TAG: Offshore wind
German government backtracks on tax hikes for farmers following protests
BERLIN — Germany's three-party ruling coalition on Thursday partly backed down from a proposal to cu...
8 months ago
UK Labour’s secret love: The oil and gas industry
LONDON — It was an unlikely stage for a political love-in.Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer and Ed Mi...
8 months ago
With Theresa May’s exit, UK Conservatives face green leadership vacuum
LONDON — Former Prime Minister Theresa May's announcement that she'll leave Westminster at the election creates a vacancy for a climate leader at the top of the Conservative Party. Nobody is in a rush to apply.The Tories have had a rocky relationship with...
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
Fossil fuel giant Norway pitches itself as Europe’s ideal green partner
HANNOVER, Germany — In world politics, just as in life, some partners are more attractive than others. In its bid to diversify away from China in the race for green technologies and raw materials — all while guaranteeing a stable energy supply — the Europ...
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
EU and UK eye new era of green ties as Britain’s Labour takes power
BRUSSELS — There’s a new green dawn rising across the Channel.A sweeping election win for Britain’s center-left Labour party is raising fresh hopes of increased energy and climate cooperation with the European Union after four years of post-Brexit deadloc...
2 months ago
How Brexit’s fallout doomed climate action in Northern Ireland
ANTRIM HILLS, Northern Ireland — Nestled away in Northern Ireland’s sprawling Antrim Hills, a wind turbine towers over a beef farm. Its sweeping blades generate all the energy the farm needs, and send excess electricity back to the power grid, where it is...
2 months ago
How Ed Miliband became Britain’s most divisive government minister
LONDON — Six weeks on from Labour’s resounding election victory, no one in Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has moved quite as quickly as Ed Miliband. A former (failed) Labour leader, who critics deemed too left-wing and awkward to win over the British public, Mil...
2 months ago
The UK is backing away from oil
LONDON — North Sea oil and gas fields used to be a cash cow for the U.K. But now the government is gearing up for a future without drilling.Labour swept into power at the general election with pledges to shift away from fossil fuels to greener, cleaner en...
1 month ago
Keir Starmer channels his inner Boris Johnson
LONDON — Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson were the bitterest rivals. Yet it turns out they have one thing in common: a love for windmills bobbing in the ocean.Back in 2020, Johnson, then U.K. prime minister, conjured a patriotic vision of a green post-pande...
3 weeks ago
World fails first review of COP renewable energy goal
BRUSSELS — Reaching the landmark renewable energy targets agreed at last year’s global climate summit will remain a distant dream unless the world invests more than $30 trillion over the next six years. That’s the stark warning the International Renewable...
2 days ago