As UK electricity prices skyrocketed last year, Drax Group Plc was in a position to blunt Britain’s pain. Since December 2016, a generator at the firm’s giant power plant had received £1.4 billion ($1 ...

The UK’s power sector can bring natural gas generation down to just 1% of electricity by 2030, which would avoid £93 billion ($99.6 billion) in gas costs in the same period, according to new modeling ...

Leading data and analytics company GlobalData’s latest report, 'UK Power Market Trends and Analysis by Capacity, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Regulations, Key Players and Forecast to 2035', ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, June 27 (Reuters) - Power producers in the United Kingdom cut the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation by 16% over the first five months of 2024 from the same period in ...

A roadmap released by the UK government on Jan. 11 aimed at quadrupling the country’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 sets out a series of goals and actions that could enable the delivery of 3 GW to 7 ...

Natural gas-fired generation continues to provide much of the electricity in the UK, but renewable power in total at times has taken the lead spot in the country’s generation mix over the past several ...

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station - the UK's last coal-fired power station - will shut next week Since 1967, it has produced enough energy to make more than one billion cups of tea per day The power ...

Continued reliance on gas-fired generation will eventually push power prices back up, finds analysis, although doing away with gas entirely would be even more expensive Surging power supply from wind ...

A UK energy network operator is looking to heat residential homes with on-site compute via immersion-cooled Raspberry Pi clusters. Energy network operator UK Power Networks (UKPN) has announced a new ...

The UK government has pledged £506 million to support the development of nuclear fusion, aiming to build a prototype power plant by 2040. The investment will also support the repurposing of the UK's ...

Electricity distribution network operator UK Power Networks has installed the UK’s first smart substation in Maidstone, Kent. The substation was installed at the Allington Energy from Waste plant. As ...

In 1882, the world's first coal-fired public-use power station opened in London at 57 Holborn Viaduct—today a fairly nondescript location in the centre of London close to Blackfriars. On Friday, some ...