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The US Department of the Interior has announced two agreements with Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind to voluntarily end their offshore wind leases and make financial investments in fossil fuel energy projects.
Posted: 28/04/2026
Centrica Energy has signed an agreement with the largest biomethane facility in Ireland, currently under development near Cork.
Posted: 28/04/2026
M&S is joining an industry-first coalition turning surplus food from supply chains into millions of free meals
Posted: 27/04/2026
Octopus Energy has surpassed eight million customers in the UK, reinforcing the leading position it first gained in January 2025, the first time the market lead had changed hands since privatisation in 1986.
Posted: 27/04/2026
As the UN climate summits continue to end in stalemate, a group of countries is meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia, to try and thrash out an end to fossil fuels.
Posted: 24/04/2026
A report from the City of London Corporation and UK Carbon Markets Forum estimates the UK carbon credit economy currently contributes around £1.2bn to the economy.
Posted: 24/04/2026
BP shareholders have rejected key board resolutions at its AGM, with a record vote against its new chair Albert Manifold.
Posted: 24/04/2026
A new snapshot analysis from EV charging industry body ChargeUK has shown that the cost of charging an EV on the public networks is now lower on average than petrol or diesel for the first time in over a year.
Posted: 24/04/2026
Vattenfall is to sell its share of the Muir Mhòr floating offshore wind farm (FOWF), with Fred Olsen Seawind assuming 100 per cent ownership.
Posted: 23/04/2026
At 11.30 on 22 April 2026, fossil fuels accounted for just two per cent of electricity supply, or about 799MW, according to data from the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
Posted: 23/04/2026
The Greening AI Data Centres Coalition brings together nine global bodies to set sustainability benchmarks for one of the world’s fastest-growing building types.
Posted: 23/04/2026
EasyJet Holidays latest Impact Report has revealed that it has achieved a 65 per cent increase in certified sustainable hotels and continued investment in lower-carbon initiatives.
Posted: 22/04/2026
Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) has initiated a second climate case against Shell. The climate organisation is demanding that the company stops drilling for new oil and gas fields.
Posted: 22/04/2026
With 100 organisations and a ten-year collaborative programme, a new pact is seeking to transform packaging systems in the UK.
Posted: 22/04/2026
DESNZ has revealed its plans to reform electricity pricing, including long‑term fixed‑price contracts for renewables.
Posted: 21/04/2026
Speaking at the Good Growth Foundation, the Energy Secretary has set out sweeping reforms to potentially stabilise energy supply and improve renewable infrastructure.
Posted: 21/04/2026
A collaboration between Mars and Ofi (Olam Food Ingredients) is seeking to reduce the carbon footprint of the cocoa supply chain.
Posted: 20/04/2026
Wind output reached 29.2TWh in first three months of 2026, supported by storm activity in January and making wind the largest renewable source in Great Britain.
Posted: 20/04/2026
In Circle Economy’s report, Circularity Gap Report 2026: The Value Gap, suggests that, each year, €25.4tr in economic value is lost due to resource inefficiencies, premature product disposal, and underutilised assets.
Posted: 17/04/2026
Coventry University has completed work to connect its campus to the city’s district energy network.
Posted: 17/04/2026
The Government will scrap the Carbon Price Support (CPS) that places a levy on fossil fuel power stations for emissions as the cost of energy continues to rise and places the UK at a competitive disadvantage as well as driving up energy poverty.
Posted: 17/04/2026
Amazon has made the largest renewable energy investment in Australia with nine new power purchase agreements (PPA) that will add 430MW of clean energy to the grid and bring the company's total renewable capacity to nearly 1GW (990MW) nationwide once fully operational.
Posted: 16/04/2026
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.
Posted: 16/04/2026
LSEG Deals Intelligence Sustainable Finance Review has reported the latest developments in sustainable finance, with sustainable finance bonds now totalling $228.5bn during the first quarter of 2026, a 6 per cent decrease compared to 2025 levels and the slowest opening first quarter period for sustainable finance bonds since the first quarter of 2023.
Posted: 16/04/2026
Under new connection process from DESNZ, 221GW of projects that applied for firm connection agreements, but were not needed for 2035 or were no longer progressing, have been moved out of the main queue.
Posted: 16/04/2026
Farming technologies from robotics to AI are to be funded with £50m of private and public investment, the Farming Minister has announced.
Posted: 15/04/2026
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.
Posted: 14/04/2026
Rolls-Royce has finally got the go ahead to build a small modular reactor (SMR).
Posted: 14/04/2026
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.
Posted: 14/041/2026
Neso has said it will need to intervene more frequently to stabilise the network stable when there are surges in solar generation.
Posted: 14/04/2026
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.
Posted: 14/04/2026
“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.
Posted: 13/042026
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.
Posted: 13/042026
A £380m Government boost will support the building of one of the largest gigafactories in Europe.
Posted: 10/04/2026
Great British Energy and the Government are to invest £86.5m in a UK-first hydrogen project in South Yorkshire.
Posted: 10/04/2026
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.
Posted: 10/04/2026
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”.
Posted: 10/04/2026
New data shows sustained growth in science-based and net-zero targets through 2025, leading to 10,000 companies with validated targets globally in January 2026.
Posted: 10/04/2026
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) have published a paper on natural catastrophe risk management with a proposed a shared backstop of €10bn to €65bn.
Posted: 10/04/2026
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has reported that two solar records were broken this week, with the highest generating 14GW.
Posted: 09/04/2026
Issue 8 of NS&I’s Green Savings Bonds have gone on sale. Money invested in the Bonds will finance green projects as part of the UK Government Green Financing Framework.
Posted: 09/04/2026
The UK's largest solar farm has gained approval from DESNZ after a planning inquiry and despite local objections.
Posted: 09/04/2026
The world’s first turbine with carbon-reduced steel tower and recyclable rotor blades has been installed in Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm.
Posted: 09/04/2026
Drax has completed the acquisition of Flexitricity, the UK-based optimiser of flexible energy assets.
Posted: 09/04/2026
Actors David Thewlis and Jason Watkins, the main characters from Channel 4's Dirty Business, have launched an official government petition to hold a referendum on public ownership of water supply.
Posted: 08/04/2026
EV registrations have risen 24.2 per cent to reach record high, in a UK new car market that overall grew by 6.6 per cent in March, typically the busiest month of the year, with 380,627 new vehicles registered, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Posted: 08/04/2026
New EV in the US rose 5.8 per cent month over month, as the energy crisis deepened.
Posted: 07/04/2026
EV-only leasing company Octopus Electric Vehicles, has offered new customers on-street charging from 22.5p per kWh.
Posted: 07/04/2026
Eco Wave Power has announced that it has successfully completed a trial of its wave energy pilot.
Posted: 07/04/2026
The heads of the International Energy Agency, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank Group have come together to ensure a coordinated response to the energy and economic impacts of the war in the Middle East.
Posted: 07/04/2026
Sustainable ratings are now being applied by Autotrader on new car reviews to help buyers better understand the overall environmental impact of a car.
Posted: 02/04/2026
Recent events have driven several countries to introduce measures of fuel rationing or effective tax hikes on higher incomes to reduce the pressures at forecourt pumps or oil heated homes.
Posted: 01/04/2026
People’s Pension has enacted an updated climate approach, aiming to align its investment strategy more closely with real-world developments and long-term member outcomes.
Posted: 01/04/2026
2025 saw total renewable power capacity reach 5,149GW after the addition of 692 GW, or a 15.5 per cent of annual increase, according to new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Posted: 01/04/2026
Port Talbot’s development as the first port in the Celtic Sea specifically developed to support floating offshore wind (FLOW) has received Government backing of ‘up to’ £64m, subject to final clearance by the Competition and Markets Authority.
Posted: 31/03/2026
The Church of England Pensions Board has said that it will vote against the reappointment of directors at banks that have materially backtracked on their climate commitments during the current AGM season.
Posted: 30/03/2026
The Crown Estate has announced a new process ahead of an intended official launch of a new leasing round, Offshore Wind Leasing Round 6, in the first half of 2027.
Posted: 30/03/2026
The BSI (British Standards Institute) has published guidelines for fund managers designed to strengthen the integrity of sustainable investments and address the escalating issue of ‘greenwashing’ in the financial sector.
Posted: 26/03/2026
ClientEarth lawyers believe that there may be evidence suggesting that certain parts of the gas industry joined together to influence the development of the UK home heating mark
Posted: 26/03/2026
The conflict in the Middle East as seen a dramatic rise in the number of British households, with Octopus Energy, amongst others, seeing record‑breaking demand, with the company logging its biggest‑ever month for enquiries and sales.
Posted: 27/03/26
Octopus Electric Vehicles (Octopus EV) has seen EV leasing enquiries rise by 36 per cent since the start of the conflict in the Middle East.
Posted: 26/03/2026
SSE’s Ferrybridge Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in West Yorkshire is fully operational.
Posted: 26/03/2026
Vestas has announced plans to establish a nacelle and hub factory in Scotland to meet the growing demand for offshore wind in the UK and Europe.
