David Blackman

Call for decentralised optimisation as FIT regime due to end

Fresh mechanisms will be required to ensure that new decentralised generation is visible on the grid once the feed-in tariff (FIT) regime ends this March, an event heard last week.

Swansea Bay tidal lagoon backers revive plans

Plans for Swansea Bay’s groundbreaking tidal power project have been revived with its backers claiming it can be built without public financial support.

Avoiding pause in smart meter rollout ‘priority’ for Energy UK

Scottish government not deterred by collapse of Our Power

The Scottish government has confirmed its commitment to setting up a public-owned energy company despite last week’s collapse of Our Power.

Is there a case for nationalisation?

Chancellor ‘hopeful’ Hitachi will rethink Wylfa nuclear plant

Philip Hammond has expressed hope that Hitachi might still press ahead with its plans to build a new nuclear plant in north Wales.

Smart Energy GB has one unresolved advert complaint

Can the energy market ever be a fair play for consumers?

The often heavily whiskered Victorians whose portraits line the walls of the Institute of Mechanical

MPs call for ‘mutual ownership’ of water companies

Labour has been pressed to transfer water into mutual ownership as the route to reversing

Scotland could reach net zero emissions by 2045

Scotland could reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2045 and has the potential to play a "pivotal role" in wider UK decarbonisation efforts, according to a new report from the WWF.