Jillian Ambrose

London

Energy Correspondent at The Guardian

Articles

UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

3 days ago | msn.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

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UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

The UK can reach its net zero targets for 2050, and its interim carbon budgets for 2030 and beyond, the government’s statutory climate advisers have reported, in an unusual vote of confidence in green policy. But difficult decisions cannot be ducked, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) added in its annual progress report to parliament – including a pressing need to overhaul the way energy is taxed in order to make electricity much cheaper than gas.
UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

3 days ago | inkl.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

Labour’s decision to lift the ban on onshore wind farms has brought the UK closer to the policy framework needed to reach net zero. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy The UK can reach its net zero targets for 2050, and its interim carbon budgets for 2030 and beyond, the government’s statutory climate advisers have reported, in an unusual vote of confidence in green policy.
UK gas plants in line for large windfall payments to keep lights on this winter

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

More UK gas plants will be in line for windfall payments to help keep the lights on this winter after generators received multimillion-pound payouts last winter. Britain’s energy system operator expects the UK’s winter power supplies to reach their highest level in five years, in part due to a rising number of gas plants willing to generate electricity during the colder months. Gas plants are typically called on to generate electricity when wind and solar power are in short supply.
Ed Miliband says Labour will ‘win fight’ against UK net zero critics

1 week ago | msn.com | Jillian Ambrose

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Ed Miliband says Labour will ‘win fight’ against UK net zero critics

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

Ed Miliband has said the government will “win this fight” against critics of Britain’s net zero plan, in part by creating more offshore wind jobs in the country’s former industrial heartlands. The energy secretary appeared to take aim at his political opponents in the Conservative and Reform UK parties as he launched a £1bn investment scheme to bolster job opportunities in the offshore wind supply chain.
Does the UK need nuclear to reach net zero? - podcast

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Jillian Ambrose |Madeleine Finlay |Ellie Bury

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has promised £14bn of investment to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, kicking off what the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, says will be a ‘golden age for clean energy abundance’. But for critics, the technology’s high costs and lengthy construction times have always eclipsed the benefits of abundant low-carbon electricity.
Iran and Israel crisis: what does it mean for the price of oil?

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

The escalating crisis between Israel and Iran has already triggered the largest single-day oil price surge in the last three years, and the question for many is how much higher the oil markets might climb. The price of Brent crude has jumped by about $10 a barrel since the start of the month to a high of $78 a barrel on Friday, amid growing concerns that the conflict could wipe out Iran’s oil exports or cut flows of crude from the wider Middle East region to the global market.
Iran and Israel crisis: what does it mean for the price of oil?

1 week ago | inkl.com | Jillian Ambrose

Smoke rises following what Iran says was an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot in Tehran on Monday. Photograph: Majid Asgaripour/Reuters The escalating crisis between Israel and Iran has already triggered the largest single-day oil price surge in the last three years, and the question for many is how much higher the oil markets might climb.
GB Energy’s promised £8.3bn of funding raided to pay for small nuclear reactors

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose |Richard Partington

Rachel Reeves has effectively cut £2.5bn from the government’s national energy company by sharing the £8.3bn it was promised with a separate nuclear power body set up by the Conservatives. The Labour manifesto had pledged the full amount to Great British Energy to invest in clean power projects. However, the chancellor’s spending review said the company would share this funding with a separate body tasked with spearheading Britain’s nuclear renaissance.