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Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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29/1/2025 Comment / Peter Godfrey

2025: A transformative year for ASEAN collaboration?

I’m an optimist! Despite numerous calls for greater regional cohesiveness in the past, ASEAN (the Association of South East Asian Nations) stands on the cusp of a transformative era. With a new President in Indonesia championing greater international engagement and Malaysia taking the ASEAN Chairmanship, 2025 presents a strategic opportunity to advance regional energy security and sustainable growth. So writes Peter Godfrey FEI, the Energy Institute’s Managing Director – Asia Pacific.

Oil and gas

30/7/2025 Comment / David Watson

Deeper waters, shallower gains – why Rosebank and Jackdaw will not secure Britain’s energy future

The UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves are in rapid decline and the opening of new fields will make hardly any difference to UK energy supplies or bills, or industry jobs. Their weak economic case is outweighed by the potential climate impact, argues David Watson, Principal at energy and utilities advisor the BFY Group.

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.

Tidal Power

1/6/2022 Comment / Stuart Murphy

UK government forgetting a key player - tidal range energy

In the transition of our energy system to net zero emissions, wind and solar power provide a growing proportion of the UK’s energy needs, but they are hampered by intermittency issues, leading the government to rely on fossil fuels to provide baseload power. The solution to this problem lies in the seas around Britain, explains tidal power entrepreneur Stuart Murphy, founder of TPGen24.

Energy policy

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt presenting Autumn Statement in Parliament

29/11/2023 News

Full speed ahead for UK grid connection and clean tech – but what’s really new?

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement was fairly-well received across the energy sector, with promise to reform the grid connection process and accelerate connection times; along with a £960mn Green Industries Growth Accelerator to fund carbon, capture use and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and wind projects; and a raft of other initiatives which aim to encourage investment in more energy efficient and low-carbon technologies.

Energy from waste

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24/7/2024 Comment / Andy Jones

Waste not want not – how Europe could better treat its refuse

Waste-derived fuel (WDF) can play an important part in the European Union’s (EU) transition towards a circular economy and an energy-secure, net-zero society – particularly if an integrated tax regime for waste was in place, writes Andy Jones, Managing Director at Totus Environmental and Chair of the RDF Industry Group.

Offshore wind

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.

Climate change

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5/3/2025 News

CCC calls for an 87% cut in UK GHG emissions by 2040

The UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) has published its Seventh Carbon Budget, advising an 87% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040, compared to 1990 levels, if the UK government is to achieve its net zero by 2050 ambition. Reactions from trade associations and Greenpeace are also included in this round-up.

Hydrogen

4/10/2023 News

Hydrogen exports could shift to ammonia production by 2035 despite trade uncertainties

As hydrogen gains prominence in the global pursuit of decarbonisation and energy security, many major infrastructure projects are considering its transportation in the form of ammonia, suggests a new report. Meanwhile, industry bodies are calling for government support for the sector, as the UK’s largest hydrogen production plant enters front-end engineering and design.

Grid management

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4/12/2024 Comment / Joanna Carter

The urgent need to expand the UK’s energy grid for net zero

Building a grid able to distribute net zero electricity in the UK by 2030 is possible, but will require enormous cooperation by the relevant stakeholders, argues Joanna Carter, Head of Electricity Connections at EDF Renewables.

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