The Latest Breaking News from Electricity

As the National Grid warns Britons could face blackouts due to the energy crisis we look back at the last time the country was plunged into darkness

National Grid said the move to use two standby plants should ‘give the public confidence in Monday’s energy supply’

Two more coal-fired power stations are being brought online to prepare for a surge in demand

The German government is denying reports that it plans to ban energy price increases next year. Rather, it says it plans to require energy companies to prove that any increases in electricity or natural gas prices are necessary before it will allow them. Companies would have to prove that they…

Great Britain’s electricity system operator says it has no concerns over blackouts despite snow and ice

Pro-Kremlin rhetoric is catching on with some as winter heating and basic foods become unaffordable

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warns economy likely to get worse before improving, after UK GDP rose 0.5% in October, but shrank by 0.3% in the August-October quarter

Global research coalition Climate Action Tracker (CAT) categorises Indonesia’s climate goals as “Critically Insufficient”, which means they are far from enough to curb global warming.

On a warmish evening across Perth and southern WA recently, something happened to make Andy Wearmouth feel very uncomfortable, while just about everybody else in the state remained blissfully ignorant.

Severely cold weather has come with low wind speeds, creating perfect storm to drive wholesale costs up

All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, leaving 1.5 million people without power, officials said on Saturday. "The situation in the Odesa region is very difficult," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.…