A technology designed to reduce the effect of fossil fuels on the climate has received £1 bln in subsidies and has nothing to show for it.
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The Chancellor has to face some hard scrutiny of a deal which would look like a communist coup under a Labour PM.
The key drivers for energy in the 21st century are managing climate change, shifting community concerns, and radical technology change.
The future of two key energy policies – the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Renewable Fuel Standard – will decide whether bioenergy will continue to grow in US or not.
His energy manifesto doesn’t present ‘old solutions to old problems’ but provocative responses to increasingly urgent challenges.
What happens to energy policy when democracy takes a back seat – and no one mentions the war.
After all the jubilation about the president’s plan, it’s time for a reality check.
Poor Americans suffer disproportionately from higher energy prices. Energy policies should fund innovation to make low-carbon energy cheaper.
In the long run a shift from renewables to fossil fuels will make it harder to reach emissions targets and will harm the UK’s international standing.
Personalised energy services would stop everyone getting ripped off.
There’s no point promoting renewable technology if all the power still resides with fossil fuel firms.
The proposed Energy Bill ends wind power subsidies and toughens planning regulations. But it’s not all bad news for the industry.
Our experts review the evidence behind the Green Party’s big ticket policies.
The world needs new energy technologies to meet global demand and slow emissions. Government plays an outside role in energy so what policies work best for innovation?
Amid the 14,000-plus submissions to the commission tasked with producing a set of proposals for handing more powers to Scotland, some have proposed devolving some control of energy. Energy was one of the…
The European Union might just have made a historically important statement of intent, aimed at laying the foundations to boost investment in the EU as a driver of full recovery and long-term growth. That’s…
What is a healthy room temperature? On releasing its Cold Weather Plan for 2014, Public Health England has recently revised its recommended minimum levels to keep in good health. No longer, they say, do…
Winter is coming. And the UK has a real chance of [brownouts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(electricity) or even blackouts from lack of power. The long predicted capacity crunch in electric power…
The Australian Financial Review recently trumpeted America’s “re-emergence as a world oil power”. It is an accomplishment four decades in the making and its success is still under debate. Energy security…
Next week, Brisbane hosts the final meeting of the G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group before the main G20 summit in November. Government officials and energy experts from 20 of the most powerful countries…
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