Jillian Ambrose

London

Energy Correspondent at The Guardian

Articles

Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

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

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Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

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

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Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing

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

The owner of the Drax wood-burning power station should be forced to disclose full details of its tree consumption, campaigners have argued, as MPs review the billions in renewables subsidies the North Yorkshire plant receives. A delegated legislation committee will decide on Monday whether to pass the government’s plans to extend billpayer-funded subsidies to the country’s biomass power generators, of which Drax is by far the biggest.
Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power

5 days ago | msn.com | Jillian Ambrose

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Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

When millions of people across the Iberian peninsula were left without power last month the political fallout ignited debate over Europe’s renewable energy agenda, and fuelled the rising interest in nuclear power. Europe’s largest power blackout in decades, still largely unexplained, has raised questions about whether renewable energy can be relied on to provide a stable source of clean energy. It has also fuelled a renewed interest in the global nuclear power renaissance already under way.
Three gas firms fined £8m by Ofgem for being too slow to attend leaks

1 week ago | msn.com | Kalyeena Makortoff |Jillian Ambrose

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Heathrow boss sorry for sleeping through outage with phone on silent

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

Heathrow’s chief executive has expressed his “deep regret” at being uncontactable and sleeping through the massive power outage that upended the travel plans of 200,000 passengers earlier this year. Thomas Woldbye slept through two emergency notification calls and “several” phone calls from Heathrow’s chief operating officer, Javier Echave, in the early hours of the morning after a fire at a nearby substation knocked out power supplies to the airport.
Thousands of Britons to receive compensation for prepayment meter force-fittings

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

Tens of thousands of British households that had prepayment meters force-fitted in their properties are to share more than £18.6m in compensation and debt write-offs on their energy bills. The energy regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, found that energy companies forced prepayment meters on more than 150,000 homes that were not keeping up with their bills, in one of its most comprehensive compliance reviews.
Mountain marvel: how one of biggest batteries in Europe uses thousands of gallons of water to stop blackouts

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

Seconds after a catastrophic series of power outages struck across the UK in the summer of 2019, a phone rang in the control room of the Dinorwig hydropower plant in north Wales. It was Britain’s energy system operator requesting an immediate deluge of electricity to help prevent a wide-scale blackout crippling Britain’s power grids. The response was swift, and in the end just under million people were left without power for less than 45 minutes.
Reform UK promise to reverse ban on North Sea oil drilling if elected

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jillian Ambrose

Reform UK has promised to reverse the government’s ban on fresh North Sea oil and gas drilling as a “day one” priority if elected to power, with the taxpayer taking a stake in the new projects. Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, has met with senior UK oil executives in recent weeks to pledge the party’s support for the industry, which has been hard hit by the government’s windfall tax and moves to block fresh North Sea exploration licences.