George Osborne has said that the government will be reducing the cost of energy bills by cutting back on green levies. Appearing on The Andrew Marr...
The government has denied reports that it has asked energy firms to freeze household bills until after the next general election. The BBC reported that ministers...
Good Energy and Ecotricity, two leading renewable energy suppliers, have taken the unprecedented steps of freezing their gas and electricity prices until the end of winter....
The UK’s carbon price floor, a tax on fossil fuels used to generate electricity, should be scrapped, voices from within the industry have said. As the...
Official statistics have revealed a 29% increase in winter deaths during 2012/13, compared with the previous winter. The figures have raised concerns that the number could...
RWE Npower has dropped plans to build a 240-turbine wind farm in the Bristol Channel that would have powered nearly 1m homes, saying it was “not...
Energy watchdog Ofgem has said that suppliers’ profits rose by 77% last year to £53 per home, but energy giants have claimed these figures are “out...
The failure of UN negotiations in Warsaw to secure global carbon emission reductions, along with David Cameron’s recent comments – in which he allegedly told aides...
Downing Street has said that it does not recognise the comments allegedly made by Prime Minister David Cameron when he told aides to “get rid of...
The construction industry has warned that a review into green levies on energy bills could result in the loss of more than 10,000 construction and insulation...
The Conservative party has returned a decade’s worth of pre-election speeches to the internet, including many promises on the subjects of green taxes and climate change,...
Energy supplier E.ON has told the government that watering down the Energy Companies Obligations (ECO) could put off investors. The firm said that it would be...
David Cameron’s pledge to ‘roll back’ green levies could in fact cause energy bills to rise, the chairman of the energy and climate change select committee...
The Conservative party has been accused of deleting a decade’s worth of pre-election speeches from the internet – including many that promised action on climate change...
Ethical energy supplier Co-operative Energy has announced that it will be reducing the energy price increase that it announced last month, from 4.5% to 2.5%. The...