Energy regulator Ofgem has today (23 August) revealed that the energy price cap for the October – December period will rise by 10% to £1,717 for a typical household in the UK. The rise follows a decrease in the past two price cap announcements. For Q2 2024, it was set at £1,690, before decreasing further
Rising block tariffs and national energy guarantee systems are almost unknown in Europe – but are flourishing elsewhere More than half of the world’s population lives under an energy system that its advocates say can tackle fuel poverty, improve crumbling housing stock and reduce energy demand. And to cap it off – when properly
You could ruin your appliances if you don’t act fast. The best-case scenario when your power goes out is that it's a quick outage, and you’re just minorly inconvenienced by resetting all the clocks in your house. However, if you’re in the path of a severe storm or hurricane, strong winds can knock down power lines
Extreme heat remains the story of summer across swathes of the northern hemisphere, with the most vulnerable—people who are young, elderly, disabled, poor, displaced, and war-torn—suffering disproportionately. Summer in the northern half of the globe had only just begun when the Middle East, Europe, and North America began counting their suffering, and their dead,
The King’s Speech this morning (17 July) established the Labour government’s commitment to a clean energy transition. The King’s Speech is written by the government and read at the State Opening of Parliament. Keir Starmer’s government has proposed a package of over 35 bills and draft bills for its first year in power, including establishing
Ed Miliband, the newly appointed secretary of state for Energy Security and Net Zero, has unveiled his priorities for the department, emphasising a transition towards clean energy and economic parity for the UK public. In his first message to the department’s staff, Miliband articulated his vision to transform the UK into a “clean energy superpower”
The new UK Labour government is set to lift the de-facto onshore wind ban in England, Rachel Reeves will declare in her first major speech as Chancellor. Reeves will make the pledge as part of an overhaul of the planning system that she will outline later today, according to the BBC. No large-scale onshore wind
The UK’s last remaining coal-fired power station has received its final shipment of coal ahead of shutting down later this year. Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station received the 1,650-tonne delivery, transported by GB Railfreight, which is expected to be the last before the station is decommissioned on September 30. According to Uniper, this amount of
Households across the UK are facing a fourth year of gas price increases, with annual energy bills set to rise by £600 from October, according to a report by the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Meanwhile, the price cap is set to save households an average of just £17 this summer, in stark contrast
Keir Starmer's proposals for a publicly-owned company called Great British Energy to invest in clean and renewable energy are a central plank of Labour’s green energy goal to almost entirely remove fossil fuels from UK electricity production by 2030, five years earlier than current government plans. But there are two criticisms of this green