The ethical energy supplier Co-operative Energy has announced its intention to increase the price of its gas and electricity by 4.5%. It added that this represented...
Fifty-seven years to the day since Britain’s first nuclear power plant was officially opened by the Queen, the chancellor George Osborne has announced that the government...
A group of high-profile investors has called on George Osborne to address the lack of a 2030 decarbonisation target in the energy bill, which they say...
New research suggests that energy has overtaken transport as the biggest concern for businesses with regards to infrastructure. Historically, the UK has underinvested in its infrastructure. Research...
The liberal democrat party has come under fire from campaign groups after voting in favour of atomic energy, which it has long opposed. After hours of...
The government has promised to provide investors in UK energy infrastructure with further certainty, after publishing a draft set of plans to reform the electricity market....
Tidal power generators in the Pentland Firth could produce enough electricity to power half of Scotland every year, according to a new study. University of Oxford...
Energy giant E.ON was ordered to pay £3m on Tuesday after it was found to have sold energy-saving lightbulbs that, by law, it should have given...
Abundance Generation has launched the financing stage for its fourth renewable energy project. Investors are able to pledge as little as £5 to fund the installation...
Regular readers will already be familiar with 100% renewable electricity supplier, Good Energy. In the past year, the firm has gone from strength to strength. Its...
On the day that the British Geological Survey revealed that previous studies into UK shale gas reserves could have hugely underestimated the potential, the Economist magazine hosted...
The amount of shale gas located in Lancashire and Yorkshire is actually far greater than initial estimates suggested, but it’s unclear how much can actually be...
RWE Npower director Nina Skorupska was recently unveiled as the Renewable Energy Association’s (REA) new chief executive. At the end of July, she will take over...
One of the criticisms of solar power and other renewable energies are their apparent status as ‘subsidy junkies’; another is their efficiency. In a recent interview,...
After completing an energy technology degree in the early-90s, Howard Johns became an environmental activist, arranging protests against new roads and open cast mining. But in...