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On 5 September the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) issued a "call for information" on the UK petrol and diesel sector aimed at soliciting evidence for or against the competition concerns raised in relation to retail fuel prices.

Oil and Gas UK have released a paper detailing their position in relation to the European Commission's proposal to regulate offshore safety.

Apart from solar photovoltaics and fuel cells, nearly all electricity generation depends on spinning a turbine, usually by creating a pressure differential by heating water to steam.

As low commodity prices continue, the risk increases that exploration and production companies without access to funding will struggle to meet their obligations to plug and abandon any suspended wells...

Brattle economists have authored a report that examines the landscape of emerging domestic distribution tariff design options in Great Britain (GB) and the impacts they may have on electricity consumers.

Synhelion has inaugurated its first industrial-scale solar fuels plant, DAWN, featuring a 20-meter-high tower and mirror field to produce synthetic, carbon-neutral fuels compatible with existing fossil-fuel infrastructure. This milestone marks a significant advancement in sustainable transportation...

On 23 March, The Supreme Court finally laid to rest the ongoing saga of whether or not it was legal for the Secretary of State for Climate Change to seek to introduce backdated cuts to FiT rates for solar PV.

The debate over using agricultural land to build solar farms has heated up over the past couple of years. But for some crops, this need not be an issue, according to a recent article.

Stuart Carter who heads up Fieldfisher's Oil and Gas Team, based in London, recently returned from the 22nd Africa Oil Week Conference where he met many of the delegates and speakers.

Research and development moves rapidly in the oil and gas industry. However, few could have foreseen the pace at which floating LNG (or FLNG) vessels are now becoming "commoditised".

The Irish Government‘s Green Paper on Energy entitled ‘Towards a Sustainable Energy Future for Ireland’ was published in October 2006. Many interested parties made submissions, including a proposal from the Commission for Energy Regulation (‘CER’) to establish an independent state-owned network company for electricity. The key element of this proposal, however, is that the proposed company be run on a ‘not for profit’ basis.

In our December 2013 edition, we reported on Sir Ian Wood's interim report on the offshore oil & gas industry in the UK.

The early wind farms in the UK came into operation in the mid/late 1990s.

A Statutory Instrument has been laid to expand the Investment and Cluster Area allowances to certain types of operating and lease expenditure, as first announced at Autumn Statement 2015.

The announcement earlier this week that the UK is to become the world's first "net zero aligned financial centre" has been widely reported across the UK media.

Roman Webber, UK head of oil & gas tax at Deloitte, the business advisory firm, comments on decommissioning initiatives announced in the 2012 Budget

The energy sector has been relatively slow to adopt blockchain technology.