Deputy PM wants to more than quadruple industry, but critics say lack of clear targets is holding back confidence

Investors are being offered a stake in a new solar-energy plant serving a village that has a long history of pioneering new forms of power generation.

Shadow chancellor accuses George Osborne of anti-green agenda

New scheme aims to harness people power to raise profits from renewable energy

The Thames Estuary construction will generate enough energy to power most homes in Kent

Go-ahead given as Ofgen report warns that risk of energy blackouts has  tripled in past year

Radical move could seriously curb growth of onshore wind power provision

Tim Yeo, who tabled the amendment, left disappointed, but said high level of support would make it harder for coalition to "water down" targets on renewable energy in future

MPs will now try to force into the Energy Bill a target date for cleaning up the power sector

A saving of £45bn should be good news,  but the study’s conclusions clash with the pursuit of gas

The founder of Britain’s first green electricity provider has accused the Coalition of risking the UK’s future energy security through a “disastrous” inconsistency in policies. Ecotricity boss Dale Vince accused the Government of hugely undermining confidence among potential investors, who are desperately needed to finance an essential overhaul of the UK’s energy infrastructure at a cost of around about £200bn over the next decade.

Scientists have harnessed the principles of photosynthesis to develop a new way of producing hydrogen – in a breakthrough that offers a possible solution to global energy problems.

An Italian court ordered €1.3bn in mafia assets to be seized from Sicily’s “Lord of the wind” today – the largest such confiscation in the country’s history.

A Swiss adventurer plans to fly his featherweight jumbo jet across America fuelled only by the energy of the Sun