Top stories from Monday 29 June 2026
Lowering mandated targets for electric car sales could cost the Treasury billions of pounds a year in VAT receipts, while weakening investor confidence in the UK, BEAMA warns
Dr Aled Roberts of DeKiln explains how a new partnership is helping scale and commercialise the firm’s low carbon materials
Ofgem has provisionally selected 16 long-duration electricity storage (LDES) projects to move forward under its cap and floor support scheme.
David Whitehouse, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has today written to all 403 Labour MPs urging them to back an urgent policy reset to prioritise homegrown energy. The trade body representing almost 500 companies involved in the North Sea’s oil, gas and offshore wind energy industries, says the UK has suffered 50 years of industrial erosion, […]
Europe is building battery storage at a pace that looked impossible a few years ago. Yet the sector is overlooking a deadline that, from 2027, decides market access.
Recent headlines have fixated on ultra-fast EV chargers that can add hundreds of miles of range in the time it takes to refuel a gas car. Automakers are touting ever-faster charging speeds. Infrastructure providers are racing toward megawatt charging (regardless of whether or not today’s EVs can even manage it). ...
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Western outsourcing to build scale risks China’s increased control of critical supply chains, analysts warn
Prime Minister-in-waiting sets out plans for major devolution drive, local transition plans, and reform of essential utilities
Deal aims to ramp up investment in decarbonisation, sustainable housing, and cleaner transport networks
Kristian Gjerløv-Juel says last year’s investments will put Centrica Energy Trading in a stronger position in the coming years.
Energy bills are climbing again this week. A typical household now pays around £1,663 a year — that’s 46% more…
Energy prices to domestic and industrial consumers for all the major fuels, with international comparisons, for the first calendar quarter of 2026.
Storage facilities in the EU are not being refilled fast enough ahead of colder months
Energyminer has something much better than a rendering. Its Energyfish is a small floating hydrokinetic turbine, mostly underwater, anchored in a river current, sending power to shore through a cable and feeding a land-side power box for grid-compliant electricity. It is not a dam, not a conventional run-of-river hydro plant ...
New initiative aims to accelerate transition of the UK's three million hectares of arable farmland to regenerative agriculture standards