.“It’s a historic win for the climate and for clean jobs,” sa …

More than 1m small businesses may be paying energy bills significantly above market rates after becoming trapped in long-term contracts fixed when prices reached a historical peak last year.Trade groups representing businesses from metalworkers to convenience stores have joined forces to warn of a “perilous situation”.They are calling on ministers to force suppliers to renegotiate unaffordable energy deals struck last summer or risk thousands of insolvencies that would hit jobs and the UK econom …