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  • This fuel-free solar oven cooks on sunshine when you have it, electricity when you don’t 15 May 2026
    The GoSun Sport-E elevates solar ovens to genuinely useful cooking appliances with a unique hybrid designBaking Steel v Ooni v Gozney: I tested the three best pizza makers for home in the USSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsThe term “solar energy” may immediately conjure images of […]
    Alan Truly
  • Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, all states agree – except Queensland 12 May 2026
    State and federal energy ministers say investments in new renewable energy and storage should ‘fully offset’ new datacentres’ energy needsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPower hungry datacentres that are growing to meet the demands of artificial intelligence could be forced to invest […]
    Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent
  • ‘A share in the delight’: the people investing in the UK’s first community-owned solar battery 8 May 2026
    Oxfordshire’s Ray Valley Solar already generates clean energy for 7,000 homes, and is now crowdfunding storage to marry daylight with evening demandTucked away among hedgerows on a large field between a motorway and the River Ray, one of the UK’s largest community-owned solar parks is hard to spot from the surrounding country lanes.But the nearly […]
    Chloé Farand
  • Gas-fired power still looks a safe bet for Centrica in the renewables era 7 May 2026
    There will still be a need to have gas in the wings to keep the lights on, so the financials stack up on Severn plant purchaseThe eye-catching non-Hormuz news in energy-land last month was that Great Britain is set for a record-breaking summer for wind and solar power generation. The national energy system operator even […]
    Nils Pratley
  • How to drive progress on the green transition | Letters 7 May 2026
    Readers respond to an editorial on the need to speed up the shift to renewablesYour editorial is spot-on (The Guardian view on the green transition: politicians should speed it up – and households too, 4 May). Sadly many of the policies implemented by politicians are counterproductive, based on the fear of public backlash. Fossil fuel […]
    Guardian Staff