Charlie Cooper
Senior Energy Correspondent at POLITICO Europe
Senior UK Energy Correspondent @POLITICOEurope Co-write daily Morning Energy & Climate UK newsletter
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1 week ago |
politico.eu | Charlie Cooper |Graham Lanktree
LONDON — The U.K. government is readying a plan to slash the country’s crippling industrial energy costs so British manufacturers can better compete with global rivals. Electricity prices for U.K. industry are 46 percent above the average for members of the International Energy Agency group of developed countries and four times higher than in the U.S, putting a big strain on British businesses regarding competitiveness.
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4 weeks ago |
politico.eu | Charlie Cooper
LONDON — Britain’s undersea infrastructure is highly vulnerable to Russian sabotage. That's the stark warning from defense and energy experts ahead of the country's major strategic defense review, expected next week. They warn that critical gas pipelines, power lines and data cables are the “soft belly of British security” — leaving the country exposed to potentially “catastrophic” sabotage at the hands of Russia or other enemies.
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1 month ago |
politico.eu | Charlie Cooper
LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has signaled a U-turn on his government’s controversial decision to slash winter energy bill support for pensioners, after a backlash from his own MPs. The prime minister told the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions Wednesday that the government recognized people were “feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis” and that, “as the economy improves,” he wanted to ensure “more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments.”...
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1 month ago |
politico.eu | Sophie Inge |Jon Stone |Charlie Cooper
LONDON — When it comes to rebuilding Britain’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU, the course of true love never did run smooth. But a new pact means it may just get a bit less bumpy. On Monday negotiators unveiled a sweeping agreement on defense and fishing, as well as a pledge to work towards deals in defense, energy, agrifood rules, climate, migration and policing, after years of Brexit bad blood.
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1 month ago |
politico.eu | Charlie Cooper
LONDON — Developers have pulled the plug on one of the U.K.’s biggest offshore wind projects, in a blow to the government’s clean power 2030 ambitions. Danish renewables firm Ørsted said its decision to “discontinue” the 2.4 gigawatt Hornsea 4 wind farm “in its current form” was a result of rising supply chain costs and higher interest rates.
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