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However costs of battery storage, solar and wind are all still set to fall by 2035 despite last year's price flux, according to BloombergNEF

Vallourec has signed a memorandum of understanding with Baker Hughes aimed squarely at the compression storage interface, a segment where efficiency losses and capital intensity frequently undermine project bankability.

The transition to electric and digital vehicles is also a race, and right now the UK is in danger of losing ground, writes Palmer Energy's Andy Palmer

Now in its 17th year, BNEF’s annual Levelized Cost of Electricity report remains the industry benchmark for the cost of electricity generation.

Wind giant says 2021 reintegration of MHI Vestas overtook original decarbonisation target, but insists ambition remains high and biggest prize is in supply chain

Wind giant says 2021 reintegration of MHI Vestas overtook original decarbonisation target, but insists ambition remains high and biggest prize is in supply chain

Indian minister cites UK’s success getting offshore wind farms built as he identifies ‘three pillars’ of new pact

Consultancy’s prediction comes after Rachel Reeves said green subsidy costs would be removed from domestic bills Household energy costs in Great Britain are expected to tumble by an average of £117 a year from April after Rachel Reeves announced in November’s budget that the cost of green subsidies would be removed from domestic bills. The government’s quarterly cap on energy bills is forecast to fall after the chancellor’s decision to shift the levies used to support renewable energy projects into general taxation, and scrap a bill payer-funded energy efficiency scheme, according to Cornwall Insight, a leading energy consultancy. Continue reading...

In 1999, Heather Preen contracted E coli on the beach. Two weeks later she died. Now, as a new Channel 4 show dramatises the scandal, her mother, Julie Maughan, explains why she is still looking for someone to take responsibility When Julie Maughan was invited to help with a factual drama that would focus on the illegal dumping of raw sewage by water companies, she had to think hard. In some ways, it felt 25 years too late. In 1999, Maughan’s eight-year-old daughter, Heather Preen, had contracted the pathogen E coli O157 on a Devon beach and died within a fortnight. Maughan’s marriage hadn’t survived the grief – she separated from Heather’s father, Mark Preen, a builder, who later took his own life. “I’ve always said it was like a bomb had gone off under our family,” says Maughan. “This little girl, just playing, doing her nutty stuff on an English beach. And that was the price.” Yet there had been no outrage, few questions raised and no clear answers. “Why weren’t people looking into this? It felt as if Heather didn’t matter. Over time, it felt as if she’d been forgotten.” All these years later, Maughan wasn’t sure if she could revisit it. “I didn’t know if I could go back into that world,” she says. “But I’m glad I have.” The result, Dirty Business, a three-part Channel 4 factual drama, is aiming to spark the same anger over pollution that ITV’s Mr Bates Vs the Post Office did for the Horizon scandal. Jumping between timelines, using actors as well as “real people” and with actual footage of scummy rivers and beaches dotted with toilet paper, sanitary towels and dead fish, it shows how raw sewage dumps have become standard policy for England’s water companies. Jason Watkins and David Thewlis play “sewage sleuths” Peter Hammond and Ash Smith, Cotswolds neighbours who, over time, watched their local river turn from clear and teeming with nature to dense grey and devoid of life. Hammond is a retired professor of computational biology, Smith a retired detective, and together, they used hidden cameras, freedom of information requests and AI models to uncover sewage dumps on an industrial scale. Continue reading...

The emissions trading system has been a success so far but the next phase will be harder to pull off

Logistics firm said it hopes to halve its electricity costs with integrated solar, battery, and EV charging system delivered by SolarEdge at flagship site

Partnerships between land custodians and the private sector can provide credible routes for investment in nature recovery, write National Parks Partnership CEO Catherine Hawkins and National Landscapes Association CEO John Watkins

Companies launch 'first' globally applicable soil microbial metric designed for board‑level reporting on ecosystem health

We must move beyond thinking solely in terms of efficiency and decarbonisation to prioritise resilience

”The main reason is that it takes longer to mature and build projects than we previously thought,” says Magnus Frantzen Eidsvold from Equinor.