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• Zurich shows what real time emissions measuring can do

  10-12-2025 14:10 via energylivenews.com
  Zurich has just shown Europe what a real-time carbon-counting future looks like with a breakthrough system that measures the city’s CO₂ emissions directly from the air not just from spreadsheets.Until now cities relied on inventories built from fuel use and activity data. Useful but slow and often out of date.
  Zurich is now using a dense network of sensors plus advanced atmospheric models to track CO₂ as it moves through the city giving a live picture of what is really being e
  
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• Reaching net zero: what will it cost the UK and is it a price worth paying?

  11-12-2025 16:32
  An official report says the bill for switching to clean energy will rise sharply – and puts forward a slower, ‘falling behind” alternativeThe cost of hitting net zero targets has been laid bare by the UK’s energy system operator, showing a surge in spending over the coming years.But investing in clean generation projects, distribution networks and replacing fossil fuel cars and boilers could be many billions of pounds cheaper if the UK was less ambitious, according to Thu
  
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• Carbon nanotubes – pathway to stronger, cheaper flexible solar panels

  11-12-2025 16:00 via energylivenews.com
  Replacing indium tin oxide with single-walled carbon nanotubes could transform flexible perovskite solar panels.
  Researchers led by the University of Surrey found that a simple sulfuric acid treatment significantly boosts conductivity while keeping the films transparent.The treatment creates a nickel-based bridge layer that strengthens internal connections. This allowed the team to achieve more than 20% efficiency in large flexible cells and a record 24.5% in smaller devices.Professor Wei Zhang
  
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• Small business to get green upgrade relief of £2m

  11-12-2025 15:00 via energylivenews.com
  Labour has promised SMEs £2 million to help cut costs and boost green upgrades.Ministers say the cash will help thousands of SMEs slash bills by investing in clean tech from insulation to solar panels.
  It lands alongside a wider package responding to the Willow Review which found 67% of SMEs that installed kit like solar or sold energy back to the grid cut their day-to-day costs.The new money flows through the Made Smarter Adoption Programme to help firms adopt energy saving technology th
  
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• Transition will halve our energy costs by 2050

  11-12-2025 14:00 via energylivenews.com
  Britain could halve its energy spending by 2050 as decarbonisation cuts costs and shields the economy from fossil fuel shocks.That is the headline finding from NESO’s new analysis of the Future Energy Scenarios 2025 which lays out three illustrative routes to net zero and the price tags attached.NESO says energy-related costs fall in every pathway dropping from roughly 10% of GDP today to around 5-6% by mid-century even as demand rises due to population growth, economic expansion and powe
  
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• Great grid upgrade gets sealink boost

  11-12-2025 13:02 via energylivenews.com
  Britain’s electricity upgrade just landed a major boost as Sumitomo Electric wins the contract to build and install the 140 km Sea Link HVDC cable between Kent and Suffolk.The project is central to the Great Grid Upgrade, the national push to move more clean power around the country faster and cut constraint costs that hit bills.
  Sea Link will be built at Sumitomo Electric’s new submarine cable factory at the Port of Nigg in Scotland, giving the UK a rare dose of industrial strategy
  
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• Flagship Energy’s Mike Stafford Energy Markets Update – 11th December 2025

  11-12-2025 12:20 via energylivenews.com
  Bearish movement has continued across UK gas and power markets over the last week, with gas prices further along the curve now striking 44-month lows. Power prices for the same periods saw milder downward movement, but still struck lows not seen since April 25 in the aftermath of the Trump administration’s tariff announcement. Gas and power for Q1 26 each hit a new all-time low on 10th December, although front month prices proved a little more resistant to bearish pressure, finding suppor
  
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• Shell faces legal claim of making Typhoon ‘more destructive’

  11-12-2025 12:00 via energylivenews.com
  Shell is facing a landmark legal fight in London as survivors of a deadly Philippine typhoon allege the company helped make the storm more destructive.A group of 103 survivors of Typhoon Rai, which killed around 400 people and wrecked millions of homes in December 2021, has filed a claim at the Royal Courts of Justice.
  They allege Shell’s historic emissions and alleged climate misinformation contributed to a warmer atmosphere that made the typhoon more likely and more severe.
  Shell reject
  
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• Royal Mail deploys 8,000th electric vehicle ahead of festive peak

  11-12-2025 10:45 via energylivenews.com
  Royal Mail has rolled out its 8,000th electric vehicle as it accelerates plans to cut emissions and reach Net Zero by 2040. The van was unveiled at Nottingham North Delivery Office, where 48 electric vehicles are already in operation.The milestone cements Royal Mail’s position as the UK’s largest electric delivery fleet. The unveiling was led by Michael Payne, Member of Parliament for Gedling, as the company prepares for the Christmas rush. Nottingham North has added 14 seasonal sta
  
