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BEIS committee chair to present bill for net-zero goal

Rachel Reeves will increase the pressure on the government to move rapidly to adopt the 2050 net-zero carbon emissions goal by presenting a bill to enshrine the target in legislation.

6 years ago

How Brexit, May’s exit and energy policy could affect utilities

The turmoil in Westminster will be a key talking point at the 2019 Utility Week Energy Summit, including how future policy is likely to affect investment in utilities. Nigel Hawkins reports

6 years ago

Gas capacity likely to increase

UW: Could you explain how much of Uniper’s energy generation in the UK/around the world

6 years ago

Reeves presses for answers on solar policy void

The chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee has raised concerns with the acting energy minister about the government’s axing of support for small scale renewable generation.

6 years ago

Renewables ‘no-regrets insurance’ against nuclear gap

6 years ago

Glasgow windfarm hailed ‘national success story’ 10 years on

The UK’s largest onshore windfarm, Whitelee, has generated enough clean energy to provide almost 90 per cent of the total annual electricity consumed by households and businesses in Scotland, research has found.

6 years ago

Net-zero goal requires ‘bold policy steps’ on renewables

6 years ago

‘Let’s take action in every area that we can think of,’ says climate change expert

With climate change dominating the agenda at Utility Week’s Energy Summit on 13 June, David Joffe, one of the authors of the CCC's net zero report, explains the key challenges of decarbonisation, as Denise Chevin reports

6 years ago

Future energy models and the prosumer

Local authorities must partner with businesses to drive the low-carbon agenda at the community level

6 years ago

Industry urged to escalate efforts on an optimised low-carbon energy system

6 years ago

Utility Week Live: The hack was back

6 years ago

View from the chair: All change at Utility Week Live

6 years ago

Bristol Energy celebrates one year of selling green gas

Council-owned energy firm Bristol Energy has now been selling renewable gas to its customers for a whole year, the company has announced.

6 years ago

The role of gas in decarbonisation

Alec Peachey, editor of Utility Week's sister title, Network, shares a key issue on the future of gas from Utility Week Live's first ever Gas Innovation Showcase.

6 years ago

‘It’s time for the world to ratchet up its ambition on the Paris Agreement’

With utilities at the heart of the drive to decarbonise and global warming now an emergency issue, Mike Thompson of the Committee on Climate Change tells Suzanne Heneghan why 2050 must be the net-zero target

6 years ago