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Rachel Millard

Clean Energy Correspondent

Rachel Millard covers the shift to cleaner energy in the UK and globally. She joined from the Telegraph in 2023.
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  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Pollution
    ‘Cosy’ wood burners pose seasonal risk of air pollution in UK

    Chief medical officer warns of serious health effects associated with the growing heating trend

    A wood fire
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Commodities
    Trump protectionism threatens energy transition, warns BHP chief

    Mike Henry says shifting US policies risk slowing allocation of capital to projects essential to renewables switch

    Mike Henry, chief executive of BHP
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Electricity networks plan ‘unprecedented’ £77bn investment in clean power push

    Backlog in electricity network connections has been holding back renewable energy projects

    Electricity pylons run across Romney Marsh in Kent
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    European companies
    EU should force customers to buy less polluting products, companies say

    Major fossil fuel and industrial groups push for mandatory requirements in letter to European climate commissioner

    European Union flags
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Groupe Canal+
    Canal+ shares slump a fifth on disappointing London debut

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves had hailed listing as vote of confidence in market

    A Canal+ logo
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    UK energy
    UK to compensate developers if £8bn gas plant project is blocked by court

    Agreement for power station and carbon capture scheme highlights how legal action is key factor for energy groups

    Activist Andrew Boswell with supporters outside the Royal Courts of Justice
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    UK energy
    Ministers consider weakening rights of communities to block clean-power projects

    UK government exploring rule change to limit use of judicial review to challenge large infrastructure projects

    A view of electricity pylons behind houses in Lydd, Kent
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    UK energy
    UK ministers consider biggest ever renewable subsidy auction

    Discussions come as government seeks to meet 2030 clean power target

    Wind turbines and electricity pylons on a wind farm at Little Cheyne Court in Romney, in the south of England
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Renewable energy
    BP and Shell rein in electricity ambitions to escape ‘valley of death’

    Oil majors caught between pro-fossil fuel and pro-climate investors scale back $18bn power generation push

    Montage of BP and Shell logos, and electricity pylon
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Renewable electricity to overtake fossil fuels in UK this year

    Wind closes in on gas as largest single generation source, study finds

    An aerial view of a solar park
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    News in-depthUK politics
    How reachable are Keir Starmer’s new policy ‘milestones’?

    Targets aimed at showing voters that government is on track vary wildly in ambition, experts say

    Montage shows Sir Keir Starmer, newbuild housing and an NHS worker with an elderly patient against a data background
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    How the world’s biggest offshore wind company was blown off course

    Denmark’s Ørsted was once seen as a model for how oil and gas giants could go green. Its recent troubles suggest that things may not be so easy

    Montage image of the Ørsted logo and offshore wind farms
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell signals no new offshore wind projects

    Oil major to pull back from renewable generation business but will continue to develop existing pipeline

    Hollandse Kust (noord) wind farm
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    UK energy
    EDF to keep 4 UK nuclear power stations open longer than planned

    Latest extensions to plants’ working lives could see some sites keep running into next decade

    The nuclear power station can be seen in sunny weather. In the foreground a local cricket club is playing
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    News in-depthAdani Group
    The solar saga behind US bribery allegations against Gautam Adani

    Charges against Indian tycoon follow a troubled government effort to boost renewable power

    A montage of Gautam Adani against solar panels and a wind turbine
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    UK energy
    UK must curb electricity costs to hit green targets, says climate body chief

    Piers Forster says cutting price of electricity should make heat pumps and electric vehicles more attractive

    An electricity pylon beyond a row of residential houses near Stevenage
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    UK energy
    Daniel Křetínský’s power plants in England enjoy surging profits

    Czech billionaire’s gas-fired stations benefit from market disruption in wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine

    Aerial view of South Humber Bank Power Station in Stallingborough, North Lincolnshire. The facility includes large industrial buildings, multiple chimneys and surrounding infrastructure such as roads and adjacent fields.
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Wind power
    Scots stand firm on Chinese wind turbine factory despite ‘hostile state’ fears

    Kate Forbes says there is ‘room’ for Mingyang’s plant, as SNP government pushes for green growth

    Kate Forbes at a wind farm in East Lothian
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Climate legislation
    Britain’s political consensus on climate starts to fracture

    New Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly criticised UK’s net zero target

    Kemi Badenoch spealks at Prime Minister’s Questions
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    UK energy
    Britain’s household energy bills to rise from January

    Regulator Ofgem’s decision to increase price cap means typical yearly bill will be £1,738

    A stainless steel pan is placed on a lit gas hob, with blue flames visible beneath, in a kitchen setting
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    UK energy
    UK cuts fines for boilermakers in climbdown on heat pump sales

    Shift comes after intense lobbying from industry over incoming penalties tied to net zero targets

    An engineer checks the installation of a Daikin 7KW heat pump
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Renewable energy
    GE Vernova boss keeps search for offshore wind turbine orders on ice

    Chief of world’s third-largest manufacturer hopes economic environment will improve after difficult period

    an offshore wind turbine at the Scroby Sands Wind Farm
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Trump’s election victory deals blow to US clean energy industry

    Developers of solar and battery recycling projects put plans on hold amid concern about policy and federal funding support

    Wind turbines operate at a wind farm near solar panels on March 06, 2024 near Palm Springs, California.
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    UK energy
    Builders face ban on gas boilers in most new homes in England

    Industry demands clear guidance and fixed timeframes as concerns over delays to heating reforms mount

    A worker setting up central gas heating boiler in a home
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Hedge funds
    Trump victory hands hedge funds $1.2bn win from bet against renewables

    Clean energy shares have tumbled on fears US president-elect will scrap subsidies and tax breaks

    Contractors install solar panels at a renewable energy complex in Rodeo, California
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