The UK government must increase incentives for renewable energy production, in order to further investment over the next ten years, the government's global-warming adviser has said.
The United Kingdom and Canada have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which will strengthen the relationship between the two countries on developing nuclear energy.
Britain's Conservative government will end onshore wind farm subsidies in April 2016, a year earlier than set out in the previous Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition agreement.
RWE has officially opened the Gwynt y Mor wind farm in North Wales. The project, financed with a £2 billion ($3.18 billion) investment by Stadtwerke Munchen and Siemens, has seen the development of 160 turbines some 13 km into the Liverpool Bay.
The European Commission and the Baltic sea region countries have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will modernise and strengthen the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP).
An Australian lawmaker who holds the balance of power in the upper house of New South Wales (NSW) has given the go-ahead to privatise the state’s electricity grid – under the proviso that no employee loses their job for five years.
The chief executives of BG Group, BP, Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil and France’s Total have collectively urged governments around the world to introduce a pricing system for carbon emissions, in order to reduce uncertainty and encourage cost-effective ways of reducing carbon emissions.