Posted: 26/03/2026
Neso’s Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) will undergo a major change following approval from Ofgem. For the first time, year-round participation will be encouraged by offering incentives to both consumers and businesses.
Posted: 26/03/2026
Research from wealth management company Quilter has found that more than four in ten (42 per cent) investors want the option to invest in companies enabling the green transition.
Posted: 25/03/2026
The Zero Emissions Truck and Van grants and the Depot Charging Scheme have been released to aid the adoption of electric trucks and vans and install chargers at depots.
Posted: 25/03/2026
DESNZ has issued a briefing note on the future of interconnectors, and how it sees the their adoption, growth and implementation.
Posted: 25/03/2026
Somewhat contradicting Alex Depledge, the Government’s appointed Entrepreneurship Advisor, who has been dismissive of SMEs saying that the Government should focus on start-ups and scale-ups, the Government’s latest release calls SMEs “the engine room” behind its “number one mission” of growth.
Posted: 24/03/2026
More than 22,000 electronic devices have been donated to digitally excluded people across the UK as part of the IT Reuse for Good Charter, with the Digital Poverty Alliance.
Posted: 24/03/2026
Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England.
Posted: 24/03/2026
A new analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit has found that many EV drivers might soon find themselves saving the equivalent of an extra £200 a year compared to petrol car drivers as oil prices reach new heights.
Posted: 23/03/2026
Upgrades to the UK’s air defence radar systems will also have an unexpected benefit in unlocking offshore wind capacity.
Posted: 23/03/2026
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has stated that the Earth’s climate is now more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the atmosphere and ocean and melting of ice.
Posted: 23/03/2026
The European Commission has been toying with making alterations to its green policies pretty much since introduced, and in fluid times it may be no bad thing.
Posted: 20/03/2026
Reform UK will scrap VAT and green levies on household energy bills if they form the next government.
Posted: 19/03/2026
TotalEnergies are being sued over its responsibility for climate change in a case that could have global repercussions.
Posted: 19/03/2026
The Government has published England’s first ever Land Use Framework, the plan for delivering development, nature restoration, renewable energy and food security.
Posted: 19/03/2026
A new deal has been launched to ensure Wales meets its renewable energy targets.
Posted: 18/03/2026
Sustainable practices could increase farm profits by £1.6bn annually by 2035, driven by lower input costs and greater resilience.
Posted: 18/03/2026
Fashion’s considerable water use comes with real costs that are systematically pushed out of view at the same time as brands continue to publish sustainability commitments.
Posted: 18/03/2026
DESNZ has launched a tool to help the beleaguered pubs, restaurant and hotel sector reduce energy bills.
Posted: 17/03/2026
Enquiries regarding solar panels have jump 27 per cent as UK households seek to shield themselves from war-driven energy price shocks.
Posted: 17/03/2026
Tara Singh, the chief executive of RenewableUK, has joined Octopus’ Greg Jackson on calling for a more pragmatic approach to the UK’s transition and allow the North Sea to be opened.
Posted: 16/03/2026
Shadow Pensions Minister, Helen Whately, has warned that mandating pension scheme investment would represent a "quiet power grab" by the Government.
Posted: 16/03/2026
Weather is currently a very political issue, and any unpreparedness for the effects of climate change fuels public anger.
Posted: 16/03/2026
The Energy Secretary has outlined new measures to go “further and faster” including ‘plug-and-go’ low-cost solar panels sold via supermarkets and bringing forward the Government’s next annual renewables auction (AR8) to July.
Posted: 16/03/2026
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published its first-ever compliance report for the Vehicle Emissions Trading Scheme (VETS), that underpins the UK’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate.
Posted: 13/03/2026
As nature-related risks move rapidly from sustainability reporting into core strategic decision making, companies are facing increasing pressure from regulators, investors, and supply chain disruptions to integrate biodiversity considerations into enterprise strategy
Posted: 13/03/2026
The first network operator in the UK is now offering connection requests automatically within seconds, including for EV chargers that enable V2G.Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology.
Posted: 13/03/2026
National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) has agreed to pay £20m into Ofgem’s Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme.
Posted: 12/03/2026
Ofgem has granted a licence for Tesla to be a domestic and business energy supplier in the UK.
Posted: 12/03/2026
The cost of reaching net-zero could be less than the cost of a single fossil-fuel price shock and provide total energy security, according to a new report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
Posted: 11/03/2026
Constraints on the grid mean that AI datacentres could squeeze out housebuilding if Government proposals are carried forward.
Posted: 11/03/2026
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has introduced a new set of ESG scores and sustainability analytics to be integrated across a range of platforms, including LSEG Workspace.
Posted: 10/03/2026
No bird collisions were detected during 19 months of monitoring at Vattenfall’s Aberdeen offshore wind farm.
Posted: 10/03/2026
Farmers could turn more of the UK's farmland into productive agroforestry systems if they had access to trusted advice and real farm examples, according to new research from the University of Reading.
Posted: 10/03/2026
Given the volatile, to say the least, situation in Iran, the Middle East, DESNZ has issued a fact sheet to dispel some erroneous reporting and answer public questions.
Posted: 09/03/2026
Lidl GB has today announced has today announced a new food waste reduction target setting a target to reduce food waste by 70 per cent by the end of FY2030, after revealing it is on track to exceed a 40 per cent reduction by FY2025.
Posted: 09/03/2026
The Electricals Recycling Fund 2026, making £1m available to make it easier for UK householders to recycle their electricals, has been launched by Material Focus.
Posted: 09/03/2026
Greg Jackson, the founder of Octopus Energy, is calling on Ed Miliband to reopen the North Sea to fossil fuel extraction to strengthen the country’s energy supplies as war in the Middle East pushes oil and gas prices higher.
Posted: 05/03/2026
The first 100 schools across England have now installed Great British Energy solar panels in a programme that will ultimately benefit around 250 schools.
Posted: 05/03/2026
The European Commission is expected to publish its proposal for an Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA), the first legislative initiative under the Clean Industrial Deal.
Posted: 04/03/2026
The Government creating over £270m of investment for greener shipping and ports across the UK as part of a £448m commitment to support clean maritime innovation.
Posted: 04/03/2026
The ongoing situation in Iran, and the corresponding rise in gas prices, throws several spanners in energy and economic planning.
Posted: 04/03/2026
The Iris Prize, a global award supporting young environmental leaders, has opened its applications for 2026. Now in its fifth year, it aims to support youth-led climate at a time when funding is being cut.
Posted: 04/03/2026
Huawei is to supply batteries to Aggreko for a project in Brazil, creating the country's largest energy storage system to date, matched with solar plants and microgrids, across the Amazon.
Posted: 03/03/2026
New battery capacity of 27.1 GWh was installed across the EU in 2025, with over half (55 per cent) coming from utility-scale systems, confirming large-scale storage as the main engine of market growth.
Posted: 02/03/2026
The Department for Transport (DfT) has released figures that show that there are now “considerably more” public EV chargers than fuel pumps in the UK.
Posted: 02/03/2026
Wales has taken the next step in tackling the nature and climate emergencies after the Senedd passed the Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill establishing a new framework for environmental protection, creating an independent watchdog and empowering Welsh Ministers to set legally binding biodiversity targets.
Posted: 27/02/2026
The UN has approved the first credits to be issued under the UN carbon market established by the Paris Agreement.
Posted: 27/02/2026
Waitrose has become the first UK supermarket to suspend mackerel sourcing over concerns of overfishing.
Posted: 27/02/2026
The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative is officially relaunched, with 250 asset managers signed on to the updated Commitment Statement.
Posted: 26/02/2026
Climate policies continued to proliferate globally in 2025 according to the LSE Grantham Research Institute.
Posted: 26/02/2026
The UK's first geothermal power plant will start producing electricity in the near future.
Posted: 26/02/2026
French utility company Engie is to acquire 100 per cent of UK Power Networks (UKPN), the UK electricity distributor in a £10.5bn deal.
Posted: 26/02/2026
Farmers in England will continue to be paid for environmental work, with the Government confirming the details of its relaunched its green funding scheme.
Posted: 25/02/2026
Ofgem has confirmed the energy price cap for April will fall by 7 per cent.
Posted: 25/02/2026
The Climate Change Committee (CCC)’s latest assessment of the Scottish Government’s progress in reducing emissions has stated that the immediate climate targets are now within reach.
Posted: 25/02/2026
Green hydrogen is set to play a major part of the climate transition, but large-scale hydrogen production requires sustainable ways of managing water resources to avoid giving rise to water shortages and conflicts with agriculture over access.
Posted: 25/02/2026
RenewableUK Cymru has issued a clear challenge to the next Welsh Government to back a clean power strategy saying that otherwise it will risk billions in investment, thousands of skilled jobs and millions in community funding flowing elsewhere in the UK.
Posted: 24/02/2026
The GSMA, a global organisation for the mobile ecosystem, has launched a new fund offering grants of £100,000 to £200,000 to support small and growing enterprises using mobile and digital technologies to accelerate the green transition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Posted: 24/02/2026
The Adam Smith Institute’s (ASI) Electricity Tracker reveals that UK industrial electricity prices are 81 per cent higher than in France.
