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Clean-energy growth helped China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a…

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to…

Extreme “wind droughts” that reduce power output from turbines for extended periods could become 15% longer by the end of…

The global energy transition is now “unstoppable” due to “smart economics”, UN general-secretary António Guterres has said in an online…

China’s exports of clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are increasingly helping to cut emissions in…

Jonathan Brearley became chief executive of the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem in 2020.  Since then, he has seen the organisation…

A few years ago, solar power became the “cheapest electricity in history”, but it still lacked the ability to meet…

Reform UK’s local-election victories in May 2025 could put 6 gigawatts (GW) of new clean-energy capacity at risk, according to…

The UK’s chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the green light this week to the Sizewell C new nuclear plant in Suffolk,…

The global shift towards a clean-energy system is much more than just a technological switch – it is a profound…