European commissioners remain split on how far the European Union’s renewable energy goals for 2030 should go. Some sources have speculated that a binding renewables agreement...
Lincolnshire is set to receive £30m investment from French-based oil and gas firm Total SA to investigate the county’s shale gas potential. Hydraulic fracking, or fracking, is...
The government has come under fire over claims that it is “bribing” local authorities across the UK, by allowing them to keep 100% of business rates...
French fossil fuel giant Total is to become the first major oil company to invest in the UK’s shale gas industry, it announced on Monday. The...
A new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that the energy mix of member countries has “barely changed” since the...
Scientists and engineers from Harvard University have developed a new type of battery that they say could revolutionise the way electricity is stored on the grid,...
Global venture capital investment in clean technology (cleantech) totalled $6.8 billion (£4.1 billion) in 2013, with energy efficiency, transportation and solar the most profitable sectors, according...
In some areas of the US, where below-freezing temperatures are driving up energy demand, the lights have been kept on thanks largely to the contribution of...
Big six energy firm Npower has announced price cuts of 2.6%, amid growing pressure from consumer groups to pass on savings to customers after the government’s...
ABP, a Dutch pension fund, has sold its €18m (£14.9m) stake in troubled Japanese utility company Tepco, which was responsible for a series of incidents following...
Ministers from some of the EU’s largest economies have called on the European commission to set an ambitious 2030 target for renewable energy use. The UK,...
SSE has become the fifth of the big six energy suppliers to announce a price cut, after saying it will take £50 off its customers’ bills...
One particular clean energy fund delivered returns unsurpassed by not just the sustainable investment space last year, but the entire UK fund world. In the 12...
Hydraulic fracturing, often known as fracking, is a process by which natural gases are extracted from shale rocks beneath the Earth’s surface. The process includes blasting...
Andrew Simmonds, chief executive of the Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB), tells Blue & Green Tomorrow how the organisation’s 1,400 individual and organisational members are...