Posted: 24/02/2026
NESO is seeking views on developing the Regional Energy Strategic Plans (RESP) methodology.
Posted: 23/02/2026
INEOS has announced a €300m investment supported by French government grants that will deliver the next phase of its Lavera regeneration plan and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 331,000 tonnes per annum.
Posted: 23/02/2026
Microsoft has met its 2025 renewable energy goal of purchasing enough renewable energy to match all of the electricity used by all its datacentres, buildings and campuses by 2025.
Posted: 19/02/2026
Geothermal energy could replace 42 per cent of EU coal and gas as advances in drilling and enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) using techniques adapted from the oil and gas sector now unlock heat from much deeper, hotter rock layers.
Posted: 19/02/2026
Energy technologies now represent multi-trillion dollar global markets, with the energy sector increasingly becoming an innovator across batteries, transformers, turbines, motors and heat exchangers.
Posted: 18/02/2026
Octopus Fleet, a newly launched product aims to bring fleet needs under one roof, allowing businesses of any size and at any stage of the EVs journey from fleet payment tools to all-around tariffs and EV charger, solar or battery installations.
Posted: 18/02/2026
Mark Cox, head of nuclear and wholesale, and Mark Williams in the strategy and policy team at EDF have been sharing their, and their company’s, thoughts on constraint costs.
Posted: 17/02/2026
The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change has called on the EU to urgently strengthen its policy framework for effective and coherent adaptation, noting that whilst rapid and sustained mitigation is needed to limit future warming, strengthening adaptation is also crucial to prepare for unavoidable temperature increases.
Posted: 17/02/2026
The UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) has already allowed a £1bn investment from Octopus.
Posted: 17/02/2026
Octopus Energy Generation is investing nearly $1bn in California’s next generation clean technology by backing two carbon removal companies using grassland restoration and reforestation to transform degraded land into carbon-absorbing assets.
Posted: 16/02/2026
Rural areas, including Scotland and South-West are being left behind in the UK’s EV transition according to new analysis.
Posted: 16/02/2026
The rapid expansion of renewable energy is being used to meet rising electricity demands rather than displacing fossil fuels, according to new research by the University of Sussex.
Posted: 16/02/2026
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a report on the progress of battery technology, noting that the price of batteries has fallen dramatically in recent years to the point that the cost of installing battery storage projects has dropped about 40 per cent since 2024.
Posted: 16/02/2026
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) has questioned the Governments’s decision to crackdown on North Sea oil production.
Posted: 13/02/2026
Latest figures from the newly minted Heat Pump Association (HPA UK) show that UK heat pump sales reached record highs in 2025, with more than 125,000 units sold.
Posted: 12/02/2026
Centrica Energy and Seneca Resources have agreed the first long-term deal to support independently verified methane emissions from an MiQ-certified US natural gas producer, helping to underpin reductions over time.
Posted: 12/02/2026
The Trump administration, not generally noted for its environmental concerns, will revoke a major plank in the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, the White House has announced.
Posted: 12/02/2026
Combined, used electrified car transactions rose 30.9 per cent on 2024 to a record 770,378 units as the UK’s used car market grew in 2025.
Posted: 11/02/2026
One year after the European Green Bond Standard (EUGBS) went into effect, the more than €22bn in bonds have been issued, with consistent oversubscription.
Posted: 11/02/2026
MEPs have backed amendments to the EU Climate Law by 413 votes to 226 and 12 abstentions, to include a new, intermediate and binding 2040 EU climate target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent compared to 1990 levels.
Posted: 11/02/2026
Naked Energy has released its VirtuMAX, a new ground-mount solar thermal technology that uses up to 85 per cent of land area, compared to 40 per cent for conventional solar technologies.
Posted: 11/02/2026
A greater number of communities will be allowed to control their renewable energy projects, as Great British Energy and Government publish the Local Power Plan, with £1bn of funding to support locally owned energy generation projects such as solar panels on libraries, leisure centres and welfare clubs.
Posted: 10/02/2026
A study by Arup reveals that “billions in socioeconomic benefits” would be created if major investment in electricity grid modernisation is sustained to 2040.
Posted: 10/02/2026
A new collaborative initiative by UK Power Networks DSO working with National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED), Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is set to make local energy planning faster, simpler and more effective for local authorities across the country.
Posted: 10/02/2026
DESNZ has announced record levels of new solar and onshore wind projects as part of its latest renewables auction.
Posted: 10/02/2026
Europeans remain convinced on the need for an energy transition, with the UK leading the way on public support.
Posted: 09/02/2026
SolarPower Europe’s EU Battery Storage Market Review 2025 has re[ported that the EU installed 27.1GWh of new battery energy storage systems (BESS), marking the twelfth consecutive year of record growth.
Posted: 09/02/2026
Offshore windfarms face several obstacles, but one less considered is mines from the Second World War.
Posted: 09/02/2026
Reports suggest that the Government plans to cut climate finance for the developing world.
Posted: 06/02/2026
Cable manufacturer Prysmian has been awarded a £2bn contract to supply the cable for National Grid Electricity Transmission and SP Energy Networks subsea Eastern Green Link 4 project.
Posted: 06/02/2026
According to new data from the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), renewable energy systems reached a new high, with an installation every few minutes.
Posted: 06/02/2026
Drax has announced that up to 350 job roles could be at risk as it considers “evolving its strategy".
Posted: 05/02/2026
A $4.8m partnership between the Bezos Earth Fund and The Earthshot Prize will see 16 projects a year for three years from the Prize’s pool of nominations, but not finalists, gain support to accelerate projects in climate mitigation and nature protection.
Posted: 05/02/2026
EV charging company Ohme has reported that its Crowdflex energy trials have been successful but are urging the Government to use more “joined up” thinking.
Posted: 05/02/2026
The EC has adopted the first set of standards to certify activities that permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Posted: 04/02/2026
Part of the Government’s “Golden Age” of nuclear has been fired-up with the publishing of a framework to stimulate private investment in innovative nuclear technologies across the country, providing a clear route to market and support for credible projects to get them off the ground.
Posted: 04/02/2026
Global non-profit alliance Cascale has published Navigating Global Water Regulation: Implications for the Textile and Consumer Goods Sector, examining how intensifying water scarcity and tightening regulation are reshaping the operating environment for the apparel, textile, and wider consumer goods sector.
Posted: 04/02/2026
Ørsted has signed a €1.44bn agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its fifth flagship fund, Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V), to divest its entire European onshore business.
Posted: 03/02/2026
The Government’s Warm Homes Plan announced the establishment of a strategic partnership with the green finance sector to build and diversify the range of green financing options available to homeowners.
Posted: 03/02/2026
McCain’s third Farm of the Future, a 202-hectare working blueprint for regenerative agriculture, will be opened in North Yorkshire this year.
Posted: 03/02/2026
A record number of solar panels were installed last year according to official figures.
Posted: 02/02/2026
Great Western Railway has introduced the UK’s first battery-only powered train into passenger service.
Posted: 02/02/2026
The UK’s only dedicated onshore wind blade plant has been enabled with a Government intervention.
Posted: 02/02/2026
The National Wealth Fund has set out its ambition to drive more than £100bn of investment into the companies, infrastructure and supply chains for the UK.
Posted: 02/02/2026
The Hamburg Declaration, signed at the North Sea Summit in Hamburg should secure 100GW of energy from joint clean‑energy projects in shared waters
Posted: 02/02/2026
Elon Musk, talking at WEF in Davos, has painted a picture of an AI, space and solar future, combining the three stands together in an optimistic view of the future.
Posted: 23/01/2026
Authors from Stanford University, Harvard University Business School (HBS), University of Amsterdam and London Business School have examined the impact of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) on investing; and found it failing to find any new inflows.
Posted: 23/01/2026
A new report from the Sierra Club finds that most major US public pensions are not investing in climate solution strategies.
Posted: 22/01/2026
The Heat Pump Association (HPA), Ground Source Heat Pump Association (GSHPA) and Heat Pump Federation (HPF) have united and rebranded as the Heat Pump Association UK (HPA UK) as a single voice for the UK heat pump sector.
Posted: 22/01/2026
The Government has launched a £15bn Warm Homes Plan, promising grants and low-cost finance to upgrade millions of homes and cut household energy bills.
Posted: 21/02/2026
Ford has partnered with Ohme, allowing Ford dealers across Northern Ireland to provide complementary Ohme chargers to customers.
Posted: 20/01/2026
UK Power Networks is trialling a technology that maximises the use of existing low voltage cables rather than build anew allowing for a more localised power distribution.
Posted: 20/01/2026
Up to £43m will be allocated to green aviation projects by the Government, with the production of low-carbon fuels expected to add up to £5bn to the economy by 2050.
Posted: 20/01/2026
The Department for Transport has embarked on a new campaign to convince consumers of the benefits of switching to EVs.
