Price cap hike ‘has blown a hole in government’s heat pump strategy’

The government has been urged to set out a “credible” domestic heating strategy able to survive under the current energy market

What caused the fatal gas blast at home in Birmingham?

A woman has died and a man has life-threatening injuries following the incident

UK battery start-up Britishvolt to build £200m test facility in West Midlands

It has partnered with Prologis for the Hams Hall facility in Warwickshire which is expected to help the company rapidly ramp up battery cells and support the ‘smooth start-up’ of its planned gigafactory in Northumberland

West Midlands social homes secure £7.5m retrofit boost

More than 620 of the ‘worst’ energy-performing homes will get a boost to improve their energy efficiency

Former landfill and coal mine to become solar farm to power UK hospital

It is predicted that the solar energy produced by the project will power the hospital for three quarters of the year

West Midlands charges into the future with a new Gigafactory

The 530,000 square-metre facility is predicted to attract an £2.5bn investment and create up to 6,000 jobs

West Midlands village to give dead EV batteries a second life

Veolia will build a new facility that is predicted to process 20% of the UK’s end of life EV batteries by 2024

Nearly 2k homes across West Midlands to get energy efficiency boost

Poor insulated, low income households are set to receive support from the local authorities

Severn Trent Water fined £1.5m for illegal sewage discharges

Nearly 360,000 litres of sewage were discharged into one brook

UK fuel spend ‘broke record in September’

That was 125% more than the same day in 2019, according to new research