Fuse Energy has made its new plug-in solar and storage system, Jules, available for pre-order, with potential savings for UK households of £330 per year
Solar is currently the cheapest source of electricity in the UK, yet fewer than 10% of households across the country currently have solar panels.
That is a huge missed opportunity not only for Britons struggling with the cost of energy but for the UK Government, whose ambitious net zero goals depend on nationwide decarbonisation.
Fuse Energy, Europe’s fastest growing energy company, has a solution that could put solar power in the hands of millions more UK citizens.
The London-based firm has today announced that Jules, a first-of-its-kind plug-in solar and battery storage system, is now available for pre-order in the UK.
OVO’s senior leadership team has been restructured, with ex-E.ON executives Anthony Ainsworth named CEO, Christopher Shead as COO and Richard Brooks as CCO
OVO is undergoing a significant executive reshuffle following the completion of its acquisition by E.ON, with three senior appointments signalling a new chapter for the UK energy supplier.
Anthony Ainsworth, formerly Chief Operating Officer of E.ON UK’s industrial and commercial business, will take over as OVO’s CEO.
Christopher Shead, previously Director of Customer Operations at E.ON UK, becomes Chief Operating Officer, while former E.ON UK Finance Director Richard Brooks takes on the role of Chief Commercial Officer.
Anthony succeeds Chris Houghton, who returned to lead OVO’s retail energy business in November 2025 following spells at the company between 2014-2018 and 2020-2021.
The appointments follow the Competition and Markets Authority’s clearance of E.ON’s acquisition on 1 October 2026, with the transaction formally completed a week later. 
Rystad Energy’s Global Energy Scenarios 2026 finds energy security, not just climate policy, now sets the pace of the transition, led by electrification
In 2021, Russia supplied around 36% of Europe’s gas imports. By 2025, that figure had fallen to around 7.5% as a direct result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Over the same period, Europe's imports of American LNG rose from 6% to around 21%.
That shift helps to explain why the global energy system has coped with the Strait of Hormuz crisis better than many feared, according to a new report from Rystad Energy, one of Europe's foremost energy intelligence institutions.
Jon Ødegård Hansen, Senior Vice President and Head of Energy Systems at Rystad Energy, says the report was built around the uncertainty that has dominated global energy markets throughout much of the 2020s.
"Over the past five years, global energy markets have weathered two severe energy crises," he explains, referencing the Russia-Ukraine war and the US-Israel-Iran war.
"Both had long been seen as major risks to the global energy system, yet so far they have played out quite differently than many expected."
Shell and Equinor’s Adura joint venture wins consent for Jackdaw, as the UK weighs energy security against net zero ambitions after a lengthy legal battle
The UK Government has officially approved drilling in the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, ending years of legal and political wrangling.
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh authorised the regulator to grant consent to Adura, the Shell and Equinor joint venture that operates the field, located 150 miles east of the Aberdeenshire coast.
Adura expects production of gas to begin within a mere matter of weeks.
The Energy Secretary said the decision would support the country’s energy security with homegrown gas this winter, though several commentators have argued otherwise.
The Conservative government first approved Jackdaw in 2022, but the courts later found that the emissions from burning the gas had to be assessed before production could begin.
That Supreme Court ruling in the Finch case sent Jackdaw and the Rosebank oil field back through the regulatory process, which has taken years.
Before taking office in the summer of 2024, the Labour government had pledged not to approve new drilling licences in the North Sea, though this decision by the Burnham administration reneges on that initial promise.
Since succeeding Sir Keir Starmer this summer, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has repeatedly vowed to take a “pragmatic approach” to decisions over drilling in the North Sea, which has been a cause célèbre amongst environmentalists and energy insiders alike.
The UK's onshore wind applications have hit a peak, with RenewableUK welcoming the revival but Caeli warning grid access and site quality decide delivery
Developers are lodging plans for onshore wind farms in England at a rate not seen in ten years.
About 45 applications were submitted in the year to March 2026, according to an analysis of government data done recently by The Guardian.
That is the highest annual total since the Conservatives’ de facto ban on new onshore projects took hold in 2015.
Labour dropped the restrictions within days of taking power just over two years ago, with former Chancellor Rachel Reeves calling the Tory ban "absurd".
Since then, the effect on the planning pipeline has been stark.
Before the election in 2024, applications covered about 9MW of onshore wind a month in England, measured on a 12-month rolling average. By the start of this year, that figure had reached about 36MW a month.
The low point came before September 2023, when Conservative ministers first began easing planning rules and applications averaged around 1MW a month. 
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