UK investment in wind energy generated a net financial benefit of more than £100bn for energy consumers between 2010 and 2023. We don’t often hear about the cost benefits of wind power – quite the opposite. This impressive sum is a powerful tool in challenging misconceptions about the cost of the green energy transition, a […]
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Wind power delivers £104 billion net benefit to UK consumers
Salary not enough to live comfortably on for half of UK employees
Nearly half (47%) of UK employees do not think their current salary is enough to live on, a survey by loan company Viva Money revealed yesterday (1 August). A further 48% of the 2,000 employees surveyed in June 2024 said that they considered themselves underpaid, with 63% reporting that they would need on average another […]
Women twice as likely as men to worry about meeting living costs
Close Brothers research says that women are twice as likely to worry about meeting their day-to-day living costs than their male counterparts. The figure among female employees is 16%, compared to just 7% among men. In Close Brothers’ newly developed Financial Wellbeing Index, in which employees score their wellbeing in each of the seven areas of […]
