Policy

Green Homes Grant progressing ‘at snail’s pace’

Electricity networks invite pitches for £300m of green recovery investment

John Pettigrew: We must tackle green skills gap ahead of COP

Coal mine saga raises questions over BEIS ‘clout’

Emma Pinchbeck: How to win public permission for the green recovery

Battery storage pipeline soars to more than 16GW

Will Gardiner: The next nine months are critical

EV drivers ‘need right to request chargepoints’

Thinktank Bright Blue has proposed a raft of new fiscal and regulatory policies to get the market for electric vehicles (EV) fully off the ground. This includes giving EV drivers a “right to request” an on-street chargepoint from their local authority.

Peter Simpson: ‘Now is the time to unlock action on net zero’

PAC tells Treasury to put environment at heart of spending decisions

Eon boss says automatic switching will discourage innovation

What would an Independent System Operator look like?

SSE expects to take £200m hit from pandemic

SSE has confirmed it expects to see its earnings reduced by roughly £200 million over its current financial year due to the effects of the coronavirus. In a third quarter trading update, the company said the impact of the pandemic on its operating profit is anticipated to fall towards the middle of the £150 million to £250 million range originally estimated in its last full-year results in June 2020.

UK risks EV charging blackspots without funding boost

The government should hold Contracts for Difference (CfD) style auctions to spur a five-fold increase in the growth of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure network this decade, a right of centre thinktank has urged.

Reform of ‘fragmented’ energy governance system needed

A shake-up of energy governance must go beyond splitting up the National Grid in order to avoid potentially stymying the delivery of the infrastructure required to deliver net-zero emissions, a former government adviser has warned.