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Electric car charging on London street.

Analysis: UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises

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 ga... Read More

Renewables | Jan 2. 2026.
Wind mills along the A9 trunk road in Caithness, Scotland.

Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator

A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to modelling by the National Energy Sy... Read More

UK policy | Dec 11. 2025.
The giant Kooragang Coal Loader at Port Newcastle Australia.

IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned

The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge in political support for coal, oil and gas, according to data fr... Read More

Renewables | Nov 12. 2025.
Chief executive of the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC), Emma Pinchbeck. Credit: Carbon Brief

The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Climate Change Committee’s Emma Pinchbeck

Emma Pinchbeck has been the chief executive of the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) since November 2024. The committee is a statutory body cr... Read More

Interviews | Oct 16. 2025.
Coal being transported by rail, Australia.

IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries

More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports and saved hundreds of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in renewab... Read More

Renewables | Oct 9. 2025.
Offshore windfarm, UK.

Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Electricity demand on the island of Great Britain has been fully covered by the output of clean-energy sources for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date,... Read More

Renewables | Sep 29. 2025.

Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power

Solar power is already providing the “cheapest electricity in history” and is expected to play a pivotal role in the global transition away from ... Read More

Factchecks | Aug 28. 2025.
The largest single shared energy storage power station in China in Delingha City, Qinghai Province.

Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025

Clean-energy growth helped China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend th... Read More

China Policy | Aug 21. 2025.
A solar park in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new forecasts from th... Read More

Renewables | Jul 31. 2025.
Aerial view of a wind farm in Scotland, UK.

Climate change could make ‘droughts’ for wind power 15% longer, study says

Extreme “wind droughts” that reduce power output from turbines for extended periods could become 15% longer by the end of the century across much... Read More

Renewables | Jul 30. 2025.
Wind and solar farm, Germany.

UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’

The global energy transition is now “unstoppable” due to “smart economics”, UN secretary-general António Guterres has said in an online spee... Read More

Renewables | Jul 22. 2025.
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