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Energy

July 2021

  • Barges tow wind turbines

    Shell and Scottish Power submit plans for floating offshore windfarms

    Energy firms hope to produce world’s first large-scale floating turbines in north-east Scotland

June 2021

  • A woman plugs her electric car in to charge

    Electric cars: switching tariff could save £300-plus a year

    Many motorists charging their vehicle at home don’t even know special cost-cutting deals exist

May 2021

  • Copper wire at a factory in Vietnam. The price of copper rose to a record $10,700 a tonne last week

    Record metals boom may threaten transition to green energy

    Demand and prices are soaring for minerals essential to the construction of low-carbon infrastructure

March 2021

  • Emissions from a domestic gas boiler

    First microwave-powered home boiler could help cut emissions

  • A 3-metre Vortex Bladeless wind power turbine.

    Good vibrations: bladeless turbines could bring wind power to your home

November 2020

  • house gas heating boiler maintenance and repair service

    The upside
    Scottish homes to be first in world to use 100% green hydrogen

  • Incoming pipelines leading to the Bovanenkovo gas field in Siberia.

    Russia rules out cutting fossil fuel production in next few decades

October 2020

  • Wind turbines in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

    'Tech unicorn' Octopus Energy to create 1,000 new UK jobs

    Firm says it wants to help Britain become ‘best place to invest in clean energy’

September 2020

  • The Whitelee windfarm, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm

    Scottish green hydrogen scheme gears up to fuel ferries, buses and trains

    Wind and solar farms will produce the gas alongside Scottish Power, ITM Power and BOC

July 2020

  • domestic gas boiler

    UK electricity grid's carbon emissions could turn negative by 2033, says National Grid

    Operator says UK can tap carbon capture and renewables to help meet UK’s targets

May 2020

  • Darling Downs solar farm near Dalby, Queensland<br>epa08212705 An undated handout photo made available by the Australian energy infrastructure business APA Group shows an aerial view of the Darling Downs solar farm near Dalby, Queensland, Australia (issued 12 February 2020). The region, known for its coal and gas, has seen a rise in renewable energy projects. EPA/APA GROUP HANDOUT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    Australian Politics
    Australia's energy policy: a roadmap without a destination – Australian politics live podcast

    Guardian Australia’s environment editor, Adam Morton, joins political editor, Katharine Murphy, to discuss the week’s news on energy policy.

April 2020

  • A Wind Farm

    Covering Climate Now
    Green energy could drive Covid-19 recovery with $100tn boost

    Speeding up investment could deliver huge gains to global GDP by 2050 while tackling climate emergency, says report

March 2020

  • Dark solar panel panels, a modular battery energy storage system and a wind turbine system in Germany.

    Energy storage boom stalls in Europe

    Slowdown in large-scale clean energy projects started before coronavirus crisis due to lack of state support
  • Hands holding a gas flame.

    Is hydrogen the solution to net-zero home heating?

    Up to a third of the UK’s greenhouse emissions come from central heating. But a proposed switch from natural gas to hydrogen has experts divided
  • A303 with traffic, near Stonehenge, Wiltshire

    Budget: missed chance to lead on climate crisis

    Protected oil and gas industries and huge road schemes push back net-zero emissions plan

February 2020

  • Rooftop solar panels

    Australian power prices forecast to fall by 7% by 2022 as cost of renewables drops

    Energy board says renewables growth will cut electricity prices, but warns extreme weather and ageing coal plants a threat to energy security

January 2020

  • Solar panels

    Renewables beat fossil fuels on 137 days in greenest year for UK energy

    Renewable energy up 9% on 2018 but nuclear outages are limiting progress, report warns

November 2019

  • Solar energy panels in night sky.

    Solar farms can keep UK’s lights on even at night

  • Heliogen’s solar energy plant in Lancaster, California

    Bill Gates backs startup using sunlight to create 1,000C-plus heat

October 2019

  • An electric kettle boils.

    Wait eight seconds longer for your kettle – and cut your carbon bill

    Electricity North West says plans to lower its voltage could cut emissions by 10% and save customers £60 a year
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