What would happen if we had cancelled renewables and reverted to coal or gas? Our findings show that electricity prices would be up to 50 pct higher than they are now.

This leads to a frustrating situation where expensive gas plants determine the price of electricity the bulk of the time. In 2021, gas set the price of electricity 98 per cent of the time in the UK, ...

Explore the UK's 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy with £725bn for energy, transport, and more, boosting growth and climate ...

Officers admitted the 22 115-metre (380ft) turbines would cause 'significant adverse effects' to the landscape and harm the setting of historic farmhouses, but they'll produce about 10% of Cornwall's ...

Northern Ireland's first draft Climate Action Plan has been published for consultation. It is a roadmap to support emission ...

Look more closely at the UK’s energy policy, though, and it still seems like a strange hotchpotch of measures, rather than a clear, organised and inspiring approach to the opportunities offered by the ...

Wind and solar power has reached 30 per cent of European electricity generation and has overtaken fossil fuels. It is clear Europe sees the future of nuclear in the smaller plants now being developed.

My reading of Victoria’s new transmission document is that it doesn’t really want to do much more onshore development and prefers to have higher cost offshore wind.

Gas power plants are used in short, expensive bursts to fill gaps in wind and solar generation. In 2023, UK industrial consumers paid an average of 25.85p per kilowatt-hour for their power ...