renewables

Investment

NatWest smashes green energy lending target with £3.5bn funding boost

Bank reveals it has provided £3.5bn of lending to UK renewable energy and energy efficiency projects over the past three years

clock 22 March 2018 • 2 min read

Energy

CDP: 100 cities worldwide source at least 70 per cent of power from renewables

Seattle, Auckland, and Nairobi among urban centres sourcing majority of their power from renewables, as more than 40 cities now run on 100 per cent clean electricity

clock 27 February 2018 • 2 min read

Biomass

Renewables meet equivalent of entire British electricity demand - in 1958

Sixty years ago annual electricity demand hit 91TWh - in 2017 the UK produced 96TWh from renewables alone

clock 21 February 2018 • 1 min read

Energy

Merchants eaten by cannibals: Why a hike in the carbon price is the best way to drive green power

Neil Cornelius of Berkeley Research Group explains why pure merchant investment in low carbon power will not deliver UK decarbonisation

clock 21 February 2018 • 4 min read

Energy

BP Energy Outlook 2018: What's changed since last year?

Comparing last year's Outlook to the latest one reveals crucial shifts in BP's expectations for green technologies

clock 20 February 2018 • 7 min read

Energy

Meet the new 'renewable superpowers': nations that boss the materials used for wind and solar

Could the renewables boom create new resource superpowers? Andrew Barron investigates

clock 19 February 2018 • 5 min read

Energy

Green energy supplier wins Essex Energy Switch auction

So Energy wins the chance to supply almost 6,000 residents with electricity after securing deal through county's energy switch campaign

clock 19 February 2018 • 1 min read

Policy

BEIS proposes energy, climate and fracking opinion poll overhaul

BEIS is planning to re-jig public energy and climate change surveys to bring it up to speed with government priorities

clock 16 February 2018 • 2 min read

Energy

Renewables hit 18 per cent share of US electricity mix

Clean energy contribution to the US electricity mix has doubled in the last decade, according to latest BNEF report

clock 15 February 2018 • 2 min read

Legislation

Green raving? Balearic Islands plan switch to 100 per cent renewable power

Ibiza, Menorca, Formentera, and Mallorca will transition to 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2050 under ambitious new climate law

clock 15 February 2018 • 2 min read