{"id":155213,"date":"2025-06-03T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155213\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:19:18","slug":"poll-on-uk-industrial-energy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155213\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll on UK industrial energy costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Manufacturing body Make UK calling on the Government to commit to cutting industrial energy costs as part of its Industrial Strategy this week\u2019s poll is asking readers whether the UK\u2019s current energy costs represent an existential crisis for manufacturers. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theengineer.co.uk\/content\/news\/cut-industrial-energy-costs-or-risk-deindustrialisation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As reported by The Engineer <\/a>Make UK is this week called for urgent action on industrial energy costs, including reform to policy levies that make low-carbon energy more expensive than fossil fuels along with the introduction of a fixed electricity price that will put British manufacturers on a level playing field with international competitors. <\/p>\n<p>With UK industrial energy prices currently 46 per cent above the global average, failure to take action will \u2013 warns Make UK &#8211; put British manufacturers at a huge competitive disadvantage and risk a period of deindustrialisation. <\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s poll we\u2019re exploring what the UK\u2019s high industrial energy costs mean for you and asking a simple question: as a UK engineering firm do the high industrial energy prices threaten your company\u2019s future?<\/p>\n<p>Please cast your vote below, and as always expand on your thoughts by joining the debate and letting us know your thoughts on which policy measures you think might help?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Manufacturing body Make UK calling on the Government to commit to cutting industrial energy costs as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,40848,393,4884,1144,47,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-155213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-energy-costs","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-poll","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114620345067673707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}