Transatlantic battle for green subsidies

Global leaders at COP29 were under a huge amount of pressure going into talks this week following the UN Secretary General public voicing his concerns over the state of negotiations. Criticisms o...

22 Nov 202434min

At the start of November, the Swedish government announced that it was vetoing plans for 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea due to security concerns. The announcement was met with much criticism...

15 Nov 202431min

It has been a big week for global politics. On the same day that the United States voted Donald Trump as their 47th President, the German coalition government broke down after a budget row over cuttin...

8 Nov 202437min

This week, the UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her budget – the first from a Labour government in 14 years. Whilst there were no big surprises for the energy sector, the budget still raised some...

1 Nov 202431min

It is over a year since Hamas attacked Israel, which triggered a wider conflict in the Middle East; the territory that produces around a third of the world’s oil. And much of its gas. Yet, despite t...

25 Okt 202429min

The last two years of the conflict in Ukraine, and the rise in malicious cyberattacks, has raised concerns security risks over Europe’s plans to be more self-sustainable in energy supply. Now, as coun...

17 Okt 202436min

It's clear for many that Europe needs to ramp up battery energy storage capacity over the next decade to help decarbonise the economy. But where does this leave battery developers and manufacturers wh...

10 Okt 202434min

This week marked a historic milestone for the UK as it shut down the last remaining coal-fired power station in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire. Once the backbone of the country’s energy supply, co...

3 Okt 202411min