Continued reliance on gas-fired generation will eventually push power prices back up, finds analysis, although doing away with gas entirely would be even more expensive Surging power supply from wind ...

As UK electricity prices skyrocketed last year, Drax Group Plc was in a position to blunt Britain’s pain. Since December 2016, a generator at the firm’s giant power plant had received £1.4 billion ($1 ...

Natural gas-fired generation continues to provide much of the electricity in the UK, but renewable power in total at times has taken the lead spot in the country’s generation mix over the past several ...

A roadmap released by the UK government on Jan. 11 aimed at quadrupling the country’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 sets out a series of goals and actions that could enable the delivery of 3 GW to 7 ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, June 27 (Reuters) - Power producers in the United Kingdom cut the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation by 16% over the first five months of 2024 from the same period in ...

Low wind speeds have pushed the UK’s power prices to their highest level in two years on Tuesday, with wind generation expected to plunge to the lowest level on Wednesday since September 2023, ...

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station - the UK's last coal-fired power station - will shut next week Since 1967, it has produced enough energy to make more than one billion cups of tea per day The power ...

The UK’s electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, new Carbon Brief analysis shows, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade. This is because the UK ...

Science fiction writers have been touting fusion as the utopian future energy production technology for decades. After all, it is how the sun works, and that has been outputting energy for 4.6 billion ...