decarbonisation

The UK government is prepared to use historic over-performance in emissions reductions to meet future targets, reports have suggested, in a move which is likely to attract considerable criticism.

Oil and gas major Shell has outlined an overhaul of its company strategy as it bids to take advantage of worldwide electrification.

The UK has now gone a fortnight without coal, underpinning what has been a landmark month for the country’s energy mix.

The government has formally approved renewables’ participation in future Capacity Market auctions, and unsubsidised projects could compete as early as next year.

A host of the country’s largest energy firms have backed the UK’s bid to host next year’s COP climate conference and called on the government for further support.

SSE’s thermal generation fleet lost more than £22 million in the company’s last financial year, leading the utility to laud its networks and renewables business units.

Today marks exactly one year since we launched Current±, a publication we very much intended to both demystify and accelerate the clean energy transition. Liam Stoker reflects on the year just gone, and teases plans for next 12 months.

Magnus Hall, chief executive at Vattenfall, has been appointed as the new president of European power trade body Eurelectric.