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• GB Energy set out £1bn supply chain pathway

  11-12-2025 09:30 via energylivenews.com
  Britain wants to rebuild the clean energy supply chain from the ground up and Great British Energy has launched a £1bn plan to do it.The Energy Engineered in the UK programme is aimed at fixing the component shortages that are slowing offshore wind and grid expansion from blades and turbines to transmission cables and converter stations.At the heart of the push is a £300m Supply Chain Fund for offshore wind and networks which will help manufacturers expand, build new facilities and
  
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• Networks set out jobs plan for grid growth

  10-12-2025 16:33 via energylivenews.com
  Britain’s networks sector has unveiled its first ever joint plan to turn grid upgrades into jobs growth and a manufacturing boost.For the first time electricity networks and their supply chains have come together to build a Sector Growth Plan led by ENA and BEAMA.
  If the UK is going to electrify everything, it needs to make sure the billions going into cables transformers and substations translate into British jobs British factories and British skills.The interim report says tens of thous
  
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• Welsh schools get solar help from GB Energy

  10-12-2025 15:30 via energylivenews.com
  Wales is about to put solar on the roof of its public estate as £9m of funding lands to cut bills and accelerate decarbonisation across schools and community buildings.The cash comes from Great British Energy and marks one of its first major interventions in Wales with the UK and Welsh Governments working together on delivery.The money will fund up to £4m of new solar PV projects on public buildings through the Wales Funding Programme. Early recipients include Coleg Cambria in Wrexh
  
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• Scientists discover a new state of matter at Earth’s center

  10-12-2025 14:32 via sciencedaily.com
  New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching seismic observations that have puzzled scientists for decades. The mobility of these light elements may also contribute energy to Earth’s magnetic field. The findings reshape models of Earth’s interior and could apply to other rocky planets.
  
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• Moving house just got greener

  10-12-2025 12:30 via energylivenews.com
  Britain’s biggest energy supplier and its biggest property platform are joining forces to make green homes easier to spot and easier to buy as demand for low carbon tech surges.Rightmove says listings mentioning heat pumps are up 46% and references to solar panels are up 37% in a year, showing buyers are actively hunting for cleaner tech.
  Octopus Energy’s research backs it up with nine in ten heat pump owners saying they are happy with the switch and most reporting homes as warm or
  
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• Net Hero Podcast – Powering our lives floating on a tide

  10-12-2025 11:23 via energylivenews.com
  Antoine Peiffer from Principle Power joins me from California this week to explore the myths and realities of floating wind.It’s not just fantasy anymore as he tells me his team has now generated one terawatt hour of clean electricity from turbines that never touch the seabed. From the first minute it’s clear this is not a niche experiment, it’s a serious new chapter for offshore wind.Antoine told me floating wind is basically a giant turbine sitting on a buoyant steel platfor
  
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• Greener power for grass root footie

  10-12-2025 10:00 via energylivenews.com
  Grassroots football clubs are scoring big energy savings with new data showing four pioneer teams have cut their usage by 25% and saved nearly £10,000 through E.ON Next’s Greener Game programme.The scheme, run with England Football, has pushed clubs to fit solar panels, add battery storage and improve insulation. The message is simple. Lower bills mean more money for players pitches and local communities.Across the past year 250 clubs have joined the programme and 70 have already ha
  
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• It’s two years since we were told ‘the age of fossil fuels will end’. When will Australia get prepared for what’s coming? | Clear Air

  10-12-2025 00:26
  The decline of the coal export industry could come even faster than expected, and we need to do more to manage the economic risksWant to get this in your inbox when it publishes? Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter hereThe year is winding down and for some Australians that means thinking about Christmas or the beach. For others, it will mean considering how they will cope with the next heatwave or bushfire. Already, two states have been burning.The least bold prediction for the summer
  
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• Ofgem approves early investment in three UK electricity ‘superhighways’

  09-12-2025 19:03
  Green light intended to limit amount consumers pay for windfarms to turn off during periods of high generationThree major UK electricity “superhighways” could move ahead sooner than expected to help limit the amount that households pay for windfarms to turn off during periods of high power generation.Current grid bottlenecks mean there is not enough capacity to transport the abundance of electricity generated in periods of strong winds to areas where energy demand is highest. Continu
  
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• Utilities abandon hopes for hydrogen grids as gas networks face decline

  09-12-2025 17:30 via energylivenews.com
  Utilities across Germany, Austria and Switzerland are preparing to wind down their gas networks after losing confidence in using pipelines for hydrogen transport. A new Horvath survey shows the sector shifting sharply toward electrification and storage.Horvath reported that “the assessment that gas networks will no longer play a central role in the future is becoming increasingly widespread.” The consultancy warned that “stagnation and decline prevail in the gas business.&rdqu
  
