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Government faces fresh legal threat over Heathrow expansion plans
Government faces fresh legal threat over Heathrow expansion plans

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins

  • Policy
  • 21 December 2020
Dewley Hill coal mine: Newcastle council blocks controversial project
Dewley Hill coal mine: Newcastle council blocks controversial project

Banks Mining slams 'outrageous' decision to reject opencast coal mine project, but decision is warmly welcomed by climate campaigners

  • Energy
  • 21 December 2020
Save your energy for a green winter
Save your energy for a green winter

Smart meters are an easy way for businesses to understand how much energy they're using and to identify ways to reduce their consumption, explains Smart Energy GB

  • Energy
  • 21 December 2020
Make all new boilers hydrogen-ready by 2025, grid operators urge
Make all new boilers hydrogen-ready by 2025, grid operators urge

Boiler manufacturers and Energy Networks Association call for sale of greener alternatives to fossil fuel boilers to be mandatory within five years

  • Infrastructure
  • 21 December 2020
'Modern, smarter, digitally enabled': Ofgem sets out price control plan for local networks from 2023
'Modern, smarter, digitally enabled': Ofgem sets out price control plan for local networks from 2023

Energy regulator sets out how it expects to deliver a 'more modern, smarter, digitally enabled' grid that can support up to 11 million electric vehicles by 2030 and increased demand for heat pumps

  • Energy
  • 21 December 2020
'Real risks of social backlash': UK utilities urged to publish dedicated 'just transition' plans
'Real risks of social backlash': UK utilities urged to publish dedicated 'just transition' plans

National Grid, E.On, RWE, Scottish Power, EDF and Centrica urged to follow SSE’s lead and publish dedicated strategies setting out how workers and consumers will be protected from any shocks of net zero transition

  • Energy
  • 21 December 2020
Giant 14MW mega-turbines heading for the North Sea
Giant 14MW mega-turbines heading for the North Sea

GE Renewable Energy confirms latest order from Dogger Bank wind farm will see upgraded 14MW Haliade-X turbines deployed for the first time

  • Wind
  • 18 December 2020
Six mind-bending energy moments of 2020
Six mind-bending energy moments of 2020

GreenBiz's Sarah Golden looks bag at an historic year for the clean energy transition

  • Energy
  • 18 December 2020
IEA: Global coal demand to rise in 2021 with 'no immediate decline in sight'
IEA: Global coal demand to rise in 2021 with 'no immediate decline in sight'

After major drop in recent years coal demand set to rise next year and is unlikely to flatten out until 2025, warns International Energy Agency

  • Energy
  • 18 December 2020
Wind-powered pints: Huge turbine powers Budweiser brewery in Wales
Wind-powered pints: Huge turbine powers Budweiser brewery in Wales

One of UK's largest onshore wind turbines installed to help directly power Budweiser's Magor brewery in South Wales

  • Wind
  • 18 December 2020
Good Energy to launch 'time-of-use' energy tariff for electric vehicle drivers
Good Energy to launch 'time-of-use' energy tariff for electric vehicle drivers

Green energy supplier claims its new tariff will offer a longer off-peak charging window than others on the UK market

  • Energy
  • 18 December 2020
'Important moment': UK oil and gas industry tasked with net zero obligations
'Important moment': UK oil and gas industry tasked with net zero obligations

Industry watchdog the Oil & Gas Authority submits revised strategy to Parliament that for the first time includes obligation for sector to support pursuit of UK's 2050 net zero goal

  • Net Zero Now
  • 17 December 2020
Inside ENGIE's plans to transform Rugeley coal power plant into a low carbon community
Inside ENGIE's plans to transform Rugeley coal power plant into a low carbon community

VIDEO: Rugeley coal station has generated electricity for over 50 years, but will soon make way for green homes and job opportinities - BusinessGreen paid a visit

  • Net Zero Now
  • 17 December 2020
'We're getting there': Smart meters on track to reach half of Britain's homes and businesses in 2021
'We're getting there': Smart meters on track to reach half of Britain's homes and businesses in 2021

The smart meter rollout has faced major disruption due to Covid-19, but installations are on the up again and experts believe the technology has the potential to unlock the next wave of the net zero transition

  • Infrastructure
  • 16 December 2020
Lendlease to ban diesel on construction sites in zero carbon push
Lendlease to ban diesel on construction sites in zero carbon push

Property firm to phase out diesel use on its construction sites from 2025 as it sets out plans to align business with 1.5C global warming trajectory

  • Technology
  • 16 December 2020
Ofgem must put the UK's net zero goal at the heart of every decision in makes
Ofgem must put the UK's net zero goal at the heart of every decision in makes

To benefit current and future consumers, the energy watchdog should place net zero at the centre of everything it does, writes RenewableUK's Yonna Vitanova

  • Energy
  • 16 December 2020
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Ecotricity's Dale Vince
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Ecotricity's Dale Vince

VIDEO: Green entrepreneur and Forest Green Rovers' chairman speaks to BusinessGreen's James Murray about his career in renewable energy and his new book 'Manifesto'

  • Energy
  • 15 December 2020
'Flexible and renewable focus': Drax to sell four gas power stations in £193m deal
'Flexible and renewable focus': Drax to sell four gas power stations in £193m deal

Sale of four combined cycle gas turbine sites acquired just two years ago will allow Drax to slash emissions and enhance its focus on flexible and renewable power generation, company says

  • Energy
  • 15 December 2020
'Woefully inadequate': ExxonMobil touts 'Paris consistent' climate plan
'Woefully inadequate': ExxonMobil touts 'Paris consistent' climate plan

US oil and gas major offers 'respect and support' for global ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, but campaigners remain less than convinced

  • Energy
  • 15 December 2020
The Energy White Paper and the nuclear stand-off
The Energy White Paper and the nuclear stand-off

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels

  • 15 December 2020
Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper
Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper

  • Politics
  • 14 December 2020
Energy White Paper: The green economy reacts
Energy White Paper: The green economy reacts

'Business stands ready to deliver the investment and innovation needed to turn ambition into reality, and the proposals outlined in the Energy White Paper will give firms further confidence to deliver new infrastructure'

  • Policy
  • 14 December 2020
Energy White Paper: Government unveils plan for 'decisive and permanent' shift away from fossil fuels
Energy White Paper: Government unveils plan for 'decisive and permanent' shift away from fossil fuels

Long-awaited Energy White Paper set to be unleashed alongside plan to establish domestic UK emissions trading scheme from 2021

  • Energy
  • 14 December 2020
The business case for a fair and just transition to net zero
The business case for a fair and just transition to net zero

SSE's chief sustainability officer and member of Scotland's Just Transition Commission, Rachel McEwen, sets out the principles underpinning the firm's Just Transition strategy

  • Energy
  • 14 December 2020
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