Posted: 20/01/2026
The UK’s seventh Contract for Difference allocation round (CfD AR7) were announced on 14 January with a total of 8.4GW of capacity awarded, compared to 3.8GW in AR6.
Posted: 19/01/2026
Well not quite, but most new electricity demand in the year 2024 to 2025 was met by renewables, creating the first reduction in fossil fuel power generation in ten years.
Posted: 19/01/2026
Investment in clean fuels will need to quadruple by 2030 to meet global clean fuel ambitions, according to a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report.
Posted: 16/01/2026
Water Plus has gained a net-zero standard for science-based target and reduction pathway.
Posted: 16/01/2026
The average price of electricity traded on day-ahead markets last year was around £83 per MWh but could have been as high as £121 per MWh, were it not for British windfarms limiting the role of gas power plants in setting prices, according to new analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
Posted: 16/01/2026
eBay has released its inaugural climate transition plan, a roadmap detailing how the company will advance sustainable commerce, reduce emissions across its operations and value chain, and achieve its long-term climate commitments.
Posted: 15/01/2026
Under the 12-year agreement, Microsoft will purchase 2.85 million soil carbon removal credits from Indigo, ion one of the largest soil carbon deals to date.
Posted: 15/01/2026
The UK is among the world’s top three destinations for announced foreign direct investment (FDI) with around $85bn a year invested between January 2022 to September 2025.
Posted: 15/01/2026
So, after much debate the EU decided that gas wasn’t a fossil fuel, merely a ‘transition’ fuel under its EU Taxonomy, next up is nuclear weapons.
Posted: 14/01/2026
DESNZ has awarded a record 8.4GW worth of contracts to build offshore wind projects, including what might become be the world's largest offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland.
Posted: 14/01/2026
A partnership between UK Power Networks and Cory Group has connected Riverside 2, one of the UK’s largest energy-from-waste facilities, to the electricity network.
Posted: 13/01/2026
EDF is repurposing decommissioned wind turbine blades, avoiding them being put to landfill, and using them for a variety of uses including fence posts.
Posted: 13/01/2026
Ørsted has won the right to restart work on its joint Revolution wind project. It is one of several projects that has been halted on grounds of ‘national security’ and being contested by offshore wind developers.
Posted: 13/01/2026
A new analysis suggests that the gross costs of net-zero could exceed official predictions of £7.6tr.
Posted: 13/01/2026
The Government has recently committed to a target of 47GW of solar power by 2030, tripling the existing 15GW of installed capacity, meaning that there will need to be a significant increase in the number, size and scale of solar developments seeking planning consent.
Posted: 121/01/2026
Kenyan tea farms are being powered by electricity from waste tea clippings.
Posted: 121/01/2026
In event of a breakdown, EVs are more likely to be fixed roadside than internal combustion engine cars, despite consumers being more concerned about roadside repairs.
Posted: 121/01/2026
UN climate chief Simon Stiell has said that the US withdrawal from UNFCCC is a “step back” from climate cooperation and will hurt US economy.
Posted: 09/01/2026
The UK Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group (ICSWG) has launched a framework aimed at supporting investors looking to evolve their climate strategies from portfolio decarbonisation towards real-world outcomes.
Posted: 09/01/2026
A new breakthrough promised efficient hydrogen production from solar energy without using any platinum.
Posted: 08/01/2026
The US has withdrawn from 66 groups including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), many of which are working to combat climate change.
Posted: 08/01/2026
Etlas, a new 50:50 joint venture from BP and Corteva will produce oil from crops for use in the production of biofuels like sustainable (or synthetic) aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD).
Posted: 07/01/2026
Commercial property consultancy Vail Williams has produced its Climate Risk Assessment, finding that 74 per cent of UK businesses have yet to assess how climate change might affect their operations.
Posted: 07/01/2026
Plans to create a £1bn carbon removal company in the South of Scotland have been backed by the region’s economic and community development agency.
Posted: 07/01/2026
The Seagreen wind farm, Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm, had to waste three quarters of its electricity produced last year and switch off its turbines due to a lack of grid capacity to use the energy.
Posted: 07/01/2026
As any biker knows, Kawasaki’s traditional colour is green, so it is apt that Kawasaki Heavy Industries are to build the world’s largest liquefied hydrogen carrier with a capacity of 40,000 cubic metres.
Posted: 07/01/2026
The UK new car market grew for the third year in a row in 2025, breaching the two million mark for the first time since the pandemic, with 2,020,520 new car registrations, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Posted: 06/01/2026
Discounts of up to £120,000 on new electric trucks will be available, with an additional £18m of funding announced to increase the Plug-in Truck Grant until March 2026.
Posted: 06/01/2026
The Government hopes its clean energy initiative will create 400,000 jobs by 2030, raising total energy sector employment to 860,000. This plays a part in its transition to a low carbon economy. The Office for Clean Energy Jobs (OCEJ) was established within the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to drive this initiative.
Posted: 06/01/2026
The fashion industry remains one of the most water-intensive sectors, with a single pair of jeans requiring around 9,000 litres of water across cotton cultivation, dyeing and finishing.
Posted: 06/01/2026
Revolution Wind, the 50/50 joint venture between Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted, has filed a supplemental complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the lease suspension order issued on 22 December 2025 by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), to be followed by a motion for a preliminary injunction.
Posted: 05/01/2026
From 1 January 2026 the world's first carbon border tax, the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), entered into effect.
Posted: 05/01/2026
Environmental policies may crowd out pre-existing green values, leading to a weaking of the messages.
Posted: 02/01/2026
Octopus Energy Group is to spin out its Kraken technology at valuation of $8.65bn, with a funding round led by D1 Capital Partners, alongside other new investors such as Fidelity International, Durable Capital Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board.
Posted: 02/01/2026
More incoherence in green policies as more barriers erected to electrification of transport.
Posted: 02/01/2026
You could take it either way, in fact any of three ways: climate change is now so embedded as an idea with re public that the media no longer highlight it, that net-zero has become so ‘politicised’, or you can wear a tinfoil hat.
Posted: 23/12/2025
2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years.
Posted: 23/12/2025
A new analysis from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) finds that UK car industry is on course to hit Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) Mandate’s 28 per cent target for 2025.
Posted: 22/12/2025
Could 2025 could be the greenest Christmas ever? NESO thinks so.
Posted: 22/12/2025
Kimberly-Clark Professional has launched its ReNew programme, offering an end-to-end waste recovery and recycling services to help businesses advance and communicate their ESG, zero waste, and carbon reduction achievements.
Posted: 19/12/2025
The Met Office outlook for the global average temperature in 2026 suggests an extension of the run of years with a value above 1.4C, compared to pre-industrial levels.
Posted: 18/12/2025
Figures from NESO show that 18,314GWh of solar generation in the UK during 2025.
Posted: 18/12/2025
Survivors of Super Typhoon Rai (known as Typhoon Odette) have issued proceedings in the UK against Shell. (Picture credit © Fossil Free London Angela Christofilou.)
Posted: 17/12/2025
An IEA market report sees global coal demand to slowly decline through the end of this decade as competition intensifies with other power sources, such as renewables, natural gas and nuclear.
Posted: 17/12/2025
The EU is looking to delay its ban on combustion engined cars by 2035.
Posted: 16/12/2025
Nissan has invested £450m to build the next generation Leaf EV in Sunderland.
Posted: 16/12/2025
Half of global car buyers plan to choose internal combustion engines, a 13-point jump as electric vehicle demand softens.
Posted: 15/12/2025
New analysis from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) shows that an expanding share of the world economy is cutting emissions while continuing to grow, meaning decoupling is beginning to occur at scale.
Posted: 15/12/2025
MYGroup, the waste management and recycling company, is partnering the British Beauty Council and its Sustainable Beauty Coalition for the 2026 Great British Beauty Clean Up, offering beauty businesses afully managed take back solution for hard-to-recycle empties.
Posted: 15/12/2025
Solar thermal manufacturer Naked Energy has launched a design service for planning, modelling and delivering integrated solar thermal technology.
Posted: 15/12/2025
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds that a whole-of-society and whole-of-government approach to transform the systems of economy and finance, materials and waste, energy, food and the environment would deliver global macroeconomic benefits that could reach US$20tr per year by 2070 and continue growing.
Posted: 11/12/2025
Great British Energy (GBE) has launched a £1bn Energy Engineered in the UK (EEUK) programme to mobilise public and private investment and unlock critical supply chains.
Posted: 11/12/2025
NESO analysis shows that energy costs could drop from about 10 per cent of GDP in 2025 to around 5-6 per cent by 2050. This is despite higher energy demand due to population growth, increased GDP, and more energy-intensive sectors like data centres.
Posted: 11/12/2025
Forestry England and DPD are extending their partnership to restore and protect some of the nation’s forests. Since 2020, the support of DPD’s Eco Fund has helped restore Wareham Forest in Dorset following devastating wildfires, planted more than 12,000 trees across four woodlands, and created new spaces for local communities.
