Pixie Chart of the week | Domestic renewable heat knowledge gap revealed by BEIS

In this week’s Pixie Chart of the Week we discuss how this month, BEIS released its Public Attitudes Tracker survey for December 2018.

The report outlined the public’s attitudes in respect of BEIS policies on energy, climate change and workers’ rights, and has been running since March 2012.

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