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UK energy

  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
    LexNuclear energy
    Plug and play nuclear reactors remain a shot in the dark

    A new UK state body might ease investor fears but any renaissance is likely to be slow

    Two employees look up to the sky from within the construction site at the nuclear plant
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    UK government will not challenge legal bid to block Rosebank oilfield

    Decision casts doubt on the future of the project, one of the North Sea’s biggest

    The protestors hold placards saying ‘Stop Rosebank’ and ‘No new oil’
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Drax Group PLC
    Drax sustainability ruling clears path for subsidy extension

    UK’s biggest power station to pay £25mn for historic data failings but Ofgem probe finds no evidence of environmental breaches

    The Drax power station with a rape seed field in the foreground
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Moral Money
    The rise of virtual power plants Premium content

    Demand-side schemes support the grid by nudging consumers to change electricity consumption habits

    A close-up of an electric car charging at a Tesla charging point in Breda. The image shows the charging cable plugged into the car's charging port.
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    GB Energy
    UK starts hiring for roll out of new state-owned energy company

    Contested location of GB Energy’s headquarters to be announced soon, says minister

    A wind farm near Thurso, Caithness, Scotland
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    British household energy price cap to rise 10% from October

    Decision by regulator Ofgem means average yearly bill will be £1,717

    A smart meter display showing energy usage and cost is placed on a kitchen counter with a gas stove burner lit in the background. The display reads £73.24 and indicates the energy used so far this month is 341 kWh.
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    ‘People are walking away’: UK windfall tax hits North Sea oil investment

    Policy uncertainty and Labour’s levy plans threaten fall in production and jobs in ageing oil basin, executives warn

    Ping Petroleum’s Excalibur on the Cromarty Firth
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    LexUtilities
    UK’s new electricity highway will not break through the power jam Premium content

    Upgrading grid is such a vast undertaking that Eastern Green Link 2 barely makes a dent in it

    Dun Law wind farm in Dun Law, Scotland
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Hong Kong investor buys UK wind farms for £350mn

    Consortium leader CK Infrastructure, controlled by Li Ka-shing’s family, also announces secondary listing in London

    Wind turbines on a flat, treeless Scottish upland
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Iberdrola SA
    Spain’s Iberdrola buys UK’s Electricity North West for €5bn

    Britain becomes largest market for Madrid-based group, which already owns Scottish Power

    A sign with Iberdrola’s logo outside an electrical substation in Spain
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Labour raises budget for renewable projects to £1.5bn

    Bulk of auction funding will go towards offshore wind farms

    Offshore wind turbines
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    UK Labour’s tax pledge will test plan to cut North Sea emissions, warns Equinor boss

    Electrification of Rosebank field will be more ‘challenging’ under new government’s fiscal regime, says oil and gas chief

    Equinor’s floating production storage and offloading unit for Rosebank
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    GB Energy
    GB Energy tie-up with Crown Estate raises questions about UK wind sector

    Government claims partnership will lead to up to 30GW of new offshore developments securing leases by 2030

    Ed Miliband
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Centrica PLC
    Centrica shares tumble as buyback disappoints

    British Gas owner warns of ‘challenging’ investment environment in green energy

    A Centrica employee walks along a gangway on the Rough gas platform, in the North Sea
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    State energy company to team up with Crown Estate to boost green power

    UK ministers say partnership will help leverage up to £60bn of private investment

  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    UK set to miss 2030 clean power targets, experts warn

    Analysis by Cornwall Insight points to scale of challenge in transitioning electricity system away from fossil fuels

    Offshore wind turbines
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Supply chain squeeze threatens to blow UK wind power plan off course

    Disruptions in the sector are forcing some green energy developers to defer key projects

    An oil and gas platform sits in the Moray Firth behind a ship carrying Wind turbine components
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    LexRenewable energy
    UK’s clean energy sprint will be slow burn for investors Premium content

    The reality for the power sector is that improvements will take some time

    Offshore floating wind turbines during assembly
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    UK green taxes on electricity bills deter EV take-up, say energy suppliers

    Octopus and EDF say shifting the charges to gas bills would encourage families to invest in new cars

    The battery of an electric car is recharged at a roadside charging station
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Labour urged to boost budget for new offshore wind projects

    Power generator RWE says government risks securing ‘less than half’ of new capacity needed under current support scheme

    Tom Glover
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    The risky holes in Keir Starmer’s green plan

    Big questions surround the new government’s admirable but detail-light goals

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    InterviewGB Energy
    GB Energy has opportunity to lead on new tech, says Labour donor

    Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince stresses he would not seek support for his own projects from planned state-owned company

    Ecotricity founder Dale Vince
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Bulk of UK onshore renewable energy projects fail to get beyond planning stage

    Analysis shows challenges country faces in hitting clean energy targets

    A solar farm in Anglesey, Wales
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Octopus to repay £3bn of Bulb nationalisation costs

    Treasury set to recoup almost all of what was forecast to be UK’s costliest bailout since 2008

    A digital advertisement of Octopus Energy is seen on a digital screen along the street
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Nuclear energy
    Sellafield nuclear waste site pleads guilty to IT security breaches

    UK state-owned operator accepts cyber security was ‘not sufficiently adhered to’

    Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria
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