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Headquarters | 3 Whitehall Place |
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Minister responsible | - Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change
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Website | www.gov.uk/decc |
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The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) was a British government department. It was created to make sure the UK has secure, clean, affordable energy supplies and promote international action to mitigate climate change.
Minister
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Portfolio
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Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change
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Overall responsibility for the business and policies of the Department of Energy & Climate Change
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Minister for Climate Change
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- Green Deal
- Energy efficiency and energy demand reduction
- Promoting the interests of energy consumers
- Managing fuel poverty
- National and international climate change
- Carbon budgets
- Renewable Heat Incentive
- Feed-in tariffs
- Planning reform and consents
- Green Investment Bank
- Green jobs and skills
- Climate science
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Minister for Energy
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- Energy Bill
- Supports the SoS on EMR
- Security of supply
- International energy
- CCS, gas and coal policy
- Nuclear policy
- Renewable energy deployment
- Grid policy including smart grids and network of recharging points
- Oil and gas exploration, licensing and revenues
- Offshore environment and decommissioning
- Regulation and competition in the energy sector (including nuclear)
- Waste and decommissioning policy for new nuclear
- Resilience and emergency preparedness
- Energy Council
- Coal Authority
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