Energy
Shell ponders Australia trade body exit over climate 'misalignment'
Oil and gas giant details climate policy misalignments with several major global trade associations in latest review
'Europe's largest': Zenobe plots 'pioneering' 100MW battery project near Chester
Zenobe claims Battery will be largest grid-connected battery in Europe and first to absorb reactive power directly from a transmission network
Natural capital: Carbon sink value of UK waters estimated at £57bn
Carbon sequestration in and around UK waters trumps value of potential fossil fuel extraction in these areas, Office for National Statistics estimates
'Greenest ever': Britain's power grid CO2 falls to record low on Easter Monday
Low demand for power sees carbon intensity on grid plummet to lowest ever level, National Grid ESO confirms
Report: Record US and EU coal plant retirements offset by China coal boom in 2020
Just under 38GW of coal plants were retired in 2020, largely in the US and EU, but just over 38GW of new coal plants were commissioned in China, Global Energy Monitor calculates
Apple reveals 110 of its global suppliers on track to meet 100 per cent clean power goal
Tech giant reveals almost 8GW of clean power is due to come online via its manufacturing partners
Institute for Government: Green Homes Grant Scheme 'badly undermined' by Whitehall
Think tank argues green homes policy hampered by poor delivery, optimistic timetables, and lack of Whitehall coordination
MPs urge government to unlock potential of UK tidal power
The EAC has emphasised the potential of tidal power to both provide clean energy for the grid and provide broader economic benefits, in a letter sent to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng
Energy data key to achieving net zero electricity
An ambitious approach to data discovery is critical for achieving a net zero grid and but would help unleash a Cambrian explosion of innovation in the UK energy sector, writes Peter Clutton-Brock of the Centre for AI & Climate and E3G
Ditching Green Homes Grant scheme will hit north hardest, think tank warns
Regions of northern England most likely to miss out on urgently needed upgrade work when Green Homes Grant voucher scheme closes for applications today, ECIU warns
Confidence is evaporating: How fossil fuel share offerings plummet $123bn since 2012
Finds raised through stock market flotations for companies involved in fossil fuels have dwindles, while clean energy IPOs begin to surge, analysis suggests
EU risks 'overestimating' costs of meeting 2030 climate goals, businesses warn
European Commission's economic and energy modelling must be improved to avoid inflating costs, European Corporate Leaders Group warns
'Bolt on the rocket boosters': Energy Systems Catapult calls for sweeping electricity market reform to drive net zero revolution
New report says raft of policy changes geared incentivising innovators to create new low carbon products and services for consumers could generate 'big bang' moment for the energy sector akin to finance in the 80s and telecoms in the 90s
'Build Back Better': When is an industrial strategy not an industrial strategy?
As the government announces another wave of clean tech funding, a new Plan for Growth is taking shape – and it looks a lot like the industrial strategy it replaces
BSI publishes net zero blueprint for scaling industrial biotechnology sector
National standards body partners with government innovation agency InnovateUK and the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum on major new report setting out full potential for bio feedstocks
Getting hot under the collar about heat
As the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat incentive comes to an end, there is no comparable scheme to replace it, leaving a huge gap in heat decarbonisation policy gap, explains REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska
How wind and solar drove a record fall in coal power in 2020 - and why it's nowhere near enough
Analysis from energy think tank Ember celebrates a record fall in coal-fired power generation through 2020, but warns the global energy system remains far from alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement
Do the UK's hydrogen ambitions risk being 'captured' by fossil fuel companies?
Fossil fuel firms are increasingly eyeing up plans for blue hydrogen production, but think tank E3G fears the nascent sector risks locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure and jobs
UK greenhouse gases plummet almost nine per cent during Covid-hit 2020
But green groups warn without drastic action emissions could creep back up again this year after freak 2020
Octopus on Octopus: Energy supplier to take on 2.8GW renewable power portfolio
Octopus Energy to bring retail business and 2.8GW renewables portfolio under single roof as it aims to match supply with generation
Green heat: How can the UK drive mass heat pump adoption in the 2020s?
The UK must ramp up heat pump installations at least 25-fold by 2028 to meet current goals, but governance, incentives, and funding support are lacking, a new report argues
'Economic injury': How the UK's electricity and transport networks could be racking up £264bn in hidden societal costs
Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation
'Green and red together': Labour steps up critique of a government 'asleep at the wheel' of the green recovery
Ed Miliband is to unveil sweeping plans for an electric vehicle revolution, as opposition accuses government of delivering a badly 'underpowered' green industrial strategy
UK offshore wind: Industry predicts £60bn investment blitz to drive 69,000 jobs
The forecast is outlined in a new report from the OWIC, which details £60bn of planned investment in offshore wind between now and 2026
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