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The UK government aims to cut energy bills for large businesses by up to a quarter over four years, thanks to a £2 billion investment within its new industrial strategy. The aim is to make British manufacturers of steel, cars, chemicals, glass and other industrial sectors more competitive with foreign…

Turkey is stepping up its influence in west Africa as the geopolitical and economic landscape in the region shifts. In Senegal, the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation has entered a key partnership in the oil and gas sector. Meanwhile, Karpowership, a company providing electricity via floating power plants, now supplies energy…

The latest substation blaze could have been avoided, a report has found

RTS meters in 300,000 homes to be phased out rather than turned off on 30 June deadline

Proposed relief on standing charges was included in the Industrial Strategy published on Monday.

July Nymex natural gas (NGN25 ) on Monday closed down by -0.149 (-3.87%). July nat-gas prices on Monday extended last Friday's large losses on the outlook for extreme heat across the US to moderate, potentially reducing nat-gas demand from electricity providers to run air conditioning. Forecaster Vaisala said heat is...

Jonathan Reynolds’s new strategy looks more like a sketch of plan than a fully worked-up scheme for the sector

New partnerships are forming between tech companies and power operators — ones that could reshape decades of misconceptions about nuclear energy.

South Africa has many factories, warehouses, schools and hospitals – big buildings with large rooftop spaces. In such a sunny country, these flat surfaces would be perfect for large photovoltaic solar systems that could generate enough renewable energy to supply themselves, and feed into the national grid. This would reduce…

Plan to drive growth in eight sectors through measures such as trade support and cutting energy prices

The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing.