UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants set records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity from gas still went up.

As UK electricity prices skyrocketed last year, Drax Group Plc was in a position to blunt Britain’s pain. Since December 2016, a generator at the firm’s giant power plant had received £1.4 billion ($1 ...

The UK’s power sector can bring natural gas generation down to just 1% of electricity by 2030, which would avoid £93 billion ($99.6 billion) in gas costs in the same period, according to new modeling ...

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station - the UK's last coal-fired power station - will shut next week Since 1967, it has produced enough energy to make more than one billion cups of tea per day The power ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, June 27 (Reuters) - Power producers in the United Kingdom cut the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation by 16% over the first five months of 2024 from the same period in ...

GE Vernova Inc. invested $10.2 million in Xlinks First Ltd., the UK company planning a massive renewable power project in Morocco and a 4,000-kilometer (2,500 miles) undersea cable to deliver the ...

It happened at a terrible time – just before the Friday rush-hour. At 4:55pm on Friday, August 9, outages at two major UK power plants caused a sudden, major drop in the nation’s electricity supply.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

While politically the UK may soon be decoupled from the EU, it is busy building power grid links with mainland Europe. And some say it should build more, creating offshore wind hubs and network ...

The UK government could award oil and gas companies more than 100 new licenses to drill in the North Sea, as it looks for ways to bolster energy security amid a global supply crunch. Launched Friday, ...

In 1882, the world's first coal-fired public-use power station opened in London at 57 Holborn Viaduct—today a fairly nondescript location in the centre of London close to Blackfriars. On Friday, some ...