Energy

New analysis from the Association of British Insurers warns UK faces £615bn funding challenge to meet requirements for energy, transport, and housing infrastructure through to 2030 - having secured a little over half the £1.3tr needed

National Grid moves capacity equivalent to six Hinkley Point C nuclear power stations up connections queue, promising major boost to energy storage developers

Company expected to secure £500m support package to help curb emissions, but trade unions warn move could put 2,000 jobs at risk

Proposed net zero 'tests' for future licensing rounds branded as 'beyond disingenuous' by climate campaigners

Governments pledge to work closer together on offshore wind, carbon capture, electricity interconnectors, and industrial, heat and buildings decarbonisation projects

Plus: Panama Canal drought worsens and President Biden greenlights largest US offshore wind farm in our round up of all the top green business news from around the world this week

Sheaf Energy Park expected to be one of the UK's largest battery storage schemes once completed

EXCLUSIVE: Lord Callanan touts heat pumps and heat networks as replacement for vast majority of fossil gas boilers as he warns that hydrogen remains 'very problematical' for home heating

PARTNER INSIGHT: Energy giant doubles down on net zero target with plan to reduce reliance on offsets and increase investment in home energy efficiency

The Finnish city of Turku may seem like a ‘very normal city’, but in bringing its net zero target forward by more than a decade it promises to become a trail-blazer for green urban development