We’re into August now, so as usual, we look back at the month of July to examine the biggest headlines that emerged. Before July 2012, the...
Is the green deal in trouble? Many questions remain about how it could help those in fuel poverty, and recent amendments to the deal are not...
The government’s fraud and corruption investigation arm will be looking into the supposed manipulation of the Libor rate among UK banks. The Serious Fraud Office, the...
Former Barclays chief Bob Diamond faced some tough questions about the interest rate-fixing scandal from the Treasury committee today in parliament. Diamond resigned from his post as...
Conservative councillors in Wiltshire have essentially canned the county’s hopes for wind power development in the near future, after voting in favour of restrictions to limit...
A report by oil giant BP has revealed how coal still takes up a 30% slice of the global energy market – its highest contribution in...
The wind power sector has received its latest attack, after Lincolnshire county council appealed for an absolute halt to the “unrestrained invasion” of turbines in the...
The latest incoherent rant to come from Telegraph blogger James Delingpole was as callous as it was ignorant: “I would rather a child of mine went...
The Government has published a draft version of the energy bill, which it hopes will revitalise the market. But questions remain about the affordability of energy...
Anti-smoking campaigners have rejected Hackney council’s defence of £10.5m pension fund investments in tobacco stocks. Last year, the council declared that its pension funds had a...
Francois Hollande’s presidential election will shed new light on France’s nuclear debate as the nation prepares for a likely energy source swing away from nuclear and...
Energy secretary Ed Davey has said that the Government may “tweak” the start date of the new, lower feed-in tariff (FiT) rate for solar panel owners,...
Barclays and Aviva are two high-profile companies that have recently made the headlines because of shareholder revolts over excessive executive pay. Especially at a time of recession,...
According to reports from the BBC yesterday, the Government was to put the Energy Bill on hold to make room for a House of Lords reform and to...
Some 650 megawatts (MW) of new solar capacity was installed in Germany in January and February – almost double the amount during the same period in...