Brearley calls for two-tier plan to speed grid connections
Waits of a decade and more to link new wind and solar farms into transmission grids present the biggest risk to the UK missing...
Play nice with Brussels to slash British wholesale costs, Energy UK urges
Better co-operation between Britain and the EU on energy trading & carbon pricing could cut wholesale energy costs by hundreds of millions of pounds...
Business Energy: Third Party Costs at an all-time high
Business Energy: Third Party Costs at an all-time high
Paul Miller, Sales Director at renewable energy company Drax says "Wholesale energy prices have risen significantly...
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...
Britain lags on coherent hydrogen policy, says RenewablesUK
Policymakers’ lack of joined-up thinking on hydrogen as a low carbon industrial saviour risks the UK losing out to economies better managed to embrace...
Shell earns £7.6 billion in 2023’s first quarter
Oil & gas supermajor Shell exceeded market hopes, posting record profits of £7.6 billion for the first three months of the year, it told...
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...
Target £10 billion to insulate England’s 1 million coldest rentals, big cities tell Sunak
The government must commit £10 billion now to bring the nation’s million worst insulated private rented homes to energy efficiency performance level “C” by...
France and Norway feed UK’s return to net electricity imports
2023’s opening quarter saw an end to the UK’s previous nine months as a net exporter of power, energy data analysts EnAppSys have revealed.
The...
Government extends cost rebates for high energy industrial sectors
Energy-intensive companies in selected sectors are eligible from today for twelve more months of cash support from public funds.
Whitehall is holding out possible savings...
Ofgem persuades powercos to ease up installations of prepayment meters
Britain’s consumer champion tasked by law with protecting power consumers has backed Ofgem’s new deal slowing power companies’ readiness to instal prepayment meters in...
“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...
Government to tweak CfDs in quest of wider recognition & more capacity
Britain’s hugely successful flagship policy supporting clean electricity is to be reformed, as ministers ponder extending its rewards to developers for the sector's non-financial...
”Another government green flop”: EUA lambasts ministers on Boiler Upgrade Scheme
Poor performance figures for numbers of heat pump installations achieved under the government’s subsidised Boiler Upgrade Scheme have drawn scathing criticism from trade body...
Hydrogen blended into gas grid “unfairly expensive to consumers”, 20 organisations tell Shapps
Boosting Britain’s nascent hydrogen economy by pumping the gas in blends over established grids will impose unfair costs on businesses & households, campaigners including...
Brexit bonus? Octopus invests in solar potential of Land of the Rising Sun
Japan was confirmed this morning as British clean electricity generator Octopus Energy’s foothold into more Asian expansion.
Greg Jackson’s privately held behemoth-in-the-making announced today its...
UK energy market pivots toward renewables amid Russian sanctions and fossil fuel concerns
Offshore wind leads renewables surge as UK pushes for energy security and low-carbon power, says Energy Industries Council report.
The UK energy market is shifting...
April’s end of Energy Bill Relief threatens 370,000 small firms, says FSB
The end of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme eight days from today could threaten the future of hundreds of thousands of small firms, according...
Government energy supports “misses out on big firms’ needs”, nPower finds
Two-thirds of larger businesses believe the Energy Bills Discount Scheme, due to come in next month - won’t go far enough to support them,...