Energy

Proposals for one of Britain's biggest battery storage projects secures consent following changes to national planning policy

Reforms aim to tackle grid connection queue and incentivise developers to advance projects in a timely manner

Urgent investment and policy action is needed to avoid looming power grid constraints for large UK industrial sites, Aldersgate Group warns

IEA warns geopolitical stand-offs and intensifying trade wars pose a serious risk to critical mineral supply chains and could yet undermine the net zero transition

RenewableUK warns 5GW of offshore wind farm capacity is approaching the end of its scheduled life, but there is an opportunity to keep projects operating for longer

Salesforce, Hugging Face, Cohere, and Carnegie Mellon University launch public ratings for more than 200 commonly-used AI models

Proposed agreement aims to ensure only sustainable biomass used in Yorkshire power plant, but campaigners decry 'a dirty compromise with past failures'

Social Market Foundation calls for locational electricity pricing, planning reform, and major acceleration in nuclear development to enable rapid development of AI data centres

National Grid, Octopus Energy, Centrica, and NESO among firms offering more than 1,000 clean energy-related apprenticeships over the coming year

Emissions from agriculture exceed those from power generation for the first time, as data shows emissions are now at lowest level since the 1870s