Posted: 11/12/2025
After years of expansion, the EU solar boom of the 2020s might be over. With a 0.7 per cent contraction from 65.6GW installed in 2024, to 65.1GW installed in 2025, this year is the first since 2016 that solar capacity has declined.
Posted: 11/12/2025
Negotiations in the European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on an amendment to the EU Climate Law, setting a new, intermediate and binding 2040 EU climate target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent compared to 1990 levels.
Posted: 10/12/2025
Tesco has announced two new nature partnerships as it revealed the progress it’s made during the first year of its Nature Programme initiative.
Posted: 10/12/2025
ExxonMobil has announced that it will be cutting low-carbon spending by a third.
Posted: 10/12/2025
Ofgem has approved updated delivery dates and early investment for three connectivity ‘superhighways’.
Posted: 10/12/2025
WindEurope’s latest study, in cooperation with Hitachi Energy, shows that even when accounting for the grids, storage and back-up, a system running on a high share of renewables is significantly cheaper.
Posted: 10/12/2025
2025 is currently tied with 2023 to be the second-warmest year on record, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Posted: 09/12/2025
A provisional agreement has been reached to simplify sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements in an attempt to boost EU competitiveness.
Posted: 09/12/2025
NESO has confirmed a new pipeline of deliverable, shovel-ready energy projects that will be prioritised for connection to the electricity networks, unlocking a potential £40bn in clean investment annually.
Posted: 09/12/2025
On 5 December at 5:30pm, wind generated 24GW of electricity, beating the record of 23GW set less than a month ago on 11 November.
Posted: 09/12/2025
Paul McCartney has asked the EU to abandon is labelling plans that would effectively ban Linda McCartney’s vegetarian suages and other products.
Posted: 08/12/2025
Analysis on 25th anniversary of commissioning of UK’s first offshore wind farm finds the technology is now main source of electricity from North Sea, overtaking gas and generating around 10 per cent more power.
Posted: 08/12/2025
Onnu, in partnership with ReGenEarth, is pioneering a fully circular integrated anaerobic digestion (AD) and pyrolysis project.
Posted: 08/12/2025
The UK seems to be ‘smarter’ than Germany when it comes to EV charging.
Posted: 05/12/2025
The University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), in collaboration with ClimateWise, has released new research which outlines how insurers and governments are missing key aspects of risk and urgently need to take a more systemic approach.
Posted: 05/12/2025
GB Energy (GBE) has published its strategic plan outlines the organisation’s priorities for the next five years, including delivering 15GW of clean energy generation and storage, £15bn of mobilised private finance over time, 10,000 jobs, and income-generating portfolio, with income reinvested into more capacity.
Posted: 04/12/2025
The Pew Charitable Trusts have conducted a comprehensive analysis of plastic pollution in Earth’s waters, land and air, updating and expanding the earlier Breaking the Plastic Wave (BPW1) report.
Posted: 04/12/2025
Energy network companies have been allowed to increase funding to upgrade power and gas grids, despite the need to raise bills, under the RIIO-3 Final Determinations.
Posted: 04/12/2025
The eighth annual sustainable investment (SI) asset owner survey from FTSE Russell shows a growing concern over the risks associated with climate change.
Posted: 04/12/2025
The FCA has published proposals for ESG ratings in an attempt o make them more transparent and comparable.
Posted: 03/12/2025
The global green economy has surpassed $5tr in value and is projected to exceed $7tr annually by 2030.
Posted: 03/12/2025
The Sustainable Markets Initiative has hosted a high level gathering and attended a report back session with His Majesty The King, sharing their plans for action and the commitments they had made.
Posted: 03/12/2025
RWE is to build its largest UK storage project. The Pembroke Battery Storage facility will be a £200m development and form a major part of the Pembroke Net Zero Centre decarbonisation hub in South Wales.
Posted: 03/12/2025
BP has withdrawn its application for major hydrogen plant in Teesside.
Posted: 02/12/2025
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has announced that 2025 Antarctic ozone hole came to an end on 1 December. The 2025 ozone hole was relatively small for the second consecutive year compared to the large and long-lasting ozone holes from 2020-2023, and had higher ozone concentrations, giving hope for recovery.
Posted: 02/12/2025
Triodos Bank has embarked on its Climate and Nature Strategy, including concrete targets to rapidly reduce emissions, accelerate the energy transition and scale-up high-integrity nature-based solutions.
Posted: 02/12/2025
Despite the new 3p per mile tax on EVs, an analysis shows that EVs can still save their owners around £1,450 a year on average.
Posted: 01/12/2025
The UK’s largest floating solar energy project at the Port of Barrow has received approval from Westmorland & Furness Council.
Posted: 28/11/2025
In bringing in a mileage-based charge for electric and plug-in hybrid car drivers from 2028, the Government will require all types of electric car drivers to be subject to Tan annual check, either via existing MOT tests, or for new cars through an annual check procedure which is expected to be carried out at MOT stations.
Posted: 28/11/2025
The EC has delayed its environmental deregulation package, which may have loosened restrictions on emissions and environmental protection.
Posted: 28/11/2025
A World Economic Forum (WEF) report has considered the lessons of electrification across the globe.
Posted: 28/11/2025
A survey has exposed growing fears of UK offshore energy supply chain relocating overseas due to project delays.
Posted: 27/11/2025
Danone has officially achieved B Corp certification, becoming the largest entity to achieve the certification and hosting employees that represent around 9 per cent of the global B Corp movement workforce.
Posted: 27/11/2025
Toyota is rolling out an EV charging ecosystem in several European markets, including the UK. The initiative is designed to offer Toyota and Lexus plug-in hybrid and EV drivers a seamless, charging experience with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration to support wider grid sustainability and carbon neutrality goals.
Posted: 27/11/2025
Veolia has announced a district heating project in Poznań that supplies heat to 60 per cent of Poznań's 560,000 residents.
Posted: 26/11/2025
Frontier, founded by companies including Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta and McKinsey will pay Reverion $41m to remove 96,000 tons of carnon between 2027 and 2030.
Posted: 26/11/2025
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
Posted: 26/11/2025
Ocean Winds, the joint venture between EDPR and Engie, is set to be awarded the rights for a third floating offshore wind site in the Celtic Sea by The Crown Estate.
Posted: 20/11/2025
The vertical shaft sinking machine (VSM) has started its work at the National Grid’s Tilbury site.
Posted: 25/11/2025
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has released its new business plan for the two-year period from 2026 to 2028.
Posted: 25/11/2025
The Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce has published a final report calling for a radical reset of the nuclear regulatory system.
Posted: 24/11/2025
In end it was a mix of disappointment and the will to keep going. Guess it always was going to be that. All 194 countries in the climate negotiations stood by the Paris Agreement despite the US withdrawing. Which was good, but the final decision, so called a “global mutirão” after an Indigenous Brazilian word for ‘collective efforts’ failed to directly mention fossil fuels.
Posted: 24/11/2025
As the COP30 talks head to their final hours fire disrupted negotiations, with delegates evacuated as fire and smoke spread through the summit.
Posted: 21/11/2025
As global temperature rises hit 1.3C above pre-industrial levels, the UK is waking up to a potential health crisis.
Posted: 21/11/2025
Ofgem has announced changes to the maximum amount energy suppliers can charge people on default tariffs for each unit of energy and the daily standing charge.
Posted: 21/11/2025
The National Energy System Operator (Neso) has said new wind record has been set, with 23GW produced on 11 November, beating the previous high for wind power generation of 22GW set on 18 December last year.
Posted: 20/11/2025
Urenco, a supplier for the civil nuclear industry, has published an independent report during COP30 that predicts that the small modular reactor (SMR) market could make up the majority of industrial energy demand by 2050 in North America and Europe.
Posted: 20/11/2025
Hopes of an early COP30 climate deal eluded President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but there remains a degree of optimism on the progress that has been made so far.
Posted: 20/11/2025
The Energy Crisis Commission (ECC) has called on the Government to address high electricity prices and poor insulation.
Posted: 19/11/2025
Midland Heart’s Project 80, a programme to build and monitor homes that meet the upcoming Future Homes Standard, has produced results that contradict the idea that heat pumps will increase the load on the Grid.
Posted: 19/11/2025
A bi-directional EV charging system has been used to power a hotel in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight in a trial that could create a significant boost to sustainability in tourism.
Posted: 18/11/2025
A transition across the world to a green economy could create 12 million new jobs but cost 2.4 million.
Posted: 18/11/2025
DESNZ has announced that the Boiler Upgrade Scheme has been expanded to include air-to-air heat pumps and heat batteries.
Posted: 18/11/2025
As week two starts in Belém, week one ended with talks on finance, one of, if not the greatest hurdle to progress: in part because no one can agree what is owed to whom, or why.
Posted: 17/11/2025
Reports that restricting heat-pump subsidies in the upcoming Budget have been attacked by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
Posted: 17/11/2025
Vattenfall has signed an agreement to divest its Independent Distribution Network Operator (IDNO) business in the UK, Vattenfall Networks, to Eclipse Power Networks, owned by the Octopus Sky Fund.
