Tighter energy standards could boost the U.K. industry

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It is happening everywhere: governments are setting targets to reduce carbon and save energy. The feeling here is that the targets are stringent, but I guess I can't complain because the U.K. started setting goals from a long way behind the rest of the world. Britain has the draughtiest, leakiest (in energy terms) buildings in Europe. For decades, nobody cared. Sometimes elderly people would die of hypothermia - inside their houses - but tucked up as we are behind the Gulf Stream we have never had seriously cold winters, so we didn't bother much with girly stuff like double glazing and insulation. I am old enough to remember getting up in the morning and seeing ice on the inside of my bedroom window.