Each year, the Climate Change Committee – the UK’s independent advisory body tasked with monitoring the country’s movement toward its legally binding climate goals – gives a report on the government’s progress over the last year.
A new report has found that a record 740GW of renewables capacity was added globally in 2024, but that increased energy demand led to CO2 emissions rising by 0.8 per cent.
Dr Sam Hampton, Senior Researcher, and Dr Jan Rosenow, Energy Programme Leader from the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) have analysed the UK’s new £2 billion industrial strategy, which aims to cut energy bills for around 7,000 large, energy-intensive firms by removing green levies and red...
Modelling and simulation is the key to efficient design and development. Engineers, researchers and scientists in the renewable energy industry are working hard to improve existing technology and develop new technology for the accessibility of clean energy. However, with new designs come new chal...
Registration is now open for the 13th Oxford Energy Day which takes place at the Mathematics Institute, Oxford OX2 6GG on Wednesday 24th September 2025.
Cost remains a key barrier to EV adoption. Joe Stevenson, CEO at Anaphite, explains how dry coating of electrodes can help make batteries cheaper.
1Energy has secured £21m of investment from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) for a city-wide heat network for Oxford.
The UK government’s strategy for tackling climate change received a major blow in May when Danish developer Ørsted announced that adverse economic developments had halted its 2.4 gigawatt (GW) Hornsea 4 wind farm in the North Sea.
The government has declared ‘a golden age of nuclear’ with Sizewell C receiving £14.2bn in state funding and Rolls-Royce SMR being selected to build the country’s first small modular reactors.