Amber Rudd has announced that increased subsidies will be offered to electricity suppliers from the capacity market auction, and penalties for those providers…
Continue ReadingThe head if the UK’s largest energy lobbying group, Energy UK, has called for Britain to take lessons from Germany’s Energiewende [energy transition]…
Continue ReadingUS: Cutting Emissions Could Save 175,000 Lives by 2030
Written by Danny Lord in Climate Change Government Policy
A paper published by Duke University in North Carolina has claimed that if the US work on dramatically reducing their carbon emissions generally…
Continue ReadingThe latest figures from Ofgem showed that over the course of 2015, more than 6 million households across the UK switched to a…
Continue ReadingCentrica owned energy giant British Gas reported a 31% increase in 2015, bringing the total to £574 million for the year, compared to…
Continue ReadingAmid mounting pressure to reach a decision regarding investment for its controversial Hinkley Point nuclear reactor, French energy giant EDF has announced that…
Continue ReadingIn order to redress the imbalance left behind by the gradual closure of Britain’s coal, gas and oil power stations, the government has…
Continue ReadingEDF and British Gas have both now joined the rest of the Big Six in reducing the price of gas on their standard…
Continue ReadingAn energy tariff offered by E.ON in partnership with charity Age UK is to be suspended following claims made by the Sun newspaper…
Continue ReadingCuadrilla Claims Friends of the Earth ‘Misled’ Regulator
Written by Danny Lord in Climate Change Government Policy
The decision to refuse fracking companies permission to drill in areas of Lancashire has been described by the council as “democracy in action”…
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