The world’s demand for oil is growing at its slowest pace since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, causing global market prices to slump to three year-lows, the International Energy Agency has said…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.