TALK of a national energy research centre is in the air again. So I asked Prime Minister Tony Blair about the proposals, which I hear he and David King, the government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, set great store by.
Blair said the Department for Trade and Industry leads the field on this matter. Establishing such a centre was a key recommendation in last autumn’s review – led by King – of government support for energy research. Like all recommendations in that review it was incorporated into a wider review of energy policy and published on 14 February by the Performance and…
