Energy industry
Business
UK’s smart meter targets leaving energy users short-changed, says Martin Lewis
Energy customers are being short-changed by “perverse” government targets to install electronic smart meters in homes across the UK, according to the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis.Lewis, the founder and...
Business
Oil demand growing at slowest rate since height of pandemic, says IEA
The world’s demand for oil is growing at its slowest pace since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Business
Grangemouth oil refinery to close by end of June, putting 500 jobs at risk
The owners of the Grangemouth oil refinery have confirmed it will shut by the end of June next...
Artificial intelligence (AI)
BP extends use of AI in five-year deal with spy tech firm Palantir
The oil and gas supermajor BP is to use artificial intelligence to speed up the decision-making of its...
Business
Oil firms vow to fight judicial review of North Sea oil and gas projects
Two of Europe’s biggest oil companies have vowed to fight two legal cases brought by environmental campaigners against...
‘This is the future’: why turbines that float could be the new wave in British wind power
Head 10 miles out from the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland and a cluster of five giant wind turbines spin at a height of...