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UK energy

  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Doubts grow over pace of Britain’s clean power push Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, growing fears of steel imports ‘flooding’ the country

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  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Centrica strikes £20bn deal to import gas from Norway until 2035

    Long-term agreement with Equinor will meet 9% of UK’s annual demand

    Workers at a natural gas production facility
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    UK ministers consider electricity bill discounts for heat pump owners

    Households replacing gas boilers may not have to pay green levies on power costs

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  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    Peers group backs UK power market shake-up

    Supporters say ‘zonal pricing’ reforms needed to deal with national grid constraints

    The sun sets behind wind turbines in East Sussex
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    Sizewell C nuclear project to get go-ahead during Anglo-French summit

    UK ministers hope to sign up private sector investors for new Suffolk power plant later this month

    Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Renewable energy
    Welsh hydropower plant pitches for new role in renewables era

    Plan to revamp its six turbines could help UK move to cleaner energy

    Dinorwig power station in north Wales
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Lex
    UK’s clean energy goals are reassuringly unattainable Premium content

    Ambition, at the very least, spurs action

    Aerial view of an onshore wind farm in Biggleswade, UK, showing several large wind turbines scattered across expansive green fields
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    UK household energy bills to fall after Ofgem lowers price cap 7%

    Reduction for July to September would see typical households pay £1,720 a year

    A person is holding a smart energy meter displaying energy usage and cost, alongside a smart thermostat
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Shell PLC
    Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy

    Special resolution calling for more detail on LNG business wins 20% backing

    Wael Sawan, the CEO of Shell,
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Output in UK energy-intensive industries hits 35-year low

    High electricity prices undermining competitiveness of British businesses, official figures show

    An electric arc furnace in Sheffield
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    UK public policy
    Thousands of jobs at risk if UK cuts home insulation fund, businesses warn

    More than 50 companies and trade bodies fear government will water down pre-election promise to boost spending

    A worker lays out glass wool insulation in the roof of a house
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    FT SeriesPowering Britain
    Can Britain’s neighbours help it keep the lights on?

    Greater interconnection should boost system’s resilience but also exposes electricity to political tensions

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  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    John Gapper
    Labour needs to bend its promise of clean energy

    The government should not waste money by rushing to hit a 2030 deadline for net zero power

    Ed Miliband
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    FT SeriesPowering Britain
    Can Britons be persuaded to switch off when the wind doesn’t blow?

    New tariffs push households and businesses to adjust demand to fit supply in bid to decarbonise electricity system

    Montage including photos of a car and a washing machine
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    FT SeriesPowering Britain
    Powering Britain: radical plan to shake up electricity market faces crunch time

    After months of bitter debate, Ed Miliband is under pressure to decide on ‘zonal pricing’ policy

    Montage shows woman holding electricity meter against a backdrop of glowing wind turbines
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Iberdrola secures £600mn loan from UK state fund to upgrade power grid

    National Wealth Fund helps finance plan to develop electricity network between Scotland and England

    The logo of Spanish utilities company Iberdrola
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    UK industrial strategy
    Industrial strategy aims to tackle UK’s sky-high energy costs

    Shielding industry from inflated prices is centrepiece of next month’s announcement

    Employees ‘burn’ a steel component in the foundary section of Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd. in Sheffield, U.K
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    UK government spending
    Ministers look at trimming back home insulation pledge

    Treasury declines to say whether it will stick to Labour’s £6.6bn spending commitment

    Cavity wall insulation being installed in a home in Kirklees, UK
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    UK politics
    Starmer defends UK net zero policy after criticism from Blair

    Former Labour prime minister highlighted need for reset of ‘irrational’ debate over climate change

    Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons, flanked by Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Zonal pricing could undermine Scottish energy sector, warns Forbes

    Deputy first minister says uncertainty triggered by electricity market reforms could deter investment

    Kate Forbes, deputy first minister of Scotland
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Moral Money
    The UK’s underwhelming response to solar supply chain fears Premium content

    The government’s solar panel U-turn underscores the difficulty of building a supply chain untainted by abuses

    Ed Miliband is seen attending the China-UK Energy Dialogue in Beijing, seated at a table with both British and Chinese flags
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    LexOil & Gas industry
    The UK North Sea’s biggest foe is indecision

    The easiest way to secure any kind of future is to give producers confidence that decisions will have some longevity

    An oil rig off the North Sea coast
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Nuclear energy
    Scottish nuclear plant emptied of fuel as UK winds down ageing gas-cooled reactors

    First of seven plants to be decommissioned took just three years but it will take almost a century to eradicate radiation from land and buildings

    Hunterston B, interiors of the Charge Hall
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    GB Energy
    Miliband in solar panel U-turn as ministers bow to Chinese slavery fears

    State-owned GB Energy will be restricted from importing equipment that may have been made with forced labour

    Ed Miliband visits Tiln Farm Solar Park
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Sustainability30 min
    Are we on the brink of a nuclear revival? | FT Film

    Why small nuclear power stations could be a huge threat to renewable energy

    When Tech Goes Nuclear - FT Film
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