Posted: 17/11/2025
Octopus EV has secured £2bn of funding to raise its own EV leasing fleet from 40,000 to more than 75,000.
Posted: 14/11/2025
M&S has become the first UK brand to work with Swedish sustain-tech company Circulose, using the material made of textile waste for selected products, helping to reduce reliance on virgin fibres and accelerate the shift to circular design at scale.
Posted: 14/11/2025
The number of MCS certified solar panel installations in 2025 has now surpassed 203,125 and brings the total to 1.85 million certified solar panel installations to date.
Posted: 13/11/2025
SSE has announced a £33bn five-year investment programme for infrastructure.
Posted: 13/11/2025
Wylfa on the coast of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) in North Wales selected as site for the UK’s first small modular reactor nuclear power station, hosting three Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).
Posted: 13/11/2025
The IEA’s new World Energy Outlook outlines how energy is becoming a major source of geopolitical tensions and the need for governments to pursue greater diversification of supplies.
Posted: 12/11/2025
The COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil have been stormed by protesters who appeared to be an indigenous group and supporters demanding access.
Posted: 12/11/2025
The 7th GSIA Global Sustainable Investment Review: From a Niche Practice to a Systemic Consideration finds that despite headwinds, sustainable and responsible investment has moved from to a ‘systemic consideration’.
Posted: 11/11/2025
EV uptake has soared by 44.4 per cent to take a record 4 per cent market share with almost 100,000 buyers.
Posted: 11/11/2025
Cleantech startup Kuppa has harnessed AI-driven technology, satellite data, smart meter data, and public databases to create bespoke virtual home energy designs instantly, speeding up the process of making homes more energy efficient.
Posted: 11/11/2025
COP30 opened with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva making the point that the location of the summit was an overt” a political and symbolic decision,” that would show that the Amazon is an essential part of the climate solution.
Posted: 11/11/2025
EV group Electric Vehicles UK (EVUK) has hit back at the Government’s “lack of forethought”, saying that the proposed pay-per-mile scheme is a risk to demand.
Posted: 07/11/2025
Ahead of COP30 it is worth noting that many great things have been achieved in reducing the impacts of manmade climate change.
Posted: 07/11/2025
A new analysis from Ember finds that the world is on track to add record levels of renewable energy again in 2025, meaning only a modest rise in annual additions is needed to triple global renewables by 2030.
Posted: 06/11/2025
Electric vehicles face a new pay-per-mile levy to replace the falling fuel duty revenue.
Posted: 06/11/2025
Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm once fully operational, will boost the UK economy by £6.1bn during its lifetime and support thousands of UK jobs over the next three decades.
Posted: 06/11/2025
EVs captured 26 per cent of all new car registrations in October, according to new data from New AutoMotive.
Posted: 05/11/2025
The EU NDC has limped in, with a headline target of 90 per cent emissions reduction by 2040, but at the cost of get out clauses on flexibility, energy prices and national circumstances.
Posted: 05/11/2025
The Government will introduce primary school lessons on global warming under a new shake-up of the national curriculum.
Posted: 05/11/2025
As climate impacts intensify globally, the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! finds that nations must deliver dramatically stronger ambition and action in the next round of NDCs or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C goal will be gone within a few years.
Posted: 05/11/2025
The Danish renewable titan has reported a quarterly net loss as US political headwinds continue to batter the wind form operator.
Posted: 05/11/2025
A new report from the Ellen MacArthur, the 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business, has won the backing of companies including Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, L’Oréal, Nestlé, SC Johnson, PepsiCo and Unilever who are reaffirming their support to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Global Commitment 2030.
Posted: 04/11/2025
Ørsted has entered into an agreement with Apollo-managed funds for a 50 per cent equity ownership share in the 2.9GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK.
Posted: 04/11/2025
Amazon’s UK transportation network has been boosted with the largest order to date of electric heavy-goods vehicles (eHGVs) anywhere, which are now starting to roll out onto UK roads.
Posted: 04/11/2025
Last week's DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker revealed 79 per cent of the public are concerned about climate change, yet more than half don't know what climate information to believe.
Posted: 04/11/2025
In trials across 30 homes in southern England, researchers tested reducing heat pump use during peak grid demand hours, leading to a 90 per cent drop in electricity demand, while comfort remained stable.
Posted: 03/11/2025
Grosvenor’s UK property business, which includes the London Estate of Mayfair and Belgravia, has achieved a 38 per cent reduction in carbon emissions across scopes 1, 2 and 3 in under six years.
Posted: 31/10/2025
Global electricity needs are expected to surge by 30 per cent over the next ten years as EVs, heat pumps and data centres push demand up.
Posted: 31/10/2025
The South Korea-based Green Climate Fund has channelled $3.26bn to developing countries in 2025, setting a new record.
Posted: 31/10/2025
The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) has been beset with resignations, and in turn has undertaken a review which mean that signatories commit to support investing aligned with the global goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as outlined in the Commitment Statement, but, critically, ditches the goal of being net-zero by 2050, or any defined date.
Posted: 30/10/2025
Waitrose has announced new partnerships with Soil Association Exchange and Regenified to accelerate its support for British farmers to produce food in ways that restore and protect the environment.
Posted: 30/10/2025
The Government has set out its Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan, in line with the 2008 Climate Change Act.
Posted: 30/10/2025
BESS developer Apatura has signed an agreement with Drax Group, who will initially acquire three battery energy storage system projects located in Scotland and Northern England.
Posted: 30/10/2025
New and “updated modelling” published ahead of AR7 have revised down the predicted efficiency of wind turbines by more than a quarter, leaving DESNZ plans, and developer funding, looking inadequate.
Posted: 29/10/2025
Bill Gates is a bit like Norway. Norway has been a poster child for environmental concerns whilst building its climate credentials on exporting a lot of oil and carbon offshore. Mr Gates has a record as a champion of carbon reduction, built of the massive carbon contribution of computing.
Posted: 29/10/2025
Sixty-four countries have submitted new nationally determined contributions (NDCs), falling short of the UN demands with time running out before next month's COP30 summit.
Posted: 28/10/2025
Ten years ago, the world was heading for around 4C of heating by 2100; today, that projection is closer to 2.6C.
Posted: 28/10/2025
The Government has now announced a £1.08bn initial budget to support offshore wind, with the aim of encouraging investment.
Posted: 28/10/2025
EU energy policy is set to stay high on the political agenda next year, according to the Commission Work programme for 2026.
Posted: 24/10/2025
Investment in renewable energy should be counted under defence expenditure, says a group of retired senior military personnel.
Posted: 23/10/2025
Newquay AFC has won funding, allowing the installation of solar panels and battery storage.
Posted: 23/10/2025
The UK’s clean energy revolution is set to create 400,000 new jobs by 2030, with demand surging for skilled workers including plumbers, electricians and welders.
Posted: 22/10/2025
Amazon, Energy Northwest and X-energy have announced plans for a next-generation nuclear campus, designed to supply carbon-free power for cloud computing and AI.
Posted: 21/10/2025
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a record in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Posted: 16/10/2025
Lloyds Bank is offering a heat pump when you take out a new mortgage.
Posted: 16/10/2025
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has written a letter addressed to the Government warning that the UK should prepare for climate change above the Paris Agreement, saying planning should be, at a minimum, for the weather extremes that will be experienced if global warming levels reach 2C above preindustrial levels by 2050.
Posted: 15/10/2025
The NWF has published its inaugural Impact Report, with over half of its portfolio representing clean energy (£3.9bn), creating 6.3GW of additional capacity and a third of the portfolio nascent and emerging markets, from battery storage to semiconductors and hydrogen aviation.
Posted: 15/10/2025
The Montel European Electricity Market Outlook has predicted that Q4 2025 will be characterised by delays in offshore wind projects, increased occurrence of Dunkelflaute periods, gas storage supplies being stressed in case of harsh weather and/or further geopolitical events.
Posted: 15/10/2025
Following the recent report from the National Audit Office on insulation schemes, Consumer Scotland has renewed calls for national action across the UK governments, regulators, local authorities and industry to protect consumers in the transition to greener home heating.
Posted: 15/10/2025
The world’s busiest chain ferry service has embarked on a journey to achieve zero emissions.
Posted: 15/10/2025
Tillbridge Solar farm near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire has been approved by DESNZ, despite opposition by Lincolnshire County Council and by the district councils.
Posted: 14/10/2025
A new report from the UN Global Compact Network UK offers an assessment of how UK business sectors are performing on sustainability.
Posted: 14/10/2025
Apple is expanding renewable energy projects across Europe with new large-scale solar and wind farms now in development in Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Romania.
Posted: 14/10/2025
Around 98 per cent of homes with external wall insulation installed under the Government’s ECO scheme require work to correct major issues that will cause problems such as damp and mould.
Posted: 14/10/2025
The new Planning and Infrastructure Bill contains measures aimed at reducing delays and achieve faster development.
Posted: 14/10/2025
The EU’s rollback of its Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) was intended to allow SMEs to be more competitive, but it might have an opposite effect.
