Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

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13 09 2024 | 07:56

Wind and solar farms power Great Britain’s grid to greenest ever summer

Turbines at Burbo Bank in Liverpool Bay. Windfarms generated 7.04TWh in August, up more than 46% on the same month last year. Photograph: UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Great Britain’s…

13 09 2024 | 06:58

Sanctioned Russian oligarchs allowed to invest in UK North Sea oil producer

Harbour Energy bought Wintershall’s asset portfolio for $11.2bn (£8.5bn) in December 2023. Photograph: Garth Hannum The government faces growing criticism after a company backed by two sanctioned…

02 09 2024 | 06:57

Great Britain on track to generate record levels of summer solar power

Shotwick solar farm in Deeside, Wales. The government plans to triple the UK’s solar energy capacity by the end of the decade. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Great Britain is on track…

24 08 2024 | 06:55

Biomass power station produced four times emissions of UK coal plant, says report

Drax was responsible for 11.5m tonnes of CO2 last year, or nearly 3% of the UK’s total carbon emissions. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images The Drax power station was responsible…

24 08 2024 | 06:54

Electricity ‘superhighway’ between Scotland and England to go ahead

Causeymire windfarm in Caithness, Scotland. The Eastern Green Link cable will transmit electricity from Peterhead to the south to northern England. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Great…

14 08 2024 | 07:37

Investors push Glencore to scrap spin-off of heavily polluting coal division

Glencore’s Glendell open-cut coalmine in New South Wales. Glencore had planned to list the fossil fuel arm as a separate company on the NYSE. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian Glencore has…

05 08 2024 | 08:01

Shell’s half-year profits climb to £10.9bn after focusing on fossil fuels

Results take the company’s total profits for the first half of the year to $14bn and its share buybacks to $7bn. Photograph: Chris Helgren/Reuters Shell’s profits have climbed to $14bn (£10.9bn) for…

17 06 2024 | 06:39

No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds

The world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050 and governments should stop issuing new oil, gas and coal licences, according to a large study aimed…

27 05 2024 | 11:08

Large-scale nuclear power station planned for Anglesey in Wales

Ministers have earmarked north Wales as the site of a large-scale nuclear power plant, which is part of plans to resuscitate Britain’s nuclear power ambitions.