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Energy

July 2023

  • Li Shuo

    Is China really leading the clean energy revolution? Not exactly

    Li Shuo
    The country generates more solar energy than the rest of the world combined, but burns half the planet’s coal, says Li Shuo of Greenpeace East Asia

June 2023

  • Wind turbines in a field

    England ‘4,700 years from building enough onshore windfarms’

    Thinktank says effective ban on planning permissions means country is way behind on much-needed renewable energy

May 2023

  • Paul Brabbins at home in Halifax.

    Pump it up: UK householders on ditching their gas central heating

    Climate crisis and high fossil fuel prices motivated some to invest in heat pumps – how did their first winter go?

April 2023

  • The government has refused to mandate solar panels on the roofs of new buildings.

    UK investment in clean energy transition falls 10%, bucking global trend

  • Air heat pump outdoors.

    High costs and uncertainties cast a chill over Britain’s heat pump market

March 2023

  • Workers installing solar electric panels on a residential property

    Weatherwatch
    Solar is now viable even in rainy climes – so why aren’t we making hay?

  • The hydrogen village information centre in Whitby, Ellesmere Port

    Cheshire villagers will not be forced to join hydrogen energy trial

February 2023

  • ‘The new system may also create over 28m more long-term, full-time jobs than lost worldwide and require only about 0.53% of the world’s land for new energy – less than the land required for the current energy system.’

    We don’t need ‘miracle’ technologies to fix the climate. We have the tools now

    Mark Z Jacobson
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    In the global race to dominate green technology, Britain is still tying its shoelaces

    Andrew Rawnsley

January 2023

  • Wind turbines in California

    ‘No miracles needed’: Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world

    The influential academic says renewables alone can halt climate crisis, with technologies such as carbon capture expensive wastes of time
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Northvolt v Britishvolt: clarity v confusion in the great electric car battery race

    Nils Pratley
    Fast action in global gigafactory race is happening outside UK, as Swedish pacesetter shows

    • International nuclear fusion project may be delayed by years, its head admits

    • UK sets new record for wind power generation

    • £50m fund will boost UK nuclear fuel projects, ministers say

December 2022

  • E.ON’s UK boss Michael Lewis

    Observer business profile
    Michael Lewis of E.ON: ‘Customers never felt the need to engage with energy – now they really do’

    The chief executive of the UK’s second-largest energy supplier has found his views on the industry have never been more in demand
  • Robin McKie

    Despite the hype, we shouldn’t bank on nuclear fusion to save the world from climate catastrophe

    Robin McKie
    Last week’s experiment in the US is promising, but it’s not a magic bullet for our energy needs
  • Hand adjusting heating dial

    Britons save £3m by using power-hungry appliances at quieter times

    National Grid push to use devices such as washing machines and dryers at low-demand periods ‘paying dividends’

November 2022

  • Britishvolt executive chairman Peter Rolton shows a billboard promoting the company's planned battery plant in Blyth, north-east England.

    Battery life
    Britishvolt scraps plan for second factory in Canada

    Troubled startup battery maker formally abandons long-shot plan to build 60GW plant in Quebec
  • A power supply port for an electric vehicle.

    Full Story
    Are electric vehicles about to become affordable? – with Lenore Taylor

    In this episode of Full Story, Gabrielle Jackson talks to Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher about the new electric car discount, and the road to zero emissions vehicles
  • Dale Vince standing outside a corrugated iron industrial facility painted green. He is wearing black and white cargo pants and a sweatshirt with skulls on the elbows. His hair is swept to one side.

    ‘I don’t try and fit in’: energy boss Dale Vince on fracking, Farage and going green

    Dale Vince is not your run-of-the-mill power company chief. Here, the founder of Ecotricity talks about green energy, warring with Elon Musk – and his vegan football team
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