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Energy transition

Close up of smart meter unit

10/9/2025 News

NESO offers new roadmap for UK energy digitalisation

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has published its first Energy Sector Digitalisation Plan as a roadmap to improvement of the sector’s public digital infrastructure. It was working in partnership with the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Ofgem, the Royal Academy of Engineering, industry stakeholders and others.

Batteries

Exterior view of coal power plant and electricity pylons

10/9/2025 News

India’s coal plants get battery boost to tackle solar peaks

India will test the installation of battery storage systems at some coal power plants, an advisor to the Power Ministry is reported to have said.

Hydrogen

Exterior view of Kristinestad power-to-X plant in Finland

10/9/2025 News

New EU platform to raise European green hydrogen production

In a bid to boost European energy security, diversification and decarbonisation, the European Commission (EC) has launched a Hydrogen Mechanism under the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform. The online platform is designed to help users source renewable and low-carbon green hydrogen and its derivatives (ammonia, methanol and sustainable aviation fuel) efficiently.

Geothermal

Map of UK showing heat pump and geothermal potential

10/9/2025 News

New UK geothermal energy map published

Potential opportunities for ‘little used’ geothermal energy are identified in a new UK geothermal energy information hub produced by the British Geological Survey and funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

Pumped storage plants

Aerial view over lakeside mountain, with mountain and a village houses in background

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10/9/2025 Feature / Selwyn Parker

Why pumped hydro is back in vogue for energy storage

In the ever more pressing pursuit of low-carbon energy storage in the era of intermittency, the venerable technology of pumped hydro is making a comeback. Although it’s already the most popular form of energy storage, accounting for over 90% of global capacity, most existing pumped hydro stations were built 40 or more years ago. But it is increasingly seen as an important standby technology when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. Selwyn Parker reports.

Law

Two head and shoulder photographs of men in suits and ties, set side by side

10/9/2025 Comment / Glenn R George,Benjamin Sokol

Dispute resolution revolution for the energy transition

The energy transition is changing the shape of the international energy business, with new renewable generation, carbon markets and climate change complexities. These changes are being matched by new methods of dispute resolution, argue Glenn R George and Benjamin Sokol, both with US-based Bates White Economic Consulting.

Research

Stick drawing of old-fashioned balancing scales with processes in the left hand dish and their unintended consequences in the right hand dish, which is sititng higher

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10/9/2025 Feature / Marcelle McManus

Research update on… lifecycle analysis

By evaluating full environmental impacts across the entire life cycle of decarbonised technologies and systems, life cycle assessment (LCA) enables industry, policymakers and technology developers to make informed, sustainable decisions that avoid unintended consequences, writes Marcelle McManus FEI, Director of the Sustainable Energy Systems Research Centre at the University of Bath. Below is an edited and abridged synthesis of UK research on the topic commissioned by the UK Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) over the last few years.

Diversity

Head and shoulders photo of Nick Turton

10/9/2025 Comment / Nick Turton

Energy leaders must redraw lines in the sand on LGBTQIA+ inclusion

The fifth Pride in Energy survey finds that charged social and political rhetoric is compounding the sector’s poor perception among LGBTQIA+ people and allies. It’s a difficult but salutary read for its leaders, says Pride in Energy committee member Nick Turton FEI.

Oil and gas

Aerial view of FPSO at sea

10/9/2025 News

Aberdeen oil and gas industry hits out at taxation at Offshore Europe

At last week’s oil and gas exhibition SPE Offshore Europe, in Aberdeen, UK offshore energy trade association OEUK blamed the UK government’s tax regime and the Energy Profits Levy (EPL) for accelerating the decline of offshore energy production, by deterring capital investment.

Natural gas

Isle of Grain terminal from above

2/9/2025 News

British Gas parent buys Isle of Grain LNG terminal for £1.5bn

UK energy company Centrica has bought Grain LNG from National Grid, in partnership with US energy infrastructure firm Energy Capital Partners.

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