Compared with the prior month, the CPI rose by 0.1pc in November on a seasonally adjusted basis, slowing from 0.4pc in the two prior months and well off a peak of 1.3pc in June.
"It is a step forwards but it has by no means answered all questions or addressed all outstanding issues," Hydrogen UK chief executive Clare Jackson said.
There's been a peak in terms of the investment cycle over the last 30 or 40 years as the coal business internationally has gone through an expansion in various places.