Posted: 14/10/2025
Duracell will start creating a network of ultra-fast EV charging stations across the UK.
Posted: 13/10/2025
The ‘dieselgate’ lawsuit against five major carmakers is about to begin.
Posted: 13/10/2025
Greenpeace UK has warned the Crown Estate that it is considering taking legal action unless the public body stops “monopoly profiteering” at the expense of bill payers and offshore wind developers.
Posted: 13/10/2025
TotalEnergies and Siemens are seeking to abolish the EU corporate sustainability laws to shore up their economic competitiveness in an increasingly difficult world, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
Posted: 10/10/2025
The Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders has published open letter ahead of COP30 underlining the commercial viability of the climate economy and the sharp contrast to the escalating costs of inaction.
Posted: 10/10/2025
Ørsted has had a rough time of it of late, political headwinds in the US, a rights issue and now it says it will be reducing its organisation by 2,000 employees towards the end of 2027.
Posted: 10/10/2025
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for work on metal-organic frameworks.
Posted: 09/10/2025
Biofuel might not the solution, it is responsible for 16 per cent more carbon emissions globally than the fossil fuels they would replace.
Posted: 09/10/2025
On Friday10 October a dedicated free one-day event will be held to encourage fleet transition to electric vehicles. With sessions from the AA, Electric Vehicles UK, EV Café, Gridserve, National Grid, Octopus EV, Omoda Jaecoo and Zapmap.
Posted: 08/10/2025
UKSIF has launched A Consumer Guide to Sustainable Investment Funds, a simple explanation produced with Rathbones Group to help consumers choose and understand sustainable investment as part of its annual Good Money Week.
Posted: 08/10/2025
KPMG’s eleventh CEO Outlook shows that leaders are positive, if cautious, about the future, and climate targets are within that optimistic arena.
Posted: 08/10/2025
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and traders (SMMT) data has again charted a significant growth in EV sales last month due to manufacturer investments, model choice and the new Electric Car Grant, seeing 72,779 new battery electric vehicles delivered.
Posted: 07/10/2025
Renewable energy has become the main source of electricity generation in the first half of this year.
Posted: 07/10/2025
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has quantified the savings to electricity costs that wind power is delivering by offering lower day-ahead wholesale prices, which could roughly equal the support that wind farms receive from bills.
Posted: 06/10/2025
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has set out is new timeline for grid connections, saying the reform process will prioritise the projects needed to deliver the Government’s Clean Power by 2030 target.
Posted: 06/10/2025
In the second quarter of 2025, 54.0 per cent of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, with solar taking the lead.
Posted: 03/10/2025
Beer maker BrewDog has a Scottish forest after failed plantings and current losses have made the company abandon this particular route to ‘negative carbon’.
Posted: 03/10/2025
Although significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, the overall state of the EU’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degradation, overexploitation and biodiversity loss.
Posted: 02/10/2025
Co-op will enter a seven-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with RWE to utilise energy from a North Wales wind farm.
Posted: 02/10/2025
The first four Zero Bills homes have been put on sale in Wales, with buyers guaranteed no energy bills for ten years.
Posted: 02/10/2025
Dedicated to recognising innovation, commitment and achievement in building a better future. All entrants and winners highlight the outstanding work taking place across the sector. So it was a crowded room filled with much anticipation as Maisie Adam introduced the finalists.
Posted: 02/10/2025
The Labour Party Conference has been in swing this week, if a little deflated one as it grapples with the lowest ever poll ratings for its leaders. Still, at least Ed Miliband was in zealous form.
Posted: 01/10/2025
The electric ‘price premium’ over traditionally fuelled cars has fallen to a record low, in the latest update on their initiative combatting misinformation surrounding electric cars.
Posted: 01/10/2025
In 2019 ClientEarth brought a complaint against BP for its Possibilities Everywhere: Keep Advancing advertising campaign. BP emphasised its renewable energy investments as if they were a far bigger part of its business model than in reality.
Posted: 01/10/2025
A major milestone has been reached for Tata Steel UK as it moves toward low-carbon steelmaking, with the ambition to produce net-zero steel by 2045 at the latest, and to have reduced 30 per cent of its CO2 emissions by 2030.
Posted: 30/09/2025
Vattenfall has selected Rolls-Royce SMR and GE Vernova for its nuclear programme.
Posted: 30/09/2025
Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm has signed a lease agreement for up to 100,000 square metres at the Port of Tyne, one of the UK’s deep-sea ports.
Posted: 30/09/2025
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said that retailers must urgently address the accelerating loss of nature and biodiversity or risk jeopardising supply chain resilience.
Posted: 30/09/2025
A decade since the Paris Agreement of COP21 a new analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has found global growth in carbon emissions compared to the previous decade has slowed fivefold to just 0.32 per cent a year.
Posted: 29/09/2025
Five NHS sites have been fitted with solar panels, along with three more schools, and eight more schools will follow in autumn as GB Energy expands its operations.
Posted: 26/05/2025
China, the biggest global polluter, pledged to cut emissions and set a defined target to do so.
Posted: 25/09/2025
An open letter from Club de Madrid, a forum of 130 democratic former presidents and prime Ministers, has urged governments to levy permanent ‘polluter profit taxes’ on high-emitting industries.
Posted: 25/09/2025
The UK’s first carbon capture-enabled cement plant at Padeswood, developed by Heidelberg Materials UK, and one of the world’s first full-scale carbon capture-enabled waste-to-energy facilities at Protos in Ellesmere Port, developed by Encyclis, have signed final contracts with Government to begin construction.
Posted: 25/09/2025
Four out of five of European citizens consider sustainability a priority, and it is already influencing their consumption habits.
Posted: 25/09/2025
Snowy Hydro and Akaysha Energy have announced a 15-year virtual toll agreement with Akaysha Energy for the 3.1GW Elaine Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Victoria.
Posted: 24/09/2025
For the second year in a row, Helsinki has been ranked first in the Global Destination Sustainability (GDS) Index.
Posted: 24/09/2025
Ørsted will continue work on its Revolution Wind project in the US after the Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction regarding the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s stop-work order.
Posted: 24/09/2025
Since its inception at COP26 in 2021, the Global Energy Alliance has awarded $503m in catalytic funding, helping ‘unlock’ $7.8bn in total investments and powering 137 projects in over 30 countries.
Posted: 23/09/2025
The blackout in Spain and Portugal earlier this year showed just how devastating a power failure can be.
Posted: 23/09/2025
Despite talk of a 'net zero recession', most governments and companies are persisting with, and expanding, their commitments to a clean future, and whilst several oil, gas and financial firms have weakened or abandoned targets, the broader trend is one of resilience.
Posted: 23/09/2025
All ten Mars Snacking factories in Europe are now powered by renewable energy.
Posted: 23/09/2025
dCarbonX is considering building an undersea gas storage facility to provide a backup energy supply for periods where renewables are not generating sufficient power (dunkelflaute).
Posted: 22/09/2025
The Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has now approved plans for a second runway at Gatwick Airport.
Posted: 22/09/2025
The impact of a three-year e-waste programme has been revealed, with its insight and knowledge ready to be shared for other stakeholders.
Posted: 22/09/2025
Climate-driven health risks could cost the global economy at least $1.5tr in lost productivity by 2050 in food and agriculture, built environment and health and healthcare, a World Economic Forum report suggests.
Posted: 19/09/2025
Members of the public are being consulted on plans for the Ferrybridge Next Generation Power Station that will potentially provide a hydrogen-capable power station.
Posted: 19/09/2025
A S&P Global report, using probabilistic analysis, estimates a 90 per cent likelihood that, by 2040, the average global temperature will exceed the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. And there is a 50 per cent likelihood of it exceeding 2.3 C.
Posted: 19/09/2025
PepsiCo, Unilever, and other major food and beverage companies have launched a new collaboration to scale regenerative agriculture.
Posted: 19/09/2025
So DESNZ provides a lot of news on Government policies, it is a source of information. Yes, that’s right, information. As opposed to political slogans. And here we are taking about everyone’s favourite unknown quantity Great British Energy.
Posted: 18/09/2025
The Australian government is ramping up its efforts on climate change, announcing a new 2035 emissions target and also releasing its Net Zero Plan outlining how these targets will be achieved.
Posted: 18/09/2025
Octopus Energy Group will spin-off of its Kraken arm to help accelerate the platform’s expansion across the globe.
Posted: 18/09/2025
The vast majority, 98 per cent, of companies have not disclosed plans to shift capital away from carbon-intensive assets or to align spending with their long-term decarbonisation goals.
Posted: 18/09/2025
A new report by data provider London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) shows that aggregate emissions for key investment benchmarks are still rising – even if they are becoming less carbon-intensive per dollar invested.
Posted: 18/09/2025
Three of Britain's’ energy networks; Cadent, SGN and UK Power Networks; have launched a ‘common ask template’ to speed up delivery of local net-zero projects.
