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A new study shows that relying on a carbon price - rather than renewable subsidies - to clean our power supply could prove far more costly for bill payers.
Tom Burke argues that the Treasury's little known Levy Control Framework and the rising cost of nuclear risks squeezing renewables out of the UK's energy mix.
Good Energy's Juliet Davenport makes the case for a more radical reform of our energy market and support small scale generation.
As part of our series on who's who government decision making on energy we look at Greg Barker. From oil and finance to huskies and carbon capture, it’s been a circuitous journey for the energy minister.
The debate on the UK's energy future is often framed as one between Nuclear, Wind and Gas - but other options exist. Here we examine Tidal power and ask why the UK has so far failed to develop a technology which was initially much hyped.
As the FT reports that proposed Chinese investment in UK nuclear has failed to materialise, Chatham House expert, Anthony Frogatt examines the prospects for UK nuclear build.
Biofuels have shown our habit of dealing with one resource problem - by creating another. The challenge for the coming decades is to understand the link between the resource problems we face. Energy - and energy prices - are at their heart.
This autumn, under the soporific title of Electricity Market Reform (EMR) the government is set to totally change the way the UK generates and pays for its electricity - maybe.
