A Labour environment group has urged the government to be "brave" and reconsider support for a major biomass plant in a seat represented by Keir Starmer's party.

Last week saw the Government mark a key milestone on its mission of achieving clean power by 2030, with the publication of a national Clean Power Action Plan.

Keir Starmer has set out the Government’s “plan for change” which he said would allow the country to judge Labour on whether it has delivered its promises.

The director of a Labour Party environment campaign has urged the Government to not fall into the "Tory trap" of "chopping and changing policy" on green energy.

Many of the sectors, industries, and jobs that will support the Net Zero transition do not yet exist. When we are so unsure of what our future skills needs will be, how can we prepare a skilled workforce ready to create the infrastructure of tomorrow? PoliticsHome sat down with experts from UKCRIC to learn more about the Net Zero skills challenge

Britain’s path to net-zero promises cleaner energy, local jobs and lower bills. With government backing, Vattenfall argues that decarbonisation can deliver real benefits, including warmer homes and more sustainable, inclusive economy

The energy transition must be built responsibly and sustainably to succeed. Benj Sykes, UK country manager at Ørsted, hopes that through collaboration between the sector and the government, clear industry standards can be established for what ‘good’ looks like and how it can be measured

Whilst much focus is on the government’s mission for clean power, Dr Tony Ballance, chief strategy and regulation officer at Cadent, underlines that the UK also needs to address the reality that a large proportion of homes are currently heated by using natural gas.

Huge sums are being invested to transform 350 vacant acres on Scotland’s west coast to support offshore wind and solar connections, adding to the UK’s renewables supply chain infrastructure and boosting a deprived economy.

As we face the intertwined challenges of tackling climate change and securing our future energy supply, the urgent need for a sustainable, resilient energy transition has never been clearer.

Bill Esterson, chair of the energy committee, believes president-elect Donald Trump will want to "follow the money" on energy policy and not bring about a "dramatic" shift in the US approach to tackling climate change.

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves affirmed in Labour’s 2024 budget commitments to producing a 10-year Infrastructure Strategy and to the formation of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA). The Infrastructure Strategy is cross-government and aligns with spending cycles. NISTA combines the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and the Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA) to “fix the foundations of our infrastructure system by bringing infrastructure strategy and delivery together addressing the systemic delivery challenges that have stunted growth for decades”¹.

It wasn’t quite “Forward, the Light Brigade” but the hollers and whoops of enthusiasm from Labour MPs and climate lobbyists as Ed Miliband steeled them for the charge for the guns of a zero-carbon grid had a ring of “Theirs not to reason why…” about it.

Three months on from the election and the battle lines of the political debate on net-zero and energy security are now in sharp focus.

The future of our nation depends on our approach to energy. Growth, national security, jobs, bills and Britain’s reputation for global leadership all rest on the success of the clean energy transition and the pursuit of net-zero by 2050. So, I am thrilled to have been elected as chair of the Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee.

Labour’s plan to reach net-zero by 2030 has the power to transform the health and wealth of our country. But we will only achieve this ambitious target for a green economy by an equally radical shake-up of workforce.

Cadent’s second Global Technology Conference in London gathered over 75 IT companies and Europe’s largest gas distributors to discuss digital transformation, decarbonisation, and the vital role gas networks play in achieving net-zero by 2050.

The recent closure of the UK’s last coal power station has brought the curtain down on an industry that has helped bring jobs and prosperity to communities across the country, but it also marks a generational opportunity for those communities most affected by the closures, with green industries like nuclear giving hope for new jobs and greater investment.

A 40-year consensus that the market could best predict and provide for the nation’s energy needs has been dispatched almost overnight and replaced by an all-knowing ‘system operator’. Illustrations by Tracy Worrall

Achieving the UK government’s economic growth and clean energy missions needs a workforce that can deliver net-zero. Shell UK is stepping up efforts to help make this a reality, including rolling out new energy transition skills hubs, says Parminder Kohli, Chair of Shell UK and Executive Vice President Sustainability and Carbon for Shell Group

Prices rose for the first time this year at the beginning of October, putting the cost of energy into sharp focus once again. Last winter I spoke with PoliticsHome about the impact we were seeing on our customers at that time – how we were stepping in to help and a need for sustainable, long-term solutions.

On the 17th and 18th of September we hosted our biannual in-person stakeholder summit which saw over 170 delegates come together in Manchester from across our vast range of stakeholder groups.

For a government still counting its tenure in weeks, it will have been a welcome outcome to see significant numbers of renewable energy projects awarded Contracts for Difference (CfD) in the sixth allocation round, with an overall 10 gigawatts (GW) boost to UK renewable energy capacity.

The new government has ambitious plans to clean the power grid, but many parts of the economy need alternatives to low carbon electricity