David Blackman

Nuclear ministerial portfolio given to Andrew Stephenson

Political Agenda: “Labour’s competency took a knock last week”

Whitehall is ramping up its preparation for a no deal Brexit. Two-thirds of the staff

Gove hires legal heavyweight for Brexit environment body

Michael Gove has hired an “eminent” environmental lawyer to head the new body that is being set up to oversee the environment protection regime if the UK leaves the EU without a withdrawal agreement.

Ofgem’s wind farm veto frustrates Scottish officials

The blustery week of 11-17 March led to wind power generating 38 per cent of

Energy sector hoping for a soft Brexit

Government reviews UK gas security after Rough closure

The government is carrying out an internal review of the UK’s gas security following the closure of the Rough storage facility in the North Sea, Claire Perry has revealed.

CBI proposes measures for utilities to head off nationalisation

The director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has backed the introduction of new mechanisms to automatically compensate and switch customers to the best deal in a bid to head off mounting calls by Labour for nationalisation.

Energy trends show ‘unstoppable momentum’ for renewables

Windfarms generated more than three times as much electricity last year than coal, new government figures show.

Landlord energy efficiency cap ceiling ‘nonsense’

Lord Deben, chair of the Committee on Climate Change said he is “disappointed” at the £3,500 ceiling set by the government on the amount that landlords should be expected to contribute to bringing their rented properties up to energy performance certificate band E.

Future for small-scale renewables ‘remains bleak’ as FIT closure looms

More than 700MW of small green power schemes have been installed in Scotland by homeowners and businesses since the opening of the soon to be closed feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme in 2010, according to new figures.