Solar energy currently faces a critical limitation: materials that absorb light more strongly also tend to be less efficient at turning captured light into electricity.
The development consent order (DCO) for National Grid Electricity Transmission’s (NGET’s) 2GW Sea Link subsea cable project has been approved by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (Desnz). The project would connect Pegwell Bay in Kent to the Suffolk coast between Aldeburgh and Th...
For the first time, UK ministers have had to weigh the emissions from burning gas extracted from a North Sea field before approving its development. The way they did so for Jackdaw says a good deal about how the far larger Rosebank oil field is likely to fare.
Cassandra Etter-Wenzel, DPhil candidate in the School of Geography and the Environment and researcher with the Environmental Change Institute and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and Dr Anupama Sen, Head of Policy Engagement at the Smith School, argue that the debate over the J...
The arrival of cooler weather following a summer of heatwaves, is a timely reminder that the UK electricity system must be resilient to the effects of temperature extremes at both ends of the thermometer.
View Chris Jardine’s latest video in the Energy 101 Series. This time he is looking at the barriers to adoption. Once again, Nick Eyre is providing the insights.
Is AI a climate change villain, whose insatiable hunger for electricity will roast the planet? Or will it help predict where the next climate disaster will strike and what to do about it?
A new three-year research programme led by the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) will investigate how to accelerate the shift from fossil fuels to electricity across transport, buildings and industry.
The University of Oxford has been recognised as the top university in the world for an unprecedented 11th consecutive year by the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2027.