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Energy policy

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss outside No 10 Downing Street

14/9/2022 News

New UK Prime Minister unveils new energy bills support package

Just days after being announced as the new UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss set out a package to support people and businesses with their energy bills, as well as action that aims to tackle the root causes of the issues in the UK energy market through increased supply.

Hydrogen

Exterior view of Baytown refining and petrochemical complex

21/5/2025 News

ExxonMobil to supply ammonia for injection in Japanese coal-fired power plant

ExxonMobil is to supply low-carbon ammonia to Marubeni for Japan’s Kobe power plant under a new offtake deal. Marubeni will also invest in ExxonMobil’s planned Baytown hydrogen and ammonia hub. The move supports Japan’s wider hydrogen strategy, as outlined in a new report, which highlights the country’s push to cut carbon emissions and decarbonise power and hard-to-abate sectors through ammonia and low-carbon hydrogen imports.

Energy prices

Close up of gas ring alight

5/3/2025 News

UK government plans to extend energy support as household costs continue to rise

Ofgem has announced a 6.4% increase in the energy price cap from April to June 2025. In response, the UK government is looking to expand its Warm Home Discount, to help more households facing financial difficulties to meet rising energy costs. Meanwhile, the government’s independent infrastructure advisor is calling for a ‘step change’ in grid investment.

Power purchase agreements

Head and shoulders photo of Steve Hodgson, Editor-at-large, New Energy World

1/5/2024 Comment / Steve Hodgson

More renewable energy schemes now rely on corporate purchase agreements

Not all renewable energy projects are supported or incentivised by governments – an increasing number now depend on corporate customers to get built, as New Energy World Editor-at-large Steve Hodgson FEI reports.

Forecasting

Head and shoulders photo of Gaurav Gharde, standing in front of a modern building and arches of an older building, both faded out

22/10/2025 Comment / Gaurav Gharde

The promise and the proof: insights from 20 years of UK energy scenarios

What can we learn from looking again at 20-year-old energy forecasts? History tells us that some established demand side measures worked, while some new technologies did not. Here, Gaurav Gharde, Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, provides some hard-won lessons to inform COP30.

Energy markets

Clean energy compilation - solar panels, crops in a field, wind turbine and electricity pylon

1/2/2023 News

BP predicts carbon emissions could fall more steeply than estimated previously

The global carbon budget is running out, and oil and gas investment will be needed for another 30 years, are these are two key findings in BP’s latest Energy Outlook report.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

Head and shoulders photo of Professor Paul de Leeuw,, with trees and grass behind him

19/6/2024 Comment / Paul de Leeuw

Delivering our energy future – pathways to a ‘just and fair’ transition

Transforming the North Sea to a multi-energy basin is certainly possible, but action on employment and skills retention is needed now if the transition is to be in any way just or fair, argues Professor Paul de Leeuw, Director, Energy Transition Institute, Robert Gordon University.

Offshore wind

Close up of one offshore wind turbine at sunset, others in background

3/7/2024 News

European renewables held back by problems at the bidding and planning stages

Aspects of the bidding process in recent European offshore wind auctions, and in onshore UK planning arrangements, have been criticised in separate reports.

Energy markets

Row of solar panels with three wind turbines behind

2/4/2025 News

Record expansion in renewables helped meet a surge in global energy demand in 2024

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest global energy review highlights a surge in global energy demand in 2024, primarily driven by increased electricity consumption. Renewables and natural gas met most of the demand, with solar and wind power generation setting new records. Meanwhile, recent analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) also shows record renewable capacity expansion last year. However, it warns that additions fell short of what is needed to align with the global goal to triple installed renewable energy capacity by 2030.

People and behaviour

Head and shoulders photo of Nick Turton, EI External Affairs Director

21/9/2022 Comment / Nick Turton

Relearning our relationship with energy can’t be left to chance, there’s too much at stake

With the UK Cabinet said to be split over whether government should be advising households to cut their energy use, the EI’s External Affairs Director Nick Turton FEI argues that a nationwide public information and behaviour change campaign is a crucial piece of the response to the current crisis and for net zero.

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