TAG: Electricity
German budget crisis: Government reaches spending deal for 2024
Leaders of Germany's three-party ruling coalition agreed on a new draft budget for next year after w...
8 months ago
The EU got its first climate report card. It’s not good
Now’s not the time for Green Deal fatigue. In fact, Europe must accelerate its efforts. That’s the b...
8 months ago
Nuclear power to generate a quarter of electricity under UK plans
The U.K. government wants nuclear power to meet a quarter of electricity demand by 2050, under plans...
8 months ago
Czech industry minister vies to become EU’s next energy chief
Czech Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela, who played a key role in coordinating Europe’s respo...
8 months ago
EU mulls ‘Industrial’ twin for Green Deal as election pressure bites
BRUSSELS — Move over Green Deal, there’s a new buzzword in town — and just in time for the EU electi...
8 months ago
UK strikes energy deal with firm linked to Putin’s gas exports
LONDON — U.K. hospitals, town halls and government departments will be heated via a massive energy deal with a subsidiary of a firm still importing Russian gas to Europe — just days after U.K. ministers boasted they were “driving Putin out of the market.”...
6 months ago
Net zero meets the NIMBYs: Inside the battle for the UK’s biggest solar farm
EYNSHAM VILLAGE HALL, OXFORDSHIRE, England — On a winter afternoon, dozens of local residents pour into a drafty village hall, tucked away in the picturesque English countryside. They wear thick coats and skeptical frowns, and are here to fight plans to b...
6 months ago
‘Postcode lottery’ warning as UK energy chief weighs bills shake-up
LONDON — Claire Coutinho has promised to cut your energy bills. But she could end up hiking your neighbor’s in the process.The U.K. energy secretary is mulling sweeping reforms to the electricity market which, advocates say, could reduce bills by billions...
6 months ago
Claire Coutinho: The UK’s chancellor-in-the-wings?
LONDON — Late summer 2023. Claire Coutinho, a junior minister at the Department for Education and a rising star in the U.K. Conservative government, is enjoying a quiet morning at home when her phone rings.The caller has a message from one of Coutinho’s o...
6 months ago
UK energy bills could rise under government plans to fund nuclear
LONDON — The U.K. government is mulling plans which would hike household energy bills to help pay for a new nuclear energy plant.Ministers are considering tweaking the funding deal for Sizewell C, a proposed £20 billion nuclear plant in Suffolk, as they s...
6 months ago
Blame game erupts after energy tax talks collapse in EU Parliament
BRUSSELS — Efforts to pass a key climate law before this year’s European election have stalled after talks in the Parliament collapsed this past week. MEPs made a fresh attempt to find an agreement on the EU’s outdated Energy Taxation Directive earlier th...
6 months ago
Russian ‘scorched earth’ missile attack damages power plants in Ukraine
KYIV — Russian forces unleashed 99 missiles and drones in a fourth massive attack against Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the past 10 days. Three fossil fuel-fired power plants were seriously damaged, Ukrainian energy company DTEK said in a statement.“...
6 months ago
Putin bombards Ukraine but US tells Kyiv to stop targeting Russian oil
KYIV — Russia launched a huge barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, leaving several cities without electricity and damaging the Dnipro hydropower plant, Ukraine's biggest dam.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s...
6 months ago
EU’s power sector emissions plummet as renewables surge
BRUSSELS — The European Union saw carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial sites drop a record 15.5 percent last year, the bloc’s executive said. The main reason: Soaring renewable energy output caused fossil fuel-produced electricity to...
6 months ago