The financial watchdog has announced it is to investigate whether the subsidy scheme for the UK’s new nuclear plant will represent value for money, shortly after...
Four offshore wind farms with the capacity to power 1.4 million homes have been given development consent by the Scottish government, in a project expected to...
Renewables investment company Low Carbon has announced that a deal to build a new solar park at Berwick in East Sussex has been closed. Blue &...
IBM, together with Airlight Energy, has launched a new 10-meter-high ‘sunflower’ device, able to move in order to catch as much sunlight as possible, which can...
MPs on the energy select committee have warned that the government’s capacity market, which aims to ensure energy demand is met at peak times, could increase...
EDF has confirmed that four of its UK nuclear reactors that were shut off last month for safety reasons will not fully resume operations until the...
The roll-out of smart meters will empower customers and boost competition in the much-criticised energy market, writes Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Smart Energy GB. Imagine...
National Grid, the UK’s gas and electricity supplier and distributor, has called on energy firms to declare the amount of power reserves they can provide to...
In the future biobatteries could be used to generate energy from sweat. Researchers have reported that they have designed a sensor in the form of a...
Five former regulators are urging investigators to analyse energy watchdog Ofgem’s role in reducing the energy industry’s competition through badly designed regulations implemented in 2008. The...
Drax group has lost its legal battle with the government over one of its projects’ eligibility for subsidy scheme Contract for Difference (CfD), resulting in the...
Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has put forward new proposals that would see anyone guilty of manipulating energy prices facing up to two years...
According to the latest statistics published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, renewable energy contributed 15% towards the national grid last year, a rise...
The world will face a global water shortage by 2040, unless wind and solar energy is used to replace conventional methods of energy generation, a new...
Tech giant Google has launched a $1 million (£590,000) contest, inviting engineers to design a compact device that can convert renewable energy into electricity. In cooperation with...