Energy

Campaign groups believe the payments will be too low to encourage significant numbers of people to install small scale renewable energy in their homes and communities

Local residents say they have been ‘insulted’ rather than ‘consulted’ over Government plans for new nuclear power stations

In an economic climate where village shops are closing, woodsman Ben Law has helped his village open a new shop with a difference

Immediate moratorium on all activity by oil and gas industries would help safeguard the local community and ecosystem as well as reduce potential carbon emissions

More than a quarter of the total US grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars last year, according to a new analysis

Banks are pulling out of the carbon-offsetting market after Copenhagen failed to reach agreement on emissions targets

Government spending watchdog says it is still not convinced new nuclear power stations will be built without public subsidies

Cars are evil, right? But what if they ran on hydrogen, did 300 miles per gallon, were leased rather than owned, and were produced under an open source business model...

None of the various technofixes on offer alter the fact that humanity has to learn to stop living on the last drops of cheap energy, and to start living within its means

Building offshore wind farms is great. Inaccurately quoting or massaging the figures that support them is not

Isle of Eigg pursuit of self-sufficiency through renewable energy projects has been rewarded with share of UK-wide award

Royal Dutch Shell group's dissident shareholders will press for a review of its tar sands project in Canada, at the oil firm's annual meeting in May

The Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has accused the Government of producing energy strategies that are 'carbon blind'

Will the latest announcement of nine proposals for offshore wind projects and a promised £100bn worth of investment lead to new jobs in the UK or elsewhere?

Europe's first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as nine countries formally draw up plans to link their clean energy projects around the North Sea