Government puts forward its plan to tackle the energy crisis

New prime minister Liz Truss has this morning unveiled the government’s plans to tackle the energy price crisis that is afflicting the United Kingdom.  Truss laid out her proposals as she opened a debate on UK Energy Costs in the House of Commons. At the centre of the government’s package is an ‘energy price guarantee’.  […]

Fracking back on the table as UK energy security fears grow

Fracking could return to the UK, after Downing Street admitted the ongoing situation in Ukraine meant the government would “look at all options” to improve British energy security.

The Nuclear Option

“If we want to be zero carbon, we can’t just rely on renewables.”

A nuclear-sized mistake? The debate over Sizewell C

The government are in talks with EDF over a new nuclear power station at Sizewell C.

Need-to-know: Energy White Paper

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As democratised solar energy takes off in California, Germany and Spain, the government has signed us up to decades of expensive, top-down nuclear power

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A French-owned electricity giant is to receive millions of pounds in public subsidy, in a controversial nuclear power station deal which will guarantee it doubles the current wholesale price for electricity.

‘World watching’ as nuclear talks approach climax

Drawn-out talks between the government and EDF Energy will have an impact on the future of nuclear energy around the world, an industry insider has told Politics.co.uk.

Households to pay more under coalition’s energy plans

Consumers will have to pay even more for their energy to fund the switch to renewable energy, under legislation to be published later.