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• Plants that can live in salty soil

  09-12-2025 16:30 via energylivenews.com
  Researchers at Waseda University have identified a motor protein that plays a key role in how plants cope with salty soils.
  They found that Arabidopsis thaliana myosin XI-1, part of the myosin XI family, significantly regulates adaptation to salt stress by helping to control intracellular sodium ion homeostasis.Salt stress is one of the most damaging abiotic pressures on crops, reducing growth, productivity and yields worldwide. High sodium levels disrupt protein synthesis, photosynthesis, nutr
  
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• US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects

  09-12-2025 16:16
  Federal judge declared January executive order unlawful, ruling in favor of a coalition of state attorneys generalA federal judge on Monday struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of windfarms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violated US law.Judge Patti Saris of the US district court for the district of Massachusetts vacated Trump’s 20 January executive order bl
  
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• Energy sector distress jumps 20%

  09-12-2025 15:29 via energylivenews.com
  Corporate distress across the UK continues to rise, with the energy sector among the worst affected, according to the Institute for Turnaround’s sixth Societal Impact report.
  The analysis shows distress up by more than 20% in both energy and real estate between 2024 and 2025.Despite insolvencies falling compared with the previous two years, levels remain higher than in 2021 and 2022.
  The report finds that distressed business numbers have barely shifted since the 10% increase recorded last
  
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• India Sweden project targets greener steel and cement

  09-12-2025 14:30 via energylivenews.com
  Indian companies are teaming up with Swedish technology innovators on seven new projects to cut emissions from steel and cement, two of India’s hardest to abate sectors.
  The initiatives will carry out pre pilot feasibility studies under the LeadIT industry transition partnership, backed by the Indian Department of Science and Technology and the Swedish Energy Agency.Heavy industry accounts for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and a third of energy use worldwide.
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• Australia’s energy grid must triple capacity by 2050 with major increase to wind and solar, Aemo says

  09-12-2025 14:01
  Market operator says capital cost of infrastructure under optimal path would be $128bn in today’s dollars, but price of delay is even higherSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe capacity of Australia’s main electricity grid will need to triple by 2050 – including a fivefold expansion of large-scale wind, solar and storage – under the most likely developmen
  
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• New science tightens estimates of 2°C carbon budget

  09-12-2025 13:30 via energylivenews.com
  How much the planet warms for each tonne of carbon dioxide is still one of the biggest questions in climate science and uncertainty in that response makes it harder to set clear emission targets.
  Now a team of researchers in Japan has combined climate model projections with real world observations to sharpen estimates of future warming and the remaining carbon budget for limiting temperature rise to 2°C.The study uses results from 20 state of the art Earth system models that took part in th
  
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• Britain’s 25 years of offshore wind leadership

  09-12-2025 12:30 via energylivenews.com
  The UK is marking 25 years since its first offshore wind farm began generating clean power, with Blyth Offshore Wind Farm off the Northumberland coast paving the way for an industry now central to the country’s energy transition.
  The four megawatt pilot, made up of two turbines a kilometre out to sea, produced enough electricity for around 3,000 homes.In a single generation offshore wind has grown into our largest source of clean power, supplying over a third of renewable electricity and
  
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• Three giant grid projects get Ofgem approval

  09-12-2025 11:19 via energylivenews.com
  Three huge grid projects designed to move more clean British power to homes and slash constraint costs, have just been pushed a step closer by Ofgem.The regulator has approved new delivery dates and scope changes for Eastern Green Link three and four plus the new onshore link between Grimsby and Walpole.
  These links will shift offshore wind from Scotland to England at scale and cut the wasteful practice of paying turbines to switch off when the grid is full.Each EGL link will carry 2GW through
  
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• ‘It’s Scotland’s energy’: SNP to focus on renewables in Holyrood election

  08-12-2025 19:05
  Leader John Swinney says independence could cut household energy bills by a third in the long termThe future of Scottish renewables will underpin the Scottish National party’s Holyrood election campaign, the party leader, John Swinney, has said, as he claimed independence could cut household energy bills by a third in the long term.At what was billed as the first campaign event before next May’s elections to the Scottish parliament, Swinney declared: “It’s Scotland’
  
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• Use anaerobic digestion to capture CO2 cheaply

  08-12-2025 16:00 via energylivenews.com
  Carbon capture just got a whole lot cheaper and that could change the climate game forever.A new report from AD BioResources calls its latest carbon-capture method “the world’s cheapest cleaner,” arguing it delivers deep CO₂ cuts at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems.
  The firm says this tech can draw down carbon affordably at industrial scale — offering a real escape route from the climate crisis without breaking the bank.The cost bump is the killer. Con
  
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• UK confirms £310m AR7a auction budget

  08-12-2025 15:52 via renews.biz
  UK confirms £310m AR7a auction budget
  
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