Poll: Do the UK's high industrial energy costs threaten your company’s future?
Poll: Do the UK's high industrial energy costs threaten your company’s future?

With Manufacturing body Make UK calling on the Government to commit to cutting industrial energy costs as part of its Industrial Strategy this week’s poll is asking readers whether the UK’s current energy costs represent an existential crisis for manufacturers.
As reported by The Engineer 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.
With UK industrial energy prices currently 46 per cent above the global average, failure to take action will – warns Make UK - put British manufacturers at a huge competitive disadvantage and risk a period of deindustrialisation.
In this week’s poll we’re exploring what the UK’s 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’s future?
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