Businesses awarded £52m to cut emissions

Businesses have shared almost £52m to help reduce their carbon emissions under a Government scheme.

A coffee processing site in Staffordshire and a baked bean factory in Wigan are among those benefitting from grants to support projects worth £154m in total.

The funding is part of the Government’s Plan for Change to make Britain a clean energy superpower and drive economic growth.

Minister for Industry Sarah Jones said: “Helping businesses of all sizes to reduce their emissions is core to our Plan for Change to achieve net zero while growing the economy.

“These companies represent some of the best of business innovation – using new technologies to improve how we do things, become more sustainable, and continue to make the British products we love.”