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...
By subsidising the production and consumption of energy generated from fossil fuels, the British government is undermining international efforts to avert climate change while draining its...
Broadcast from the beautiful Cornish town of St Austell, two leading renewable energy suppliers got a mention on Question Time, the BBC’s flagship political debate programme, on...
On a typical energy bill of £1,500, environmental taxes add around £70. That £70 invests in the development of clean, limitless and domestically generated energy. It...
Chancellor George Osborne’s weekend Observer article calling for Britain to be the best at ‘technology’ rings slightly hollow, when you realise he’s talking about digital technology. Digital...
Kate Turner, external affairs manager at Good Energy, debunks some of the most common myths on shale gas and wind power. Matt Ridley’s column in the Times last week...
Rebecca O’Connor, editor of renewable energy investment platform Trillion Fund, goes through 10 good reasons for investing directly in renewable energy projects. If you can’t put...
The German Bundestag, the country’s parliament, voted in 2012 to cut state subsidies for solar power in an attempt to control rocketing surcharges on electricity bills....
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...
This week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for more effort by the UK government to stimulate a strong and sustainable recovery. Simon Leadbetter lays out what...
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...
Ben Goldsmith, partner at sustainable investment group WHEB, outlines three reasons why global fossil fuel subsidies will not last a generation. Fossil fuel subsidies are a...
The environmental audit committee has begun an investigation into the government’s distribution of subsidies for nuclear power, fossil fuels and renewable energy. The committee will look...
A tidal lagoon project at Swansea Bay, set for consultation in the next few weeks, could provide over 100,000 homes in the area with clean, renewable...