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Tim Yeo MP, chairman of the influential Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned Chancellor George Osborne not to gamble the UK's future on the hope of cheap gas.
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The 175th and final turbine of the first phase at the 630 MW London Array windfarm has been installed.
EDF Energy's designs for nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C in Somerset and Sizewell C in Suffolk have been approved, it was announced today.
Both of the warring factions in the energy policy battle - otherwise collectively known as the coalition government - displayed unbridled pleasure in having reached an "agreement" last week over some elements of the Energy Bill.
Governments must share some of the risk of carbon dioxide leaking from carbon capture and
Scottish Water plans to generate almost a third of its energy needs from a single windfarm. The water company announced today it is exploring the option of an 18-turbine windfarm at its Backwater Reservoir site near Kirriemuir, Angus.
Setting a decarbonisation target for 2030 now would involve a gamble that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is available, prime minister David Cameron told MPs yesterday.
Two windfarms based in Scotland hit milestones today, as work started on a windfarm near Inverness and SSE received planning permission for an extension of its windfarm in South Lanarkshire.
Shale gas has no future in the UK because it will not help us to meet our carbon emission obligations, the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee heard today.
A dash for gas could derail the nuclear and renewables industries, speakers warned at a Nuclear Industry Association conference in London last week.
Britain's power demand will remain flat to 2020 according to forecasts by the pan-European electricity industry association Eurelectric.
Eon and RWE’s sale of Horizon Nuclear Power to Hitachi flowed from German energy policy,
Protest groups use social media to galvanise support and organise demonstrations, but clued-up utilities can monitor them and forestall action, say Will Densham and Kate Poole
Ofgem chief Alistair Buchanan once claimed in a radio interview that he would go after the energy suppliers wearing his "regulatory hobnailed boots" if they didn't play fair with the consumers. His interviewer likened his bravado to that of the "cowardly lion". It was all very embarrassing and entirely misleading, because Buchanan had no hobnailed boots - neither metaphorical nor real.
The government has been urged to establish a clear vision for distributed generation to help solve the UK's energy trilemma of sustainability, affordability and security, and to increase the capacity of renewables.
EDF Energy is extending the operating life of Hinkley Point B and Hunterston B nuclear power stations by seven years, it announced today.
The first food waste anaerobic digestion plant in Britain to be built in a sewage treatment works opened in Bristol today.
The government will announce plans to exempt energy intensive industries from the extra costs associated with the contracts for difference (CfD) regime, alongside the Energy Bill to be unveiled today.
Energy supplier interest in investing in upstream gas assets is escalating - especially at Centrica - on the back of continuing high gas prices and security of supply concerns. Nigel Hawkins writes