13th Jul 2022
Government does not plan to Extend windfall tax
The UK government have announced that they do not plan to extend windfall tax on electricity generators until there is a new prime minister in office. This decision comes as the Government have stated their unwillingness to make any big decisions until the next person joins 10 downing street. The government have said that electricity generators have made extraordinary profits due to supply...
8th Jul 2022
Government have missed out with net zero plans
Part of the Governments net zero plans has been to install more heat pumps. They have set a target to increase annual installation from 30,000 to 600,000 heat pumps by 2028. However, the government have missed out one crucial step in their plan, they haven’t considered the labour of installing the heat pumps. It has been estimated that around 27,000 heat pump engineers will be needed...
7th Jul 2022
Shell's green hydrogen plant in Europe
One of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers Shell has set out to build Europe’s biggest green hydrogen plant as European countries are keen to end their reliance on Russian energy imports. The energy company have taken the investment decision to build the plant “Holland Hydrogen l” which will soon become the biggest renewable hydrogen plant that will produce up...
5th Jul 2022
Solar panels are in demand as energy prices rise
As energy bills have risen across the UK over the past year, so have peoples interests in solar power. Renewable energy brands are seeing a higher interest in solar panels at the minute. They say this is mainly due to people understanding the environmental benefits of having solar panels as well as the cost of energy being so high. Many people have begun to realise that generating your own energy...
5th Jul 2022
The world is using more fossil fuels than ever
In a new renewable energy report, it has been proven that the share of wind and solar power hasn’t risen that much over the last decade. Even when renewables became more prominent with electricity last year, they did not meet the rise in demand. In the UK the sector that uses the most energy in the UK is the transport sector renewable energy provides less than 4% of energy for this system....
1st Jul 2022
The UK is not hitting decarbonisation goals
The Climate change committee (CCC) has just released a new report on the progress of the UK’s decarbonisation plans and weather they are at the required level to reach net zero by 2050. In the report it was highlighted that the current policies are not likely to deliver the net zero target. The CCC have made it clear that from this report that there are a lot of departments in this country...