CCC to Sunak & Coutinho: “You’re making near-term Net Zero harder to achieve“
Government ambiguities and watering down of Net Zero targets risk imperilling Britain’s progress to the nation’s 2050 goal, key scientific advisors warn today.
The Climate...
Breaking news: Emissions scheme to reduce sale of carbon allowances
Energy-intensive industries will be incentivised to reach their lowest-ever level of carbon emissions, under detailed plans published by the UK government & devolved administrations...
“Naysayers”, “wading through treacle” & policy voids dog Britain’s booming green sector, REA finds
Britain’s Net Zero commitments are being hampered by government hesitancy & ambiguity around the nation’s otherwise surging green economy, a leading trade association claims...
Steel city forges plan to swap gas for green hydrogen
Switching Sheffield’s world-renowned steel forges from gas to locally produced green hydrogen could cut CO2 emissions by as much as 40%, a government-funded study...
Aquind directors’ past re-emerges, as Portmouth deal confirmed
Campaigners fear a deal made this week by Portsmouth City Council is reviving plans from a development firm linked to a prominent Conservative donor...
Ministers walk Tory tightrope over new wind farms in England
England’s onshore wind developers were today preparing a tentative celebration of the Conservative government finally enacting, twelve months after they promised it, a reversal...
Coutinho debuts as Energy Secretary, while Shapps ascends to Defence
Debutant Cabinet member Claire Coutinho MP was this morning appointed Britain’s new Energy Secretary of State, as Grant Shapps was promoted to replace Ben...
Britain backs nuclear fuel supply for Ukraine, as Shapps visits Kyiv
Energy security secretary Grant Shapps met officials in Kyiv yesterday, in a show of support for Ukraine's power industry.
Shapps confirmed to energy bosses British...
“Hold to Net Zero, to preserve UK’s £1 trillion opportunity”; ADE to Sunak
Prime minister Rishi Sunak must maintain the Conservatives’ pledges to decarbonise energy by 2035 and eliminate carbon emissions by 2050, a trade association urges...
Energy groups welcome government’s biomass strategy
Seven trade groups representing suppliers & customers of biomass-based heat & power have welcomed the government’s plans to speed up Britain’s adoption of biomass...
Winser points way to halving connection delays to “mere” seven years
Paying communities & homeowners to accept new power lines, could follow from a radical shake-up released today, intended to free up Britain’s chronically congested...
Green rage greets Sunak’s “maxing out” of N Sea oil
Fury from environmental and green energy groups greeted prime minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement today that the government will press ahead in defiance of its...
Good Energy wades into row over EUA “lobbying to slow heat pumps“
A major all-renewables supplier has stepped into allegations that trade body the Energy & Utilities Alliance has been influencing ministers to delay Britain’s rollout...
Government hails Great British Nuclear, pumps £156 million into SMR contests
Grant Shapps today advanced £156 million of taxpayers’ money to boost development of nuclear energy, focusing on mini-reactors of a type adapted by Rolls...
“Move fast, and build things”: NG-ESO unveils 2023 Future Energy Scenarios
Lack of political will, not cash nor technology, is Britain’s drag anchor holding back “the network transformation of our lifetimes”, the boss of power...
Government ”dragging feet” in fostering green energy skills, say workers
The Sunak government’s lack of leadership towards transforming Britain’s skills base in energy is putting the jobs transition at risk, stranding workers in unwanted...
Geothermals on, as Green Heat Network Fund digs deep to hand out first of...
Britain’s biggest system drawing heat from deep rock formations to warm up to 4,000 homes cheaply is one of seven innovative projects receiving government...
Net Zero goals “will be missed”, say MPs, as ministers’ claims holed by delivery...
Britain will miss government goals to strip all carbon from electricity generation by 2035, without a delivery plan to remedy incomplete, contradictory policy from...
Xlinks secures £30 million more, preps for next stage of Africa-Devon pipeline
British renewables mega-engineers XLinks have taken on £ 30 million of new equity, secured to fund the next phase in building their 3,800 kilometre...
“1 million SMEs locked into high energy tariffs”, business groups warn
Trade groups representing up to four million small businesses have told the government that firms locked into expensive fixed price energy contracts should be...