From CND to evangelist: Julia Pyke has nuclear ambitions for Sizewell C August 22, 2025 Julia Pyke has fended off judicial reviews and staunch local opposition, and waded through Britain’s unwieldy Treasury ‘Green Book’ process to get Sizewell C commissioned by the government. Now, she tells Ali Lyon, there’s just the small issue of building what will be the UK’s joint-largest power plant. It was in 1980s Lichfield – the [...]
Eon: UK sales suffer £800m slump as prices fall July 1, 2025 Turnover at the UK arm of energy giant Eon has slumped by more than £800m thanks to a fall in wholesale commodity prices, it has been revealed. The Coventry-headquartered division of the German group, has reported a turnover of £2.5bn for 2024, down from the £3.3bn it achieved in 2023. But despite the fall in [...]
Firms stumped up extra £29bn for ‘astronomical’ energy costs June 19, 2025 British industry has had to fork out an additional £29bn to fund rising energy costs over the past four years, a fresh analysis has shown, adding further weight to calls for government bring down energy prices for British firms when it publishes its industrial strategy. According to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), firms’ [...]