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More than 5.8 million – or one in five – customers moved to a different power supplier last year

Onshore and offshore wind farms hit a new high of 14.9GW between 6pm and 6.30pm last Wednesday

Clean power sources made up 85% of total power production in the second quarter of 2018

Airbus’ unmanned aircraft weighs only 75 kilograms and flies at an altitude of 70,000 feet

Scientists at the energy centre managed to fire 2.15 megajoules of energy into a target chamber

There was no coal production between 10.25pm on Monday,16th April and 5.20am today

This breaks a record set earlier in March when wind supplied 29.1% of the nation’s power with 13.8GW

  The world’s oceans rose to the highest temperatures on record in 2017. Chinese experts found the upper 2,000m of ocean water were far more warmer last year than the previous hottest year in 2015. The Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP CAS) said in comparison, total electricity generation in […]

A record 5.5 million customers switched electricity supplier in 2017. That’s according to the latest figures from Energy UK, which show this is a 15% increase on the 4,822,885 switches that took place the year before. More than 400,000 customers changed supplier in December alone and through the year, competition has intensified, with 28% of […]

The past year has been the UK’s greenest on record, in terms of how much of the country’s power comes from clean sources. That’s according to the latest statistics from National Grid, which shows renewable technologies and low carbon innovations have helped break a number of energy records. For the first time, June saw wind, […]