The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has criticised a publication by the Civitas thinktank, in which clean energy subsidies are blamed for “discouraging” innovation...
Lack of EU policies on delivering secure, affordable and low-carbon energy has hindered investment into renewables projects, according to a new report by a House of...
Inspired by plants, Scottish scientists have harnessed the principles of photosynthesis to generate clean energy from hydrogen. The breakthrough, they say, offers a potential solution to the...
Global clean energy investment in the first three months of 2013 dropped to a four-year low, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). BNEF’s...
Climate Week 2013 came to an end on Sunday, with over 3,000 events having taken place across the country during the seven days. Daisy Moore of...
Scandinavia has managed to reduce its carbon emissions and achieve considerable economic growth. As a result, countries like Denmark and Sweden have become some of the...
Some of the UK’s most innovative companies have been shortlisted for prizes at the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013, which take place on March 21...
Over 35 organisations, from energy companies to membership groups, have signed a joint statement to MPs, calling for a decarbonisation target to be added to the...
The UK has missed renewable energy opportunities by focusing too heavily on new nuclear, according to campaigners reacting to Centrica’s decision to withdraw from the UK’s...
The Green Investment Bank’s (GIB) ability to borrow is set to be put back, after George Osborne confirmed that austerity measures will continue for at least...
The chancellor George Obsorne delivered his fifth set piece financial statement that we’ve covered. He opened with the bold statement that the economy is healing. While...
Labour leader Ed Miliband has attacked the coalition’s green agenda in a speech at Whitelee Wind Farm in Scotland, saying that David Cameron’s government is “not...
John Hayes delivered a keynote speech at a renewables event in Lincolnshire yesterday, but failed to reassure the industry that the government is fully behind further...
Nine out of 10 people in the US want to see a greater emphasis on renewable energy in their country’s future energy mix, according to a...
Tomorrow sees the Financial Times (FT) Global Energy Leaders Summit 2012, a two-day event that aims to work out how to tackle the world’s energy challenges,...