​Soaring renewables required under the UK’s binding climate change targets will send wholesale power prices crashing and fundamentally alter the workings of the power sector towards wider use of ‘capacity contracts’.

Sir John Armitt, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), has urged the government to embrace renewables in its forthcoming National Infrastructure Strategy (NIS).

Policy costs are not to blame for electricity price hikes in the UK, a study by the UK Energy Research Council has concluded.

​Southwark Council is launching a network of 50 lamppost electric vehicle charge points after partnering with char.gy to deliver installations in two areas of the borough.

A project incorporating the development of a local, smart energy system for both businesses and consumers surrounding Ellesmere Port in Cheshire has received backing from Innovate UK.

Edinburgh-based tidal power specialist Nova has claimed a world first in pairing Tesla batteries with its own tidal energy turbines in Scotland, in a project supported by government funding.

​EDF Energy is to offer its business customers vehicle-to-grid (V2G) chargers, as well as using them on its own sites, after partnering with charger supplier and technology developer Nuvve.

Yesterday’s budget has received a largely mixed response, with the government’s commitment to a provisional carbon price in the result of a no-deal Brexit unable to offset those miffed at a lack of concrete low carbon commitments. Here’s what the UK’s clean sectors have had to say.

The government has said it would put a carbon emissions tax in place to replace the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in the result of a no-deal Brexit, but renewables have been omitted from yet another Budget.

​Almost a third of consumers shift their electricity consumption out of peak times if given the right tools to engage in their usage patterns according to the findings of an energy time of use tariff study.