Manchester and Octopus to create 300 jobs in Carbon Neutral alliance
Greater Manchester today launched its partnership with Octopus Energy, designed to make the city-region carbon neutral by 2038, 12 years ahead of Whitehall’s national...
Energy co-ops slam Johnson’s Net Zero Strategy
Leaders of England's 300-plus power co-operatives have slammed the Johnson administration's Net Zero Strategy. They say it shuns the work of thousands of hard-working...
Holyrood consults on doubling onshore wind by 2030
Scotland’s coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to boost onshore wind generation by as much as 12 GW this decade, adding to the...
Britain “has 40 fossil fuel projects awaiting planners’ approval before 2025”
The UK has a pipeline of at least 40 major projects in oil, gas or coal extraction and refining awaiting planning consent, environmental analysts...
Ofgem to consult in November on Price Cap reform
Britain’s energy regulator will consult in November on reform to the Price Cap mechanism regulating energy sales to 15 million UK domestic consumers.
Ofgem wrote...
Climate “way off track”, as rich nations fail to honour Paris’ $100 billion a...
Gloom deepened today around the UN CoP26 negotations beginning next week in Glasgow, with revelations of a serious overshoot in CO2 emissions and a...
COP26 is already the most talked about climate change conference ever but Squid game...
As world leaders prepare to descend on Scotland for the event’s October 31st kick-off, a study of more than 5.2 million online data points,...
Double speed consenting needed, plus taller masts, as UK lags on onshore wind, lobbyists...
Planning consents for onshore wind farms now running at 600MW each year are only half the rate needed to meet scientists’ recommendations, wind lobbyists...
MA Energy defaults from Balancing & Settlement Code
London-based business power retailer MA Energy has reportedly defaulted out of Elexon’s Balancing & Settlement Code, meaning it cannot take on further customers.
Elexon’s removal...
“Scrap the price cap”, urges Scottish Power’s boss
The boss of a major UK energy generator-retailer has called for the scrapping of Ofgem’s price cap on domestic power bills.
Interviewed by the BBC,...
Heat & Buildings Strategy: Johnson disappoints again
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s long awaited Heat & Buildings Strategy was this afternoon greeted with similar disappointment from energy campaigners and industry as the...
CRISIS LATEST: Colorado & Pure Planet latest to fail, as IEA spots oil following...
The continuing wholesale gas crisis has claimed its latest victims, with Ofgem today beginning its hunt to find a new provider for the quarter...
UK short of podium in global ‘Energy Trilemma’ rankings
At equal fourth place in global rankings, Britain is juggling better than most of 126 other nations the triple concerns of energy security of...
Latest edition of The Energyst available
The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App.
The Energyst is now published monthly,...
Kwarteng seeks to calm energy chiefs, as Price Cap’s architect calls for its overhaul
Beleaguered energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng won the support of Britain’s power bosses today, reassuring them that vulnerable consumers would be continue to be protected,...
“Keep North Sea taps open”, urges UK gas group, as China buys energy ‘at...
Britain’s oil and gas industry has urged ministers to fight the gas price crisis by maintaining current production and approving new North Sea fields...
Citizens Advice flags consumers’ £30 per month energy cost hike, as 3 more suppliers...
Thousands of domestic users moved to a new energy company because their supplier has gone bust stand to pay nearly £30 more per month,...
Starmer: £ 28 billion every year to decarb Britain, plus a Clean Air...
Britain’s biggest opposition party has pledged to spend up to £ 28 billion every year this decade to strip carbon out of the UK’s...
SSE pledges £153 million to enter offshore wind in Japan
SSE Renewables has allied with one of Japan's biggest wind power developers, to pursue offshore projects around the nation’s islands.
The Perth-based generator-developer today said...
Stanlow owners Essar Oil UK in talks with HMRC over £223 million in unpaid...
The brothers owning Britain’s second biggest oil gas refinery, Stanlow near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, are in talks with UK tax authorities over an...