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Government is rumoured to have negotiated the strike price for nuclear below £100/MWh, in a move that could make new nuclear more politically palatable.
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has given climate change minister Greg Barker ministerial responsibility for planning decisions, a move that means he will determine EDF's Hinkley Point C nuclear power station application.
The government provided a boost for photovoltaic generation yesterday with the launch of the National Solar Centre yesterday.
EDF is in talks with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding (CGN) to replace Centrica as its nuclear partner in the UK, according to sources close to the deal.
Hitachi's plan to build six nuclear reactors in the UK moved a step forward today, as ministers asked the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency to assess their designs.
EDF Energy's eight UK nuclear power stations have produced their highest output for seven years.
The offshore transmission regime is "extremely generous" to investors at the expense of consumers, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report out today.
Good Energy has bought an onshore windfarm site in Doncaster from RWE Npower Renewables for £3 million, it announced today.
EDF Energy will supply Network Rail with low carbon electricity to power its rail network as part of a ten year deal, it announced today.
Good Energy has today launched the UK's first local electricity tariff for customers who live within two kilometres of the company's Delabole windfarm in north Cornwall.
The Co-operative Energy is part of a coalition urging MPs to support community-owned and controlled renewable energy projects.
Four wind turbines are to be built at a Wessex Water sewage works in Bristol by the end of the year, it has been announced.
Eon's failure to consult neighbouring local authorities over plans to build a 700MW windfarm off the East Sussex coast have led to the application being withdrawn.
Southern Water is installing a £700,000 combined heat and power (CHP) plant at its wastewater treatment works on the Isle of Wight. The plant at Sandown will capture biogas created during the sewage treatment process.
Eon has struck a deal with a boat-building company for four vessels to service its offshore windfarms.
The Energy Bill has set the stage for EMR, but with most of the detailed design work yet to come, it's still very much the start of the show. Mark Bartholomew explains
Roger Milne reports on the ups and downs of life for water and energy firms under the reformed planning system, and particularly the NSIP regime
Will an EU investigation into "dumping" by Chinese solar panel suppliers undermine Decc's assumption that solar subsidies can be slashed? Neil Budd and Timothy Lyons report
At a time when we desperately need new capacity, it doesn't makes sense to insist that new CCGT plants are carbon capture ready 30 years before they have to be, says Miles Thomas
Flexible plant is essential for balancing intermittent renewables, but capacity market plans have so far failed to take this into account. Has Decc learned in time for the Energy Bill? asks Melle Kruisdijk
