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- Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, agree all states except Queensland 12 May 2026State 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 2026Oxfordshire’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 2026There 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 2026Readers 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
- Both left and right are deluding themselves about the scale of the energy crisis Britain faces | Ewan Gibbs 7 May 2026Decades of complacency cannot be magicked away by drilling in the North Sea – or even by hoping that renewables will quickly power everythingEwan Gibbs is a historian of energy at the University of GlasgowFirst it was Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now it is the blockade of the world’s petroleum artery in the Gulf. […]Ewan Gibbs