The UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants all set new records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity generation from gas still went up. The rise in gas power was due to the end of UK coal generation in late 2024 and nuclear power hitting its lowest level in half a
AS TEMPERATURES plummet and snow hits the UK, many of us will be wondering how to keep warm without cranking up the heating. Meanwhile, the new energy price cap means that households will see their bills rise from £1,755 to £1,758 a year. Sign up for the Money newsletter Thank you! Our six tips can
It is an all-too-familiar scenario: you reheat a bowl of last night’s noodles for lunch, devour it, then return to your desk and gradually droop over the course of the afternoon, to the point at which you are battling to keep your eyes open. Or perhaps you struggle with energy on waking up; or, after
These two upstart energy providers made waves in the market in 2025, but one stock stands out with promising near-term potential. As we exit 2025 and enter 2026, one of the ongoing investment themes is energy. The reason is the growing data center buildout to accommodate increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI). The new data
ENERGY bills are set to fall by £138 a year for millions of households in April. The energy price cap is expected to fall by 8% in April after the Budget moved some charges into general taxation, forecaster Cornwall Insight predicts. Sign up for the Money newsletter Thank you! Energy bills will fall by £138
Brits will see their energy bills will rise on the first day of 2026, just as temperatures plummet in a killer arctic freeze. The bitter snap, predicted to last a week, has already seen temperatures plummet to almost -10C, and snow and ice has been forecast for many parts of the UK including London. Amber
At the start of 2026, it seems the financial picture is finely balanced. Inflation has come down from its latest peak, mortgage rates have started falling and changes announced in the budget should take some money off energy bills from April. But the price of housing, groceries and energy remain far higher than pre-pandemic, and
But the Warrington couple are still cutting back on luxuries to cover bills. “We get a rise on our pension but it gets taken off you by food, petrol and everything else going up all the time so really you don’t benefit,” he said. There is some hope on the horizon in spring, though. In
The Ofgem price cap limits how much you can be charged for unit rates of gas and electricity, as well as the standing charges Energy bills are going up from January 1(Image: MonkeyBusinessImages/Getty Images) Energy bills are rising slightly from today as the new Ofgem price cap comes into force. The typical household that pays
Great Britain’s household energy price cap is set to fall by 8% in April to its lowest since September 2024, a leading forecaster has said. The cap is expected to fall by the equivalent of cutting £138 off a typical annual dual-fuel bill, after the autumn budget shifted some charges to general taxation, according to