TAG: Electricity grid
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
Help us build wind farms to beat Russian bombs, Ukraine tells EU
Building more green energy plants will help Ukraine keep the lights on as Russia bombards the country's power system, the head of the country’s largest private energy firm told POLITICO. But Ukraine needs the EU to do that.In an interview, DTEK CEO Maksym...
6 months ago
Lithuania promises Soviet spare parts to Ukraine amid energy grid barrage
Lithuania's Ministry of Energy is planning to donate Soviet-era spare parts to Ukraine to help repair the national grid, it confirmed to POLITICO, a day after Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said he was in talks with the country to secure po...
6 months ago
Russia is bombing Ukraine into darkness — and leaving Europe short of power
Just outside Kyiv is a smoking crater where one of Ukraine's largest power plants used to be.The bombed-out ruin of the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant — the main electricity producer for millions of people — is a symbol of a devastating shift underway in U...
5 months ago
Labour will need ‘Herculean effort’ to hit green goals, says UK climate watchdog
LONDON — It will take a “Herculean effort” for Labour to reach its key net zero target of clean power by 2030 if it wins power, the U.K. government’s chief climate adviser has said.Chris Stark, who steps down as chief executive of the Climate Change Commi...
5 months ago
Putin’s fuel problem: How Ukraine is sapping Russia’s diesel and gasoline
A wave of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries deep inside Russia has left the Kremlin racing to defend its own territory while still waging war on its neighbor. But the attacks have also achieved the unthinkable — leaving the world’s largest petrost...
5 months ago
Labour’s climate plan: build, baby, build
RUNCORN, England — Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a man in a hurry.He arrived in No. 10 Downing Street with a promise that Labour would rapidly transform the U.K. energy system. Now, he has little choice but to crack on and try to make it happen.That mean...
2 months ago
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
LONDON — Early last year, U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer’s top green lieutenant traveled to Berlin. He was there to take notes on a German government full of climate vim. Starmer’s man Ed Miliband — then in opposition, now the U.K. energy secretary — enc...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
Keir Starmer’s worst nightmare? Becoming Margaret Thatcher
LONDON — When Keir Starmer wanted to woo Conservative voters, he knew just who to talk about.Penning a column in the Daily Telegraph, a favorite for Tory supporters, the center-left Labour leader heaped praise on Conservative titan Margaret Thatcher.The l...
2 months ago
Ukraine doubles down on Russian reactors in nuclear power push
Ukraine will push forward with controversial plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on aging Russian-made nuclear reactors despite growing opposition from lawmakers, the country's energy minister said, amid warnings of a major power crisis this wi...
1 month ago
Ukraine’s power sector in turmoil over claims of ‘political’ purge
The firing of the head of Ukraine's national electricity grid operator has sparked a rebellion at the top of the company, with two board members announcing their resignation in protest at the decision.In a statement issued Tuesday, Daniel Dobbeni and Pede...
1 month ago
UK energy policy: 20 people to lobby at Labour conference
Ministers newly installed in their Whitehall offices. Special advisers moving from opposition to government. The first Labour administration for 14 years — and one marked in its early weeks by a raft of energy and climate promises which could, at least in...
3 weeks ago
Power games over Ukraine’s electrical grid spark rule-of-law fears
KYIV — Ukraine’s devastated energy grid is fast becoming a focal point for European concerns about rule of law in Kyiv, with Western allies fearing a political power grab is under way that may imperil efforts to keep electricity flowing this winter.The fl...
3 weeks ago