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"We believe everyone has a part to play in doing more to meet our 2020 emissions targets which we are on course to miss"
8 years ago
Tackling climate change will be at the heart of the energy system if Labour succeeds in bringing the National Grid back into public ownership, Jeremy Corbyn has pledged.
Why are the UK coal mines, that have contributed so greatly to climate change issues, now being seen as a source of clean energy? Well, the Coal Authority, an executive non-departmental public body that manages around £3 billion worth of coal mining issues, believes this is the case.
James Forrest and Alain Bollack round up what the UK utilities sector should expect in 2018.
The chair of Parliament’s climate change watchdog has backed the government’s sceptical approach towards the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon.
The European Parliament has passed a package of reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) designed to boost the price of allowances and accelerate the pace of decarbonisation.
Transport has overtaken energy supply as the biggest source of greenhouse gases, according to new government figures.
Gravitricity has been awarded £650,000 of government funding to test an innovative energy storage system.
All businesses have had to embrace technology and new ways of working in the past
Repurposing the gas distribution network to carry hydrogen poses “significant” technical challenges and costs, Ofgem has warned.
The UK was home to more than half of new offshore wind capacity in Europe
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
EDF says replicating the design of Hinkley Point for Sizewell, and wind's rising integration costs, will enable nuclear to be competitive - if the financing can be got right. Tom Grimwood reports.
Storage developer Arenko has selected GE to build a 41MW battery storage system in the
Coal generation has been routed in the latest capacity market auction, with nearly 2.8GW dropping
Motoring experts, Newcastle University and Northern Powergrid have joined forces to roll-out 1,000 Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) chargers, accelerating the UK in electric vehicles.
Corporate manslaughter investigations are continuing into the deaths of four workers following the collapse of
The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has launched a consultation on the work plan for its Open Networks Project in 2018.
