Lower-than-expected uptake of government heat pump incentives risks slowing one of the UK’s biggest opportunities to lower its carbon emissions, the National Audit Office has warned.
A state-owned renewable energy company will drive local investment in community-owned low-carbon energy and meet the Welsh Government’s net zero aims, ministers have said.
Dr Jim Cuthbert questions whether the government’s funding method for its nuclear power programme provides value for money, given it now expects the plants to take nearly twice as long to build.
Creating a state-owned company to generate electricity could save UK households £21bn a year and help accelerate the transition towards net zero, a think-tank has said.
New prime minister Liz Truss has outlined plans she said will save average households £1,000 a year for the next two years on energy bills, but faces criticism over refusing to further tax suppliers...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could speed efforts to decarbonise Western energy supplies. But how will governments recoup lost tax income from fossil fuel?
An energy company owned by Warrington Borough Council has delayed complying with an order to pay £12.4m to regulator Ofgem, running the risk of losing its licence to supply energy.
Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
A Scottish council has launched a 50/50 joint venture energy company with a Swedish state-owned energy firm to supply heating to a new town on the edge of Edinburgh.
The future of our planet depends on finding a financially sustainable way to implement technologies that reduce carbon emissions from buildings, says Tim Reade.
Nottingham City Council’s strategic director of finance raised concerns over the quality of information provided by a standalone energy company which has made £34.4m of losses, according to auditors.
Bristol City Council has relaunched a tender for a partnership deal to help with the decarbonisation of energy in the city, after the initial process was criticised by bidders.
Between 2010 and 2017 60% - £4.6bn - of the UK’s support for energy in developing countries went towards fossil fuel sources, according to analysis by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development....
