Lidl GB has joined the United Nations Global Compact, committing to align its business operations and reporting with the UN’s principles on human rights, labour, the environment, and anti‑corruption.

Wind and solar power have grown faster than almost anyone predicted but projecting their future expansion remains difficult. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed what they call a computational “time machine” or a model that outperforms existing projection methods by using AI techniques to analyse historical growth patterns across countries.

H2NorthEast, a carbon capture-enabled hydrogen production facility being developed in Teesside, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Northern Gas Networks, the gas distributor for the North of England, to pursue opportunities to provide low carbon hydrogen to industrial end users across North East England.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” may or may not have been said by Churchill, but the idea remains the same in energy, with a new IEA report exploring the recent unprecedented wave of global energy policy making and government spending.

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has issued a paper, warning that the UK is currently in a “self-reinforcing high-cost, low-electrification trap”.

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has reported that two solar records were broken this week, with the highest generating 14GW.

Farming technologies from robotics to AI are to be funded with £50m of private and public investment, the Farming Minister has announced.

Rolls-Royce has finally got the go ahead to build a small modular reactor (SMR).

WRAP will launch a new recycling campaign on waste, with research showing 79 per cent of UK households still throw away items that could be recycled.

Recycling of materials has been going on for, well since ever, but more recent concerns have focussed on industrial scale recycling of metals, plastics and other items. However, there are the unloved things that are harder, and more expensive to recycle.

New analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has found that the UK’s electricity supply has become ever more British in the last year, with a higher proportion of the energy used to supply power coming from UK-based sources and a growing independence from foreign fuels such as gas imports for gas power stations.

A £380m Government boost will support the building of one of the largest gigafactories in Europe.