What’s going on with energy prices?
A frog that boils slowly does not notice till it is cooked. Cooking frogs becomes more difficult this October as we once again get to enjoy an energy price rise,…
Jenny Jones calls for Drax subsidies to be diverted into home insulation and renewable energy
Green Party peer Jenny Jones has called for the billions of pounds currently being used to subsidise Drax Power Station to be used for insulating homes and installing solar panels.…
A nuclear power-free Scotland would be ‘safer for people and planet’, Scottish Greens claim
The Scottish Greens have called for a Scotland free of nuclear power, claiming it would be 'safer for people and planet'. The party's climate spokesperson Mark Ruskell has made the…
Tories are ‘printing fossil fuel licenses as fast as covid contracts for dodgy donors’, Mark Ruskell MSP tells Scottish Green Party conference
Scottish Green Party MSP Mark Ruskell has accused the Tory government in Westminster of "printing off oil and gas licences as fast as covid contracts for dodgy donors". He made…
What’s gone wrong for offshore wind in the UK?
There are various responses to disaster. Last week, the government announced the UK contracts for difference auction which would contract any offshore wind production, equivalent to a third of the…
Energy bills: Will they stay high forever?
Why are energy prices so high? That was a question that crossed the lips of many of us over the last year - often shortly after receiving an bill. The…
Closure of Ffos-y-fran coal mine must mark next chapter of Wales’ renewable revolution say Greens
Last week's confirmation that the Ffoys-y-Fran coal mine will be closed in November has been welcomed by the Wales Green Party. The mine is the UK's largest opencast coal mine. …
Are we moving towards the energy transition we need?
At moments of crisis, societies act. This is a truth so longstanding we can see it in the bible, prophetic warnings rarely move decadent societies, disaster does. Curtailment of Russian…
Demands for public ownership of energy after CEO awarded £3.7m bonus
Calls for energy to be brought into public ownership are growing after news that an energy firm boss is being awarded an eye watering bonus. Chris O'Shea, the CEO of…
Why hydrogen won’t be a major solution to decarbonising domestic heating
Winter has come are dreaded words in the Song of Ice and Fire books and in the real world. In the former it is due to the risk of an…