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  • Mountain marvel: how one of biggest batteries in Europe uses thousands of gallons of water to stop blackouts 24 May 2025
    ‘Much-loved’ Dinorwig hydroelectric energy storage site in Wales has a vital role to play in keeping the lights onSeconds after a catastrophic series of power outages struck across the UK in the summer of 2019, a phone rang in the control room of the Dinorwig hydropower plant in north Wales. It was Britain’s energy system […]
    Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
  • Do your research and get the neighbours onboard: how to get solar panels on your apartment building in Australia 24 May 2025
    Want to reduce your carbon footprint but live in a flat? Here are some tips for getting it doneChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.comAustralia has the highest uptake of rooftop […]
    James Norman
  • Britain should adopt the Passivhaus standard to cut energy costs in new homes | Letters 21 May 2025
    Adrian Birch praises the German building standard, saying it can do away with the need for solar panels and heat pumpsRegarding your article (Poor building standards add £1,000 to energy bills of new homes, analysis finds, 16 May), the solution is very simple: the government should adopt the Passivhaus standard that has been established in […]
    Guardian Staff
  • Blow to UK’s 2030 clean energy targets as SSE cuts spending on renewables 21 May 2025
    Developer shrinks five-year investment plans by £3bn blaming policy and planning delaysOne of the UK’s biggest energy developers will cut its planned spending on new renewables projects in a blow to the government’s 2030 clean power targets.SSE warned that it would be unlikely to meet its own renewable energy goals for the end of the […]
    Jillian Ambrose
  • Demand for copper to dramatically outstrip supply within decade 21 May 2025
    International Energy Agency says it is ‘time to sound alarm’ over future shortages of metal needed for low-carbon transitionDemand for copper, needed for the transition to a low-carbon world, will outstrip supply within the next decade, according to the global energy watchdog.Supplies of the metal, a key component of every form of electrical energy system […]
    Fiona Harvey Environment editor

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