Germany may need to keep its fleet of mothballed coal-fired stations available for longer than expected as a drive to build new gas plants is severely behind schedule, grid operator Amprion GmbH warned. After Europe’s biggest economy shut its last nuclear plant in 2023, its power generation margin has shrunk. The coal plants are there to help...
The high cost of energy is perhaps the biggest challenge UK business faces in being globally competitive. In a world where Donald Trump’s energy policies are likely to lead to even more of a differential in costs between the UK and US, it is almost impossible to see how UK companies generally can be competitive.
Climate activists from Just Stop Oil painted over the grave of British naturalist Charles Darwin at London’s Westminster Abbey on Monday. Two activists entered Westminster Abbey – Britain’s site for royal weddings, coronations, burials and a major tourist attraction – on Monday morning and used spray chalk on Darwin’s grave, the campaign group said in...
Power prices jumped after the UK’s grid operator issued a market warning for this afternoon as declining wind output crimps supply just as plunging temperatures boost demand. The three-hour notice period is set to begin at 4 p.m. London time when there’s an insufficient buffer between predicted supply and demand, the National Energy System Operator...
Wind power was Britain’s largest source of electricity in 2024, topping gas-fired power plants for the first time, data showed on Tuesday. Britain has almost 15 gigawatts (GW) of installed offshore wind power and aims to quadruple that to 60 GW by 2030 as part of plans to largely decarbonise its power sector by then....
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday criticised the British government’s energy policy with a demand the country “open up” the ageing North Sea oil and gas basin and get rid of wind farms. The North Sea is one of the world’s oldest offshore oil and gas basins where production has steadily declined since the start of the...
Demand for electricity is rising so quickly in the United States that even Exxon Mobil, the country’s largest oil and gas company, is planning to get into the power business. Exxon is designing a massive natural-gas fueled plant meant to directly supply electricity to data centers. The company says the plant will be fitted with...
Do we want to deliver more energy to people to lift them out of poverty and help them adapt to climate change? Or do we want to restrict energy expansion, keep people in poverty, and hope to change the climate?
Wind power is the leading technology of the energy transition in the UK. It is the basis for the transition shift championed by the Starmer government—and it is failing because the grid operator is having to pay hundreds of millions to wind turbine operators to turn them off. The reason: there is no way to...
The town of Carrboro filed a lawsuit against Duke Energy on Wednesday, accusing the energy and utility giant of harmfully contributing to climate change and deceiving customers. Mayor Barbara Foushee and city council members from the town of 21,000 located immediately west of Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus pointed fingers...
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