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July 2024

  • Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales.

    British electricity prices could hinder switch to green technology, says steel industry

    UK Steel says British firms paid prices in spring well over double French and Spanish equivalents

May 2024

  • Close up of a house smart meter reading £6.20 used so far today

    British Gas boss says all UK households should be forced to fit smart meters

  • Grangemouth oil refinery

    Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors

April 2024

  • An aerial view of a pink sunset and a smokestack (steamstack?) in silhouette in the foreground, pumping out what is apparently steam.

    US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale

    Recent $74m investment made alongside assessment that 10% of electricity could be generated by geothermal by 2050

January 2024

  • Steam rises from the chimneys of a power plant at the Olkaria geothermal complex in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya.

    The alternatives
    ‘Our contribution to a cleaner world’: How Kenya found an extraordinary power source beneath its feet

  • Steam billows from the cooling tower of the Golfech nuclear power plant in the Occitanie region of France

    Nuclear power output expected to break global records in 2025

December 2023

  • The Pintado wind farm in Florida, Uruguay.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done

    Stung by 2008’s oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit?
  • Illustration shows two engineers installing a heat pump

    Heat pumps are hot property in Europe. Does Britain have cold feet?

    In France, they outsold fossil fuel boilers last year, with rapid progress in Poland, Germany, Italy and the Nordic countries. In the UK, muddled policy is blamed for a slow rate of installation
  • Heat pumps - Interactive. Graphic by Ellen Wishart

    A fridge but in reverse? The fascinating science of heat pumps – visualised

    Despite being more like a refrigerator than a gas boiler, this home heating technology could slash Britain’s emissions, and bills

November 2023

  • Power cables being manufactured

    ‘It’s like buying an iPhone and not having a cable’: UK’s bid for net zero in the balance due to grid ‘blind spot’

    As well as more clean energy, Britain (and the world) needs miles of extra cable to carry it. But a global shortage of components and skills means efforts to meet climate targets will go down to the wire
  • A general view of the Snow-covered city of Tromso, Northern Norway

    The alternatives
    ‘You can walk around in a T-shirt’: how Norway brought heat pumps in from the cold

    Device installed in two-thirds of households of country whose experience suggests switching to greener heating can be done
  • Colin Hines stands outside his house holding a placard for Homeowners Energy Action Trial

    Heat pumps tempt Twickenham residents – if the house is ready for one

    In one well-to-do London street, eagerness to make the shift from boilers is dampened by worries about disruption and hidden costs

October 2023

  • A solar plant in Bhaloji village, northern India

    Global electricity grid must be upgraded urgently to hit climate goals, says IEA

  • A Dogger Bank wind turbine

    World’s largest offshore windfarm project starts powering UK grid

September 2023

  • A woman clears snow from her car

    How will Europe weather a second winter without gas from Russia?

    EU states have worked hard to secure supplies and storage – while the UK seems just to be hoping it stays mild

August 2023

  • Lord Callanan (lecuts a green ribbon to open Ideal Heating’s new training centre

    Major UK gas boiler maker to start electric heat pump production in Hull

  • Rishi Sunak at the Shell plant in Peterhead on 31 July.

    Rishi Sunak came to Scotland offering more North Sea drilling and carbon capture. We reject both

    Mary Church

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?
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