Energy

Robert Bagnall is the Green Party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Totnes. Here he discusses the ‘con’ of marginal cost pricing for energy.

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has called for the urgent introduction of a government-backed home insulation programme to protect those most at risk of fuel poverty this winter. ...

Record temperatures in summer, less rainfall, severe storms – Spain’s climate reality is harsh and intensifying. But the Spanish government isn’t sitting idly by; it plans to source 74 pe...

The Green Party has revealed their plans to move the UK’s Earth Overshoot Day later into the year with a focus on energy, housing and transport.

Green Party Councillor Steve Williams on Waverley Borough Council's fight versus the Secretary for State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities over on-shore drilling in Dunsfold. ...

“It’s up to us all to stop this madness”. Elly Foster, member of the Ceredigion Green Party, takes a look at the plans for disposing of the UK’s nuclear waste.

Maggie Mason, South Lakes Action on Climate Change, gives her opinion on the Whitehaven, Cumbria coal mine and the current state of play for coal and steel in the UK.  

Mags Lewis, disability spokesperson for the Green Party, on the consequences for disabled people as pressures in the UK mount and why it is essential that disabled people are front and ce...

Councillor Georgia Taylor, representing Forest Row and Groombridge, East Sussex County Council, discusses the response to her ‘no to fracking’ motion – and what it tells us about the stat...

At a time when the moral bankruptcy of energy companies has been laid bare by their profit-making in an energy crisis, different models for energy production and consumption are more rele...

The Green Party is calling for continued support for businesses from the UK Government in the face of rising energy costs and stresses this as the moment to move towards renewables and en...

“While councillors never responded to our emails and letters, their position gradually changed with bigger numbers opposing opening a new coal mine”. Local campaigner and Allerdale and Co...

Cherry Waters of the Selby Green Party discusses the recent revelations on the Drax power station in Selby, North Yorkshire.

Green peer Jenny Jones cautions that the Energy Prices Bill being ‘rushed through Parliament’ may push the industry away from renewables.

Fossil fuels are the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Yet global governments are on track to produce 120 per cent more than is compatible with the Paris Agreement. ...

As the PM announces her new energy strategy, co-leader Adrien Ramsay urges it ‘will cause yet more damage’ to communities and the climate.

Green peer Natalie Bennett outlines the Lords’ discussion of the Energy Bill, which, as it currently stands, would see the UK misstep on greening energy  

Co-leader Carla Denyer: The latest price rise is a ‘horrifying blow to households’ and a reminder of ‘how broken our energy system is’.

Brighton and Hove Green Party member Martin Farley argues that the solution to the energy and cost of living crises is to support household budgets, not reduce energy prices.

The Green Party’s proposal would save UK householders more than £2,000 by restoring the energy price cap to the same rate as October 2021.