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Scunthorpe and Port Talbot could lead a 'steel revival' enabled by electric arc furnaces and better use of British scrap metal -but time is running out to deliver green steel strategy, ECIU warns
A deal has reportedly been agreed to integrate the UK' and EU Emissions Trading Systems in a potential boost to the carbon market
Experts from Amazon, the BSI, CarbonZero, and Ergochair explore how carbon markets can move beyond the current 'inflection point' and become a 'boring' part of everyday business There are growing signs the global carbon market is approaching an "inflection point", as a combination of strengthened standards,…
New roadmap positions low-carbon ammonia as a strategic national asset that can enable food security, decarbonisation, and regional revitalisation
Partner Insight: As the UK looks to strengthen its industrial base, Madeline Lockyer, Markets Director at Carbon Shift, Equans UK & Ireland, explores why funding, flexibility and electrification need to be considered together. Equans will explore this further on 14th October in their webinar ‘The Future of Industrial…
The takeover will leave Octopus, British Gas and E.ON with 74% of the domestic energy market
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Equinor warns it may shun further investments in the UK if new oil and gas fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved.
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers John Healey is planning a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households in this month’s budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts that show bills rising by hundreds of…
The boss of a Norwegian oil company has sent a strong message to Labour as it awaits the final decision on the drilling sites
Competition watchdog clears takeover despite concerns that suppliers will have less incentive to lower bills Almost three-quarters of households in Great Britain are now served by just three energy suppliers, after E.ON Next completed a deal to buy Ovo Energy despite fresh concerns about competition in the energy…
Equinor chief says refusal to approve Rosebank and Jackdaw projects would be ‘major setback’
New funding to enable increased production of low carbon cement, which promises to cut emissions in half
Conservative Party leader vows to back renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuel drilling, as she sets out vision for wave of tax cuts and bonfire of planning and environmental regulations
Wood Mackenzie calculates four-hour battery storage projects are now less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in all major markets
'Stop', 'start' and 'reset' buttons are easily accessible to hackers for more than 8,000 systems
The sector predicts £1.5bn in investment and more than 5,000 jobs
Analysis shows hydrogen could generate widescale employment and help industrial decarbonisation with stronger policies
In the second article in a series on the Polish economy, we look at how the country is forging closer ties with its neighbours Two miles off the coast of Gdańsk, the white steel piles of Poland’s first offshore gas terminal rise from the slate-grey Baltic. Installed at a height eight metres above the waves, the…
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants Water companies in the UK made more than £340m in revenue last year by pouring billions of litres of industrial and commercial wastewater into sewage…
Battery boom is turning storage into core infrastructure, but investors today are also 'catching a falling knife' as spreads will narrow, Statkraft's Urbanke says
Multi-million-pound innovation programme to power research in clean chemicals and low carbon materials
Move designed to protect domestic manufacturers, but new import tariffs could push up prices for electric vehicles
Tens of thousands of sewage discharges reported outside legal timeframe in first eight months of the year, analysis finds
Interim boss confirmed in role on permanent basis, as he faces 'pivotal moment' for a sector facing its second fossil fuel shock in five years
The Competition and Markets Authority have given the two energy giants the go ahead to merge
Commissioner to consider levies as oil and gas businesses reap big profits from fallout of US-Israeli war on Iran
Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive divergent prices, with four-hour battery storage now less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in all 43 markets where both technologies were modeled. In the Middle…