Sarah Butler-Sloss answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. An internationally recognised leader in the field of renewable energy for the past two decades, she...
Energy giant E.ON has been handed a £12m fine by the industry watchdog Ofgem, after an investigation into the mis-selling of products to consumers. The fine...
The UK faces a desperate shortage of natural resources such as oil and coal, according to a troubling new report that underlines the need for significant...
Renewable energy firm Ecotricity has bought a small wind firm out of administration, while blaming government policies for leaving “investors spooked”. Small wind firm Evance has...
The families of victims in the Turkish coal mine disaster have criticised the country’s government, as hopes of finding survivors slip away and the death toll...
An urgent wake-up call has gone out to the commercial property sector with new data on a £29 billion green refurbishment bill. We have written about...
More than 200 coal miners have died at a site in Soma, West Turkey, with hundreds of people still trapped underground, following the explosion of a...
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced the financing of a new renewable energy plant in London that will create energy and agricultural compost and will...
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed plans to stop subsidies through the renewables obligation (RO) scheme for large-scale solar farms. The plans...
Around 6.5 million people were employed by the renewable energy industry worldwide at the end of 2013, according to figures from the International Renewable Energy Agency...
Customers of the energy supplier Npower made more complaints than those of any other large energy company last year, according to new findings from Citizens Advice....
Electricity may usurp oil as the lifeblood of the global economy in the 21st century, but a massive decarbonisation effort is urgently required if the most...
Glyndebourne – the UK’s leading opera festival – celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. While timeless works by Tchaikovsky and Mozart continue to thrill the crowds,...
UK fracking firm IGas has agreed to take over its Australian rival Dart Energy in a £117m deal that will create Britain’s largest shale gas explorer. Announced...
Prominent financier and investor Guy Hands has argued that the crisis in Ukraine demonstrates the importance of the energy security provided by domestic renewable energy projects....