Tag: Renewable energy

An electric car has been linked to a fire on a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 vehicles in the North Sea which killed one person and forced others to jump overboard.

The wind industry has written to the Government threatening to abandon the U.K. unless subsidies are hugely ramped up, in a move that gives the lie to years of propaganda claiming falling costs.

The Net Zero ideologues running the U.K. have introduced a mass of contradictory electrification and renewable energy policies that won't work and will only ruin Britain, says Andrew Orlowski.

The Swedish Government has ditched its targets for “100% renewable energy” amid a shift back to nuclear power in the latest blow for the unreliable and inefficient technology.

Net Zero goals to turn the electricity system green risk the lights going off, MPs on the powerful Public Accounts Committee have warned, as they suggest that Government policy should be for "people not to have cars".

Does Labour leader Keir Starmer understand ‘energy security'? He has promised more onshore wind power and a state-owned green energy giant – but a ban on all new oil and gas drilling.

Britain was forced to burn coal to generate electricity again this week after solar panel generation failed because it was too sunny. But the coal plant is due to be closed next year. What will we do then?

Twice as many people are dying from winter cold than summer heat, yet the Government is impoverishing pensioners with sky-high fuel bills to subsidise renewables, says Ian Price.

Gripped by a culture of climate catastrophism, society seems hell-bent on ripping up the energy system that is the foundation of our civilisation with only the vaguest idea of what might replace it, says Andrew Montford.

The deeply destructive energy policies being implemented in Germany originate in a band of groupthinking green activists who over decades have secured an iron grip on the political levers.