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 Various stats scripts for manipulating and analysing data released by the UK Department for Energy & Climate Change
 
+Unless there is a specific license notice in the relevant folder or script, the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license applies
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+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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 YMMV