Jonathan Leake

London

Journalist specialising in energy, environment, climate and science. Currently energy editor at the Daily Telegraph, London.

Articles

Plans for giant gas-filled caverns to avoid net zero energy shortages

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jonathan Leake

The high pressures of such systems mean they can generate power for three days at a time, far longer than the battery systems being installed on the national grid. The scheme would exploit a massive layer of halite or rock salt, about 600 metres thick, lying a kilometre below Morecambe Bay's seabed, where it has been buried for more than 100m years.
City giant demands BP chairman’s scalp over net zero retreat

1 week ago | msn.com | Jonathan Leake

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‘Ed Miliband’s solar blitz has ruined my life’

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jonathan Leake

For Mandy Goodhand and Stephanie Johnson-Mansley, it looked like the retirement cottage they’d always dreamed of. Howell Fen Farm, a remote but beautiful 1850s Lincolnshire farmhouse, is surrounded by green fields and wildlife and offered lots of room for the animal refuge they’d always wanted. But 15 months after spending £380,000 buying the property, plus another £80,000 on refurbishments, a knock on the door from a local farmer ruined their rural idyll.
'Ed Miliband's solar blitz has ruined my life'

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jonathan Leake

For Mandy Goodhand and Stephanie Johnson-Mansley, it looked like the retirement cottage they'd always dreamed of. Howell Fen Farm, a remote but beautiful 1850s Lincolnshire farmhouse, is surrounded by green fields and wildlife and offered lots of room for the animal refuge they'd always wanted. But 15 months after spending £380,000 buying the property, plus another £80,000 on refurbishments, a knock on the door from a local farmer ruined their rural idyll.
City giant demands BP chairman’s scalp over net zero retreat

1 week ago | msn.com | Jonathan Leake

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City giant demands BP chairman's scalp over net zero retreat

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jonathan Leake

The move coincides with BP's announcement on Friday that it has lowered its outlook for gas production in the first quarter of 2025 while its debts are set to jump. The gas marketing and trading result is expected to be "weak", BP told investors, primarily because of the sales of businesses in Egypt and Trinidad that the company completed at the end of the year.
Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ boom is already imploding

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jonathan Leake

Jonathan LeakeThu, April 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM UTC8 min read“Drill, baby, drill.”It was the slogan that powered Donald Trump’s return to the White House and promised the revival of America’s fossil fuel industry. However, that pledge is already at risk of falling apart after the president’s tariff blitz triggered the biggest oil crisis since the pandemic.
Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' boom is already imploding

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jonathan Leake

According to Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the IMF, oil producers "are screaming that the price is too low". All of which is a far cry from what Trump had promised voters, including those in the oil and gas industry, which donated tens of millions of dollars to his re-election campaign. The consequences of this latest crisis are huge.
Miliband approves wind turbines as tall as Eiffel Tower to be built in Channel

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Jonathan Leake

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Miliband approves wind turbines as tall as Eiffel Tower to be built in Channel

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Jonathan Leake

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