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TEN years after the passing of the Climate Change Act, Energy UK is launching a far-reaching project looking ahead to the next decade.
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The role of gas in the UK’s future power mix is set to rise to more than 50 per cent in under 10 years, according to BMI Research of ratings agency Fitch Group.
The emergence of subsidy-free solar has helped the UK climb three places in a global
A windy Tuesday and Wednesday’s scorching sunshine enabled the UK to avoid coal power for a new record long period of just over two days.
"Over the last 10 years, we’ve invested more than £2.5 billion in renewable energy in the UK"
Ofgem has revealed its initial decisions on whether or not proceed with a multitude of capacity market rule changes suggested by both itself and industry stakeholders.
Claire Perry has signalled that onshore wind and solar projects will be allowed to compete for subsidies in a future Contract for Difference (CfD) auction.
Britain is on the cusp of a subsidy-free renewables “revolution” which could create 18GW of new capacity by 2030 and attract £20 billion of investment, analysts have claimed.
The government has confirmed plans to conduct a formal review of the capacity market “later this year”.
Allowing subsidy-free renewables to bid for capacity contracts would cut energy bills by £600 million between 2025 and 2035, a new report has found.
Asset management firm Blackrock has acquired 13.5MW of UK solar assets from China-owned CTF Solar after agreeing a £15 million deal through its Kingfisher partnership with Lightsource BP.
Renewable output rose by 27 per cent over 2017 due to windier weather and new capacity coming online, according to the latest Electric Insights report from Imperial College London.
Engie has been chosen by Transport for London (TfL) to install solar panels and to implement energy conservation measures across the TfL estate.
The European Commission recently announced that it was considering measures to ease capital charges on
The chair of Parliament’s climate change watchdog has backed the government’s sceptical approach towards the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon.
Investment in small scale low carbon projects is waning due to uncertainty over the future
The government should end its de facto “policy ban” on mature renewables to help cut
The costs of self-generated energy could be of an equivalent price to an energy provider by 2022 in Europe, revealed findings from Ernst and Young Global Ltd (EY).
The clean growth strategy falls ‘well short’ of achieving the kind of emissions reductions needed
Welsh communities and other partners now have just 11 weeks to share their stories of locally owned renewable energy, falling in line with the government's 2020 renewable energy targets.