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Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

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25/2/2026 News

Heathrow ramps up SAF ambition as UK government moves to de-risk supply

Heathrow Airport has unveiled an enhanced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) incentive scheme targeting 5.6% SAF use in 2026, as the UK government advances plans for a contracts-for-difference-style revenue certainty mechanism (RCM). Meanwhile, SkyNRG has begun construction of a flagship production plant in the Netherlands. Together, these announcements signal a tightening alignment between demand-side ambition at major hubs and emerging supply-side policy frameworks designed to de-risk investment in SAF capacity.

Onshore wind power

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14/8/2024 Comment / Angela Terry

How local energy benefits local people

Local energy projects deliver enormous benefits compared to commercial projects, writes Angela Terry MEI, environmental scientist and CEO of climate action charity One Home.

Energy transition

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13/8/2025 Comment / Steve Hodgson

Where are you on the energy transition spectrum?

We live in strange times, with dissent over how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and whether this is important at all – breaking out in the US and elsewhere. While others see an inevitable clean energy future arriving very soon. Steve Hodgson FEI, Editor-at-Large at New Energy World ponders.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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11/10/2023 Comment / Steve Hodgson

Net zero: one step forward, two steps back?

With new reports, whitepapers and press releases declaring contradictory messages around the energy transition on a daily basis, it can be difficult to know where we actually are in the global race to net zero. Here, New Energy World’s Editor-at-Large Steve Hodgson FEI, pulls together the latest authoritative research to consider this all-important question.

Banking, finance and investment

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27/11/2024 Comment / Michiel de Haan

Putting financial muscle behind renewable energy’s push into 2030

Renewable energy is competitive, but 2030 targets are challenging. Coordinated action, including continuing political support, will be essential if these are to be met, writes Michiel de Haan, Global Head of Energy Sector at Netherlands-based ING bank, which aims to play its part in accelerating the energy transition through financing.

Methane

22/11/2023 News

EU aims to regulate methane emissions in Europe and global supply chains

A new European Union (EU) regulation aims to reduce energy sector methane emissions in Europe and in its global supply chains, obliging the oil, gas and coal industry to properly measure, monitor, report, verify and reduce methane emissions.

Decarbonisation

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9/4/2025 Comment / Derk Swider,Eike Blume-Werry

Ensuring an affordable and effective energy transition in Europe

How much will Europe’s energy transition cost? Here, Derk Swider, Chief Economist, and Eike Blume-Werry, Manager of Energy Policy Analysis, both at E.ON, look at cost optimisation across supply and demand, and stress that early action will pay dividends.

Energy pricing

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21/5/2025 News

Zonal pricing is reportedly years away in the UK, while Europe is also suffering from grid woes

Industry experts warn that any move to zonal electricity pricing in the UK would unlikely to be achievable before 2030. Meanwhile, across the English Channel, outdated grid planning is threatening Europe’s shift to renewables.

Nuclear

19/11/2025 News

Wylfa confirmed as the UK’s first SMR site

The UK government’s ambition to lead a ‘new nuclear age’ took a major step forward last week with the announcement that Wylfa, on the coast of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) in North Wales, will host the UK’s first small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plant. While the news was welcomed by the UK energy sector, it also prompted a rare public rebuke from the US.

Hydrogen

5/7/2023 News

US and Japan will struggle to hit ambitious hydrogen targets

High production costs and lack of infrastructure will test recently published hydrogen strategies from both the US and Japan, according to the latest analysis from Wood Mackenzie. Meanwhile, an ambitious Gulf-to-Europe hydrogen pipeline is being proposed.

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