Energy

Natural Gas

Nearly 30% Of British Gas Customers Still Missing Out on Energy Vouchers

Almost a fifth of SSE and ScottishPower customers said they hadn’t got their October or November voucher, according to a survey

Electric Vehicle Charging

Northern Ireland Sees Number of EV Chargers Decrease

This is while the rest of the UK has witnessed growth, data shows

Electric Car

UK EVs Smash New Record

Last month, battery electric vehicles took their largest monthly share of the new car market in 2022, according to a report

Energy Storage Battery

EDF Renewables UK Signs Contract With Wärtsilä for Energy Superhub

EDF Renewables UK has signed a contract with global technology company Wärtsilä for a new transmission-connected battery storage facility in Sundon, Bedfordsh…

Energy Storage Project

Balance Power Secures Planning Approval on St Austell Battery Storage Project

Balance Power has announced the approval of a 49.5 MW battery storage project in St Austell, Cornwall, the UK.

Denmark

Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy to Develop Large Scale Power-To-X Facility

Ørsted and Skovgaard Energy, a Danish renewable energy developer, have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop a power-to-X facility in Denmark with one o…

Oil Price

Oil Prices Drop to Below $80 for First Time Since January on Recession Fears

US Energy Information Administration expects global oil inventories to fall by 200,000 barrels per day in the first half of 2023.

Electric Car

How Rising Battery Prices Could Derail Arrival of Affordable EVs

Surging costs of materials including cobalt, nickel and lithium are driving increase.

Natural Gas

U.S. Pledges to Ramp up Supplies of Natural Gas to Britain as Biden and Sunak Seek to Cut off Russia

U.K. government says the new partnership will “drive work to reduce global dependence on Russian energy exports.”

SMR

Small Modular Reactors Aren’t Difficult Nuclear Waste Generators

Many experts believe small modular reactors (SMRs), which are generally classified as nuclear power reactors with an electrical output of 300 MW or less, offer …

Energy Transition

Australian Billionaire Forrest Snares CWP Renewables for Over $2.7 Bln

Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest's private firm Squadron Energy has acquired CWP Renewables for more than A$4 billion ($2.7 billion), three people f…

United Kingdom

Octopus Energy Takeover of Collapsed UK Rival Bulb Faces Legal Challenge

The British government’s decision to approve collapsed energy supplier Bulb’s acquisition by Octopus Energy faces a legal challenge from rival suppliers in ea…

Energy Investment

Losses May Force Japanese, S. Korean Utilities to Delay Green Investment

South Korean and Japanese power utilities are sustaining heavy losses, kept from passing rising generation costs on to customers and, according to analysts, for…

LNG

U.S., Britain Launch Energy Partnership to Boost Supplies

The United States and Britain announced on Wednesday an energy partnership aimed at sustaining a higher level of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Britain …

Energy Transition

G7 Makes New $15 Billion Offer to Vietnam to Cut Coal Use -Sources

The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations has made a new $15 billion offer to Vietnam to agree during a summit next week on funding to speed up its transit…