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19th Mar 2013
Damian Kahya
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The Secretary of State, Ed Davey, has granted planning permission for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley in Somerset - we answer the key questions.

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17th Mar 2013
Dr Keith MacLean
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Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan made a media splash last month when he warned that the UK’s electricity supply margins were becoming "uncomfortably tight", were "on a rollercoaster" and were heading "downhill fast".

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13th Mar 2013
Alex Trevena
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This month Energy watchdog chief, Alistair Buchanan did a brilliant job at highlighting the current government energy strategy; 'we are going to lean heavily on gas’ and gas prices will unavoidably go up.

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12th Mar 2013
Lawrence Carter
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Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the sea). This is what wind manufacturer Dong says will help bring the cost of offshore wind down to below that of new gas-fired power stations (the size of the blades, not Bolt’s premature demise).

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11th Mar 2013
Antony Froggatt
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Maximum liability is £140m in the UK, but Fukushima clean-up and compensation costs are running to tens of billions – and the state is footing the bill

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4th Mar 2013
Alex Trevena

The long term sustainability of our energy infrastructure depends on intelligent and forward looking innovation.. The current scheme, however,   goes against one of the golden rules of sustainability, reduce, reuse, recycle.

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3rd Mar 2013
Damian Kahya
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As UK coal use increases significantly and the chair of the government’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC), Conservative peer Lord Debden (aka John Gummer) calls for more investment into shale gas, is fracking in the UK part of the answer to tackling climate change?

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28th Feb 2013
Charlie Kronick

In May 2012, Greenpeace published Out in the Cold which analysed in depth the financial risks faced by Shell - and therefore by their investors - in attempting to drill in the Arctic.  These risks are practically legion – but can be summarised:

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15th Feb 2013
Professor Catherine Mitchell
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Professor Catherine Mitchell reviews Professor Dieter Helm's new book - The Carbon Crunch. 

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14th Feb 2013
Dr Ed Sherman
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Coal occupies little space in the UK’s energy debate yet at the beginning of 2012 there were  still 19 power stations (28.6GW installed capacity) burning coal in the UK.