Yesterday (Tuesday) we got rather fixated on Labour proposals to take ‘control’ of energy, although quite what that meant beyond allowing public/private partnerships for grid connections and taking a share of some projects under another ‘Great British’ logo were unclear.

In a speech today (Tuesday) at the Labour Party Conference, the current Prime Minister (we’ve had a few of late) will unveil (after careful leaking first) the vague outline of something to do with a nationalised grid, or part public ownership, or a quango or perhaps even some form of greater regulatory control.

An EV battery can continue delivering value long after its life in a vehicle, creating circularity, it can be reused or its materials recovered.

More than 3.5TW of global wind and solar capacity is currently operational, but all good things come to an end, and 2.5 TW of projects will face being degraded by the 2040s, leaving owners with the choice of abandoning the sites, investing to extend its life, or renew.

The latest figures for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) up to the end of August have been published by DESNZ.

Extreme heat is a business risk as much as a human one, shaping operational continuity, productivity and long-term resilience. However, according to the WEF, around half of companies globally have yet to make any assessment and just 28 per cent have piloted or scaled up interventions.

Waitrose has updated its Good Health logo to show positive nutrition and ingredient transparency.

Energy cost are rising, with wholesale gas prices surging as the conflict in the Gulf continues, but there is a silver lining to the clouds: electricity prices in Britain are rising much more slowly, and may have begun their long-awaited decoupling from gas prices.

Electric trucks deliver a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) in six out of nine major EU markets, which together account for 46 per cent of all new heavy trucks sold in the EU, a new T&E report shows.

New Look, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Oxfam and Circle-8 have created The Circuit, a new collaborative model bringing together retailers, textile recovery partners, automated sorting, recyclers, digital innovators and manufacturers to help build new circular textile value chains.

Insurer Aon has launched of its Global Onshore Renewables Facility, an insurance solution for the growing investment in renewable energy infrastructure.

New research on global electricity systems shows that whilst emissions are being lowered and electric generation is now more diversified, it is also increasingly expensive.