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Energy crisis: Labour unveils £6bn home insulation plan, as pressure mounts on government for action

Business Green

Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Downing Street face mounting pressure to ramp up support for energy efficiency and billpayers as autumn draws nearer. Britain's cost of living crisis is getting worse, leaving people scared about how they'll get through the winter," said Starmer.

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Tory leadership contest goes nuclear, as Truss and Sunak face worsening energy crisis

Business Green

There are now just days to go until Britain's energy regulator officially confirms how much average domestic bills will rise for the autumn period, with concerns growing that the scale of the resulting fuel poverty and economic crisis could be genuinely unprecedented in its scope and intensity.

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No energy security without efficiency: How energy use is key to tackling the gas price crisis

Business Green

Energy security and net zero requires a rethink of the way energy consumed and used. But what policies do experts think shuold feature to the government’s upcoming Energy Security Strategy and Spring Statement? It was a glaring omission.

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PG&E’s Latest Energy Storage Procurement Includes Fleet of Behind-the-Meter Batteries

GreenTechMedia

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. gigawatt-hours, of energy storage projects. The 15-year agreement calls for Nexus Renewables U.S.,

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Jeff Bezos And Amazon Can Empower Consumers On The Greatest Challenge Of Our Time

Jigar Shah

Clean Electricity Like their peers, Amazon has been transitioning to fuel its data centers with solar and wind power. In January 2018, AWS stated that it had achieved 50% renewable energy usage. Reaching 100% renewable energy usage, as it were, would only require another roughly 1,000 Megawatts of renewable energy?

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Could a revised Net Zero Strategy help turn the UK's economic fortunes around?

Business Green

From energy to climate and housing to healthcare, all the way through to stagnating wages, strikes, and declining public confidence in his government's Brexit project, crises abound in almost every direction for the UK and its new Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak certainly has a job on its hands in 2023.

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A tale of missing 'E's: The green economy reacts to the Spring Statement

Business Green

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all of the reaction from the green economy.