Posted: 18/09/2025
Venture capital is obsessed with unicorns. Unicorns are indeed pretty, and reward all when they actually happen (not very often) but they might not really be able to create the conditions to address climate change.
Posted: 17/09/2025
The average rate at which oil and gas fields’ output declines over time has significantly accelerated globally, with potential environmental and energy security implications.
Posted: 17/09/2025
Charitable giving to nature and environmental charities is small and in danger of declining, further eroding progress to net-zero.
Posted: 17/09/2025
UK Power Networks, in partnership with SGN, NESO and Guidehouse, has launched a research project that could reveal how energy is really being used across the UK’s industrial sector in the era of green energy.
Posted: 17/09/2025
Google is opening of its data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, having selected Shell Energy Europe as its energy manager in the UK, in a new agreement where Shell will manage a power portfolio for Google that addresses the intermittency of clean energy generation through access to battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Posted: 16/09/2025
Shell Nederland Raffinaderij, a subsidiary of Shell, has decided not to restart construction of its planned biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park in Rotterdam, which began in 2022.
Posted: 16/09/2025
The Getting to Zero Coalition (GZC), which includes over 180 companies active in the global shipping, has called on International Maritime Organization member states to adopt the Net-Zero Framework, saying that a failure to do so would risk significant negative consequences for the shipping industry.
Posted: 16/09/2025
The EU is struggling to agree a set of nationally Defined Contribution targets ahead of COP30.
Posted: 16/09/2025
Centrica has successfully demonstrated the injection of hydrogen into a gas-fired peak power plant at Centrica’s Brigg Energy Park, North Lincolnshire.
Posted: 15/09/2025
The UK and US will build a new generation of nuclear power stations in a partnership that will help shore up the UK’s low carbon energy supply and reduce dependence on imports.
Posted: 15/09/2025
The number of EV charge points at supermarkets has increased by a third (34 per cent) in the last 18 months, according to new data analysed by Zapmap and the RAC.
Posted: 12/09/2025
In 2023, the Conservative government signed up to the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, generally referred to as the High Seas Treaty, at the first opportunity.
Posted: 12/09/2025
It was always going to happen. Someone, somewhere would link climate change and Gaza. Quite how the attack on Israel (and subsequent extreme retaliation) were about fossil fuels and solar panels may have escaped most, but here we are.
Posted: 12/09/2025
A new survey of global investors has found that almost seven in ten investors globally have said they believe the energy transition is ‘unstoppable’ despite recent policy shifts.
Posted: 11/09/2025
Fidra Energy secured up to £445m of new equity investment from EIG and the National Wealth Fund (NWF) as it reaches total funding of around £1bn for the UK’s largest Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project at its Thorpe Marsh site in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
Posted: 11/09/2025
Carbon dioxide emissions from plug-in hybrid (PHEV) cars are almost five times higher, on average, than official tests suggest, according to new data published by the EU.
Posted: 10/09/2025
A study of more than 7,000 people across England, Scotland, and Wales reveals that Britons across the political spectrum feel positive and proud about the country’s efforts to protect the environment and transition to clean energy.
Posted: 10/09/2025
Retired offshore oil platforms might have a second life as renewable energy hubs and helping the environment.
Posted: 10/09/2025
Hopes that melting polar regions could be helped by advanced geoengineering solutions such as stratospheric aerosol injections, may be fanciful, and indeed could do harm to net-zero, ecosystems and communities.
Posted: 09/09/2025
So far in 2025, Britain has wasted £870m switching off wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on because the energy cannot be efficiently distributed over the National Grid.
Posted: 09/09/2025
Zero-emissions London taxi firm Sherbet has secured £40m of investment which will help expend its zero-emissions fleet and allow the company to extend its own footprint globally.
Posted: 09/09/2025
Onyx Insight has announced the acquisition of UK startup Eleven-I, a specialist in advanced blade analytics and condition monitoring.
Posted: 09/09/2025
M&S is redoubling its commitment to sourcing 100 per cent British produce across key lines, sustainable farming and strengthening its partnership with 10,000 British farms.
Posted: 08/09/2025
Over 150 executives from Europe’s electric car sector have signed a letter urging the EU to keep its 2035 zero-emission target for cars and vans.
Posted: 08/09/2025
The company might have had trouble deciding on where to put the engine in the past (front? mid? roof? – no what about sticking it right out the back!) but when it comes to EV charging Porsche will soon be offering buried wireless inductive charging for electric cars.
Posted: 05/09/2025
The SMMT reports that end of Summer is usually a quieter period for the UK’s new car markets and coupled with the tough economic and consumer environment a two per cent decline in new car registrations is to be expected.
Posted: 05/09/2025
Ørsted and the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut have sued the Trump administration over its decision to block construction of the Revolution Wind project.
Posted: 05/09/2025
I4CE has published the European Climate Neutrality Observatory report (ECNO) on the EU transition, with good news on cleantech, and not so good on progress itself.
Posted: 05/09/2025
Lloyd’s of London has reset its net zero policies, making the targets longer and looser.
Posted: 05/09/2025
BlackRock has lost a mandate worth €14.5bn as the Dutch Pension Fund for Healthcare and Welfare (PFZW) cuts the number of companies it invests in from around 3,500 to just 800 as part of a sweeping overhaul of its equity portfolio, aimed at improving sustainability oversight and returns.
Posted: 04/09/2025
Overall capacity for storing carbon might be a tenth of that previously thought, according to a new study published by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and is not a ‘way out’ of climate change.
Posted: 04/09/2025
Banning ozone-destroying gases such as CFCs has helped the ozone layer to recover, but when combined with increased air pollution the impact of ozone could warm the planet 40 per cent more than originally thought.
Posted: 04/09/2025
Vattenfall has confirmed its investment for the construction of the Clashindarroch II onshore wind farm, near Huntly in Aberdeenshire.
Posted: 04/09/2025
Spain’s energy transition has been boosted by three new projects that will deliver 600MW of clean energy for over 10 per cent of Spanish homes.
Posted: 04/09/2025
RenewableUK Cymru and Net Zero Industry Wales have released a ‘Wales clean growth map’, highlighting a £9bn investment opportunity for the Welsh economy from renewable energy projects and low-carbon industries across the country.
Posted: 03/09/2025
The government of Brazil has made a formal request to become a full member of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Posted: 03/09/2025
Energy Minister Michael Shanks delivered a speech at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Offshore Europe Conference 2025 with a balancing act.
Posted: 03/09/2025
Climate change impact studies conducted by AXA Climate show that without any shift in practices from now until 2050, maize yields could drop by as much as 30 per cent in the most exposed regions, and vineyard yields by 45 per cent.
Posted: 02/09/2025
Octopus Energy has entered into a partnership with LG Electronics to supply heating and cooling systems across Europe.
Posted: 02/09/2025
The UK’s mean temperature from 1 June to 31 August stands at 16.10C, which is 1.51C above the long-term meteorological average. This surpasses the previous record of 15.76C, set in 2018, and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top five warmest summers in a series dating back to 1884.
Posted: 02/09/2025
Ørsted opened a $9.4bn rights issue to fund its Sunrise Wind project in the US after hitting severe headwinds and finding it difficult to secure financing or sell a stake in the project. Now Equinor has signalled its support the issue and to strengthen Ørsted’s balance sheet in response to the current challenges.
Posted: 01/09/2025
The UK has been actively developing geothermal energy from disused mines, although the project has received less attention than other renewable systems.
Posted: 01/09/2025
Solar panel imports into Africa rose by 60 per cent in the year to June 2025, according to a new analysis of China’s solar panel exports data from Ember.
Posted: 29/08/2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened an investigation into Drax Group.
Posted: 29/08/2025
US-based ChargePoint and Eaton have launched an ultrafast DC V2G charger and power infrastructure for public charging and fleets.
Posted: 29/08/2025
The University of Manchester will begin powering its campus with renewable electricity from a new solar farm, marking a key milestone in its goal of becoming zero carbon by 2038.
Posted: 28/08/2025
The slow rollout of the Government’s scheme continues with 28 models now eligible for the Electric Car Grant (ECG) scheme, an increase of six, including the first models to have a full grant.
Posted: 28/08/2025
The Mitsubishi Corporation has been developing offshore wind projects in three areas off the coast of Japan, but a review of its business plans has concluded that it will now not proceed with the developments.
Posted: 27/08/2025
In April, Royal Mail unveiled a solar-powered postbox design with solar panels, a barcode scanner, and a larger hatch to accommodate parcels.
Posted: 27/08/2025
The Green Finance Initiative (GFI) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have published a report calling on Government to support and participate in the co-development of nature-positive transition pathways (NPPs) with the private sector that incorporate nature and climate into economic and growth strategies.
Posted: 26/08/2025
The current job market in the UK is highly dynamic, with concerns about the future of the planet creating a surge in demand, according to research by careers provider LiveCareer.
Posted: 26/08/2025
Researchers led by UCL have developed durable new solar cells capable of efficiently harvesting energy from indoor light, meaning devices such as keyboards, remote controls, alarms and sensors could be battery free.
Posted: 26/08/2025
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