Insulation tax break needed before homes are sold, say 40 energy & building leaders
Chancellor Rishi Sunak should offer tax incentives to home owners, spurring them to increase insulation in their homes before the properties are put up...
Public Sector De-carb Scheme gets a fresh £ 635 million, opens for bids in...
New funds to boost low carbon heating in Britain’s public buildings have been released by D-BEIS.
At a time when funds for energy efficiency measures...
Hunt ponders how to extend support for industries’ power bills beyond March
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reportedly asked Treasury officials to explore ways of prolonging into April & beyond the government’s protection of firms from their...
Crisis: Price cap “hits £2,800 in October”, says Brearley, as Sunak mulls stretching windfall...
Domestic retail tariffs capped under Ofgem’s tweaked regime look set to rocket to £2,800 per year only five months from now, the regulator’s boss...
Ofgem cushions SoLRs’ costs with £1.8 billion, as generators seek £20 billion loan to...
Britain’s power and gas retailers have reportedly convinced D-BEIS in principle to draw up a loan scheme, granting them leeway to fight a potential...
D-BEIS nixes Russian oligarchs’ 2 GW cross-Channel interconnector
Britain’s energy ministry has rejected a £1.2 billion plan by a major donor to the Conservative Party to build a 2GW power interconnector from...
Energy security: D-BEIS itemises cash support for preferred technologies
D-BEIS has followed up on Thursday’s energy security strategy, splitting out the technologies favoured to share the £375 million in subsidies earmarked by the...
Supermarkets team up with power co-ops to urge more green generation
High Street food giants including Tesco, M&S and Morrisons have joined forces with Community Energy England, calling for faster progress by PM Rishi Sunak...
Kwarteng to ‘refresh’ Energy Retail Market Strategy
Hard on the heels of Ofgem’s financial stress tests taking effect next month on UK retailers, the government has said it will review its...
Government finds £102 million at Christmas to prime new nuclear & hydrogen
The Sunak administration today presented early gifts to investors in nuclear power and advanced hydrogen, finding parcels of £77 million and £25 million respectively...
Onshore wind supported by 80% of Brits, as renewables resisters change minds or die
Britons’ resistance to renewable energy continues to weaken even among the old, the government’s long-term tracking study of public attitudes indicates.
A combined 87% of...
EDF agrees six month coal extension, as UK hedges against Putin
Fears over power shortages this winter sparked by the Ukraine war have prompted D-BEIS secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and the UK’s biggest remaining coal-fired generator...
Energy ministers silent and absent, as Ofgem raises price cap to £3,549 from October
As widely predicted three months ago, regulator Ofgem today confirmed a 80% rise in the increasingly discredited retail price ‘cap’, with average annual household...
Invest in renewables to fund nuke clean-up, councils urge Whitehall
A protest group centred on local councils claims to have found a way of meeting at least part of Britain’s multi-billion public bill for...
Energycos seeking public guarantees must have a Net Zero strategy, says Bank of England
Beleaguered energy retailers seeking public financial support to underwrite their hedging of gas and power trades must show Treasury civil servants their detailed plans...
Shapps greenlights Sizewell C, subsidised with £679 million of public cash
D-BEIS secretary of state Grant Shapps today confirmed the government’s approval for - and £679 million underpinning of - the 3.2GW Sizewell C nuclear...
Energy ministry “drags its feet” as Britain falls further behind on buildings’ carbon, MPs...
D-BEIS is presiding over Britain’s failure to control carbon emissions from new and existing buildings, according to MPs shadowing Whitehall’s energy ministry.
The Environmental Audit...
Shapps publishes suppliers’ performance on Energy Bill Support vouchers
Energy firms vary unacceptably in their success or lack of it in delivering energy savings vouchers to to customers struggling with high prepayment meter...
Mass capping of home energy bills at average £2,500 to end in April, Chancellor...
A review next April of recently deposed Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s £90 billion support for UK homes faced with drastically higher energy bills was signalled...
January saw “highest level of energy support for vulnerable households”, say government stats
Support for vulnerable home energy users, including customers on prepayment meters (PPM), is reaching the right targets, the government claims.
January alone saw 1.7 million...