All news on the topic: Renewable energy

Alarm that Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania may fall next after party’s Saxony-Anhalt election victory

Britain’s electricity grid was "right on the limit" during a June heatwave, and power cuts are a "matter of time" unless problems are addressed, a whistleblower has claimed.

The moment renewable energy nerds like me have been waiting for has arrived: plug-in solar, plug-and-play solar, balcony solar – whatever you want to call it – is now permitted in the UK.

Britain could save £320billion over 20 years by ripping up current Net Zero electricity plans, keeping gas and building more nuclear power instead, a major new report claims.

Andy Burnham has been told Labour risks losing 50 seats to the Green Party if he pushes ahead with new drilling in the North Sea.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has given the green light for the construction of the UK’s second largest solar farm, set to be built on the border between Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

A Scottish wind farm has been bought by a company whose founder and major shareholder is a right-wing US media mogul who has donated to Donald Trump.

A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland.

Andy Burnham is being urged to adopt a clean power plan that could cut household energy bills by £500 a year after vowing to give families “breathing space” on the cost of living.

The energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been a serious challenge for the transition to renewable energy sources.

Bornholm helped pioneer offshore wind power in the 1940s. Now residents want to build one of the world’s largest community-owned wind farms, raising the bar for locally controlled renewable energy.

Labour should consider reducing national insurance and granting new oil drilling licenses for the North Sea, Wes Streeting said as he continued to advocate for the party’s leadership.

Drax, the UK’s largest carbon emitter, is planning to bypass UK Government climate regulations to power a hyperscale AI data centre – facing opposition from MPs across all three major parties.

The agreement is the first of its kind between the GCC and a G7 country, and will eliminate tariffs on billions of euros worth of British exports.

Wealthy landowners — including a Swedish aristocrat, relatives of a former prime minister, and a Tory donor — are reportedly earning millions in rent from wind farms subsidised through public energy bills.

It was in the rarefied environment of the Gleneagles Townhouse, a five-star luxury hotel and exclusive members club in Edinburgh’s New Town, that one of the most recent meetings recorded on the Scottish lobbying register occurred.

The oil crisis triggered by the Iran war has changed the fossil fuel industry forever, turning countries away from fossil fuels to secure energy supplies.

Trump’s war in Iran has boosted the fortunes of US gas companies – and UK savers are unwittingly bankrolling their expansion.

The knock-on effects of the conflict now whipping through the Middle East are awakening ghosts of crises past that shook the European Union.

Drax has announced plans to transform a portion of its power plant in North Yorkshire into a datacentre by 2027 in order to meet the growing demand for AI capability.

Residents of a small Mississippi town are suing Drax Biomass after the company won a permit to become a “major source” of hazardous air pollution at a local wood pellet production plant.

Moneypoint power station to remain on standby until 2029 – will run on fuel oil in emergencies

Decision on collaborating with turbine manufacturer is being managed by ministers following the rescue of British Steel