Transmission cables from the 24 offshore wind farms around the UK — which have a combined value of nearly £7.7bn — are all owned by companies with links to corporate tax havens. A Ferret investigation has found that five companies which part-own the cables — HICL Infrastructure, 3i Group, International Read more…
In June 2011, 18 months before going off to serve Her Majesty in another capacity, former energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne made a remarkable speech in which he asserted that the Government’s green policies, far from costing households, would actually save us money. “Green growth,” he said, can Read more…
Britain’s electricity generation went through an unfortunate phase last year. According to the UK-based website Carbon Brief, it got dirtier for the first time in years as renewable sources failed to provide sufficient power to help the nation’s economy recover from lockdown restrictions. More coal and gas had to be Read more…