Energy
Labour, Lib Dems, and Greens go head to head with fresh wave of 'climate emergency' pledges
Labour announces major solar roll out plan for libraries and communities, as Lib Dems pledge £100bn to tackling 'climate emergency' and Greens propose Universal Basic Income
A whole new way to love McDonald's: its climate goals
Having inked its first major US renewables deal, the fast food giant is now exploring to curb emissions from its thousands of franchises
Shell announces support for Europe's first sustainable aviation fuel plant
SkyNRG plant aims to use waste cooking oil and hydrogen to produce aviation fuel with lifecycle carbon emissions approximately 85 per cent lower than conventional jet fuels
Octopus Renewables snaps up nine wind farms from RES in €100m deal
Green energy investor to add 130MW to its growing portfolio of renewables in UK, Ireland, and France
Studies reveal conflicting signals for UK smart and flexible grid developers
Assessment of 21 countries finds UK flexibility services market is relatively well developed, but separate study warns country is still struggling to attract smart grid investment
'Subsidy free': Joint venture aims to help community energy projects access power purchase deals
Partnership between Midcounties Co-operative and Octopus Energy has secured five PPAs and is aiming to make it easier for community projects in the UK to sell their power
Cities urged to 'join dots' between transport, energy, and built environment
New report argues that innovative transport decarbonisation plans can deliver wide-ranging benefits for health and quality of life in urban areas
'Joining the dots': Cities have opportunity to lead response to climate crisis
Cities are critical to tackling climate change, argues Dr Clare Linton, but they have to start connecting energy, building, and transport infrastructure to drive decarbonisation
IEA: Rapid pivot to clean technologies essential to meet global climate goals
Alignment with Paris Agreement remains long way off but investment in energy efficiency, offshore wind, and battery storage could yet place countries on a sustainable course, IEA declares in World Energy Outlook 2019
Winds of change: RWE and E.ON tie up renewable supply agreement
Deal covers 892MW of wind generation capacity from farms originally built by E.ON as part of firm's £3.3bn investment in UK renewables over past decade
Coal Free Kingdom
Manifestos should go beyond the coal power phase-out, and commit to making the UK truly coal-free, argues campaign group Sandbag
'Significant financial risk': 9 in 10 of world's energy companies have no plan to reach net zero
Only 13 of the world's 132 biggest energy firms have net zero commitments in place, study finds
What are the pathways to net zero gas and heating?
David Smith, chief executive of the Energy Networks Association, outlines a roadmap for decarbonising the UK gas system
'Milestone moment': Cornwall Local Energy Market achieves major flexibility breakthrough
Energy firm Centrica announces its platform can now host both transmission and distribution networks simultaneously
Greenlink: Planning applications submitted for Irish Sea interconnector
Proposals would run from Pembrokeshire in Wales to County Wexford in Ireland, linking UK to expanding Irish wind farm resources
Report: One billion people worldwide lack access to cooling
Governments, industry, and development finance need to collaborate to reduce the number of people at risk from lack of access to cooling, report states
Moixa reaches 10,000 smart battery platform milestone in Japan
UK-based start up entered the Japanese market less than a year ago in partnership with trading giant ITOCHU
Shell snaps up stake in off-grid solar energy firm d.light
Oil giant invests in start-up seeking to deliver electricity to millions of people across Africa and Asia
Energy bodies beef up support for smarter, greener grids
Energy Systems Catapult launches new storage modelling tool, as Energy Networks Association debuts campaign for a greener grid
BP invests $10m in Finnish city transport app MaaS Global
British oil giant's investment arm says latest deal forms part of its strategy to make urban transport smarter in a digital world
More than an investor: Five things to look for in a clean energy partner
The success of a clean energy start-up often means looking beyond the number of zeros on a cheque, argues Elena Bou, innovation director at InnoEnergy
Rolls Royce: Mini nuclear reactor vision backed by government and industry
UK Research and Innovation has confirmed an initial investment of £18m in a programme to design a compact nuclear power station
Election 2019: A five-point renewable energy wishlist
REA chief executive Nina Skorupska calls on political parties to put climate action front and centre as their election campaigns get underway
'Simply not enough': Annual climate finance flows hit half a trillion dollars milestone
Annual climate investments across 2017-18 were 25 per cent higher than during 2015-16, analysts find, but total falls far short of the trillions needed to meet global climate goals
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