Nicholas Earl

London

Energy and Climate Reporter at POLITICO Europe

Energy and Climate @POLITICOEurope, formerly energy editor @CityAM Views mostly stolen from smarter people.

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E&E News: It’s not just British Steel. Here’s where the UK is hooked on China.

1 week ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Mason Boycott-Owen |Charlie Cooper |Abby Wallace |Nicholas Earl
It’s not just British Steel. Here’s where the UK is hooked on China

1 week ago | politico.eu | Mason Boycott-Owen |Charlie Cooper |Abby Wallace |Nicholas Earl

But its formulation has also been heavily influenced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who visited China in January to drum up Chinese investment in Britain. This same Whitehall tug-of-war between “securocrats” and growth has snagged a second U.K. policy — the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), a public register of the activities of hostile nations in Britain, which will launch in July after long delays.
How energy’s smoothest lobbyist wooed Whitehall

1 month ago | politico.eu | Nicholas Earl

LONDON — When Octopus Energy boss Greg Jackson appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2023 — one of the U.K.’s longest-running, most-loved BBC radio shows — his first song choice was a 1980s banger: Yazz’s "The Only Way Is Up."The optimism was on-brand for Jackson, one of the energy industry’s most polished lobbyists with half of Westminster on speed dial. Octopus, the clean energy start-up he founded in 2015, this year became the single largest provider to U.K. households.
E&E News: How Britain can escape Trump’s tariffs: Buy American gas

2 months ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Nicholas Earl |Sophie Inge

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How Britain can escape Trump’s tariffs: Buy American gas

2 months ago | politico.eu | Nicholas Earl |Sophie Inge

LONDON — Britain hopes to keep out of Donald Trump’s global trade war. But persuading the unpredictable United States president not to clobber British imports with his punitive tariff regime won't be easy. As Trump threatens to slap tariffs on friendly countries like Canada and insists he'll also hit the European Union, officials in London are mulling ways to avoid taking a hit of their own.
UK push for North Sea oil and gas drilling was unlawful

2 months ago | politico.eu | Nicholas Earl

LONDON — The Scottish High Court quashed decisions by the British government to approve drilling in two vast North Sea oil and gas fields after legal challenges from environmental campaigners. Fresh decisions on whether to drill in the two fields, Rosebank and Jackdaw, will now have to be made by regulators and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, whose Labour administration succeeded the Conservatives who pushed the initial decision.
UK climate chief Ed Miliband is fighting a losing battle

Jan 23, 2025 | politico.eu | Nicholas Earl

LONDON — U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is in another fight with the Treasury. And, as the government desperately pursues good news on economic growth, he looks destined to lose again. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is on course to approve a new runway at Heathrow Airport, green light the opening of London Gatwick’s second runway and back Luton Airport’s expansion plans, two officials told POLITICO.
E&E News: Inside the floating ’80s relic that wants to be Britain’s energy future

Dec 13, 2024 | subscriber.politicopro.com | Nicholas Earl

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Inside the floating 80s relic that wants to be Britain’s energy future

Dec 9, 2024 | politico.eu | Nicholas Earl

NORTH SEA, U.K. — Twenty miles off the Yorkshire coast, organized into a vast L-shape in the North Sea, is the U.K.’s biggest offshore gas storage facility. You can reach it only by helicopter — and not at all when the weather is bad. Its three platforms, each fixed to the seabed, stretch over hundreds of meters and are navigated via narrow walkways. Grates expose the stormy waters below. This is Rough, managed by the energy giant Centrica, the company which owns British Gas.
The green vs. NIMBY split blowing up British politics

Nov 17, 2024 | politico.eu | Abby Wallace |Nicholas Earl

LONDON — There’s a new, green rift running through Westminster. Every major party in the British parliament is committed to ambitious climate targets in the years ahead. But that means rapidly building new solar farms, wind turbines and pylons all over the country — and MPs are getting nervous about where all this stuff is going to go. The Labour government is rushing to switch the energy system from fossil fuels to homegrown renewables by 2030.