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Britain is going to get a lot more electricity storage as a result of recently announced plans for new batteries and pumped hydro.

Several European news outlets carried an article last week by a Belgian journalist about the poor performance of the world’s most important carbon capture site at Brevik in Norway, where Heidelberg Materials operates a large cement works.[1] Having promis…

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When wind and solar provide more than 55% of GB electricity, imports of power from other countries start to drop sharply.

The first winter storm of 2025 has just passed over the UK, providing huge amounts of wind-generated electricity.

The journalist Andrew Neil published an article on 27th August about offshore wind in the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper.

We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs.

If the government achieves its targets for renewable electricity capacity for 2030, will it meet its objective for virtually decarbonising the GB grid by that date?

Abstract This article takes data surrounding last week’s announcement of the first SMR farm in Ontario, Canada to assess whether this new approach to nuclear shows any signs of reducing costs below the level of larger reactors and renewable generators.

Last week the UK government effectively nationalised the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe on the north-east coast of England.

On 10th December of last year the UK government announced it had signed contracts for the support of the first two parts of the proposed carbon capture cluster in the north-east of England.[1] The projects to be funded are a new gas-fired power station wi…

The purpose of this note is to point out that the CO2 that will need to be captured to make synthetic fuels is only slightly less than the carbon dioxide emitted by burning the equivalent amounts of fossil oil or gas.

The energy transition is being held up by the slow rate of growth in electricity demand.

A yearly opinion survey carried out in many countries around the world looks at attitudes to climate change and to emissions reductions.[1] Paid for by the French utility EdF, the data collection is carried out by Ipsos.

Thames Water I spoke yesterday (Wednesday April 3rd) to Ruth Williams of Utility Week about the probable outcomes of the current debacle at Thames Water.

This week the UK government welcomed the first transatlantic flight by a commercial airliner using 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

Almost every week a new report quantifies the investment needs for part of British infrastructure.

Wholesale electricity prices are lower when the wind is blowing hard.