There's a £50 billion pound risk to the UK if we don't reduce our reliance on volatile imported gas, Emma Pinchbeck tells Amol Rajan. Energy UK | BBC Radio 4 Today | Office for Budget Responsibility

A thorough explanation of the importance of heat pumps to meeting Net Zero targets by Alto Energy Limited - the company set up by...er, climate sceptic Rupert Lowe MP of Reform UK. altoenergy.co.uk/blog/heat-pump… Excellent story by DeSmog / Sam Bright here - desmog.com/2024/08/27/ref…

Headlines you never expected to see in ⁦⁦The Telegraph⁩ - which today reports on the amazing deals car buyers can get on nearly new EVs. By resident motoring expert ⁦Alex Robbins⁩ telegraph.co.uk/cars/hybrid-el…

While clean energy is the future, we need to protect the most vulnerable now by ensuring homes are more energy efficient, says Caroline Flint. @BBCToday | Amol Rajan

NEW: July heat pump figures from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: ⬆️ Double the installs of this time last year 🥈 3,000 installations, the second highest month ever 👩‍🏭 Industry should step up to enable progress Jess Ralston | ECIU

Is the Chancellor planning a 5p rise in fuel duty? A rise may be coming despite consumers already being ripped off £1.6 billion at the fuel pump. Simon Williams explains to Nick Ferrari. The RAC | LBC | Competition & Markets Authority

The global airline fleet will double in the next 20 years, but the sector's plans for weaning itself off fossil fuels look weak, Matt Finch, the UK head of campaign group Transport & Environment tells Theo Leggett bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“Robert Jenrick says ‘There's no points for winning the decarbonisation battle’…. I'm sorry, there ARE” ED GEMMELL, Leader, The Climate Party tells Jacob Rees-Mogg there is a massive economic prize for leading global innovation in clean energy. The Climate Party | GB News

This is a solar powered Teabot. It is used to harvest the top of the tea bushes at Tregothnan, England’s only tea plantation.🍃☀️

Drax, the UK’s top CO2 emitter, hit with a £25 million penalty after an Ofgem probe finds it failed to provide accurate data. It sounds a lot until you realise it has received £7bn in subsidy payments since 2012. 🪵🏭 @GBN | Nigel Farage MP

⚡️Used electric cars are now flying off the shelves after costs fell in line with diesel and petrol vehicles. 🚗Matt Cleevely at Cleevely Ev says he's struggling to stock his showroom. 🛞It comes as polling from ECIU shows that most drivers still have poor knowledge of EVs.

To fix the water industry, it's time to take away the profit motive and concentrate on delivering a good service, Ashley Smith tells Alexis Conran. Windrush WASP | Times Radio

Highlights Biggest ever auction. 3GW massive amount of solar Biggest floating offshore wind project in world 3.5GW of new offshore wind, 1.6GW of AR4 offshore through (5.1GW total). 1GW onshore £58m for offshore wind £50 for onshore   assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66d5c7ee…

Grim-chi? Are grim times coming for kimchi? Climate change is putting South Korea’s famous kimchi at risk. The area of cabbage farmed is now less than half what it was 20 years ago, with fears plantings of the crop will seriously decline in the future. reut.rs/3z4FqJq

Pay-per-mile plans have been written into Treasury proposals for 20 years without success - it'd be a very difficult thing to do, James Court tells Emily Carver and Patrick Christys. EVA England | GB News

Many public charging stations are too expensive, but drivers can just as easily get ripped off at their local petrol station, Quentin Willson tells Jacob Rees-Mogg and Kelvin MacKenzie. GB News

This summer was the coolest in nine years, but how much colder actually was it? Meteorologist Dr Rob Thompson speaks to Steve Holden. Uni of Reading | Reading Meteorology | LBC News

The Government has greenlit 131 new renewable projects in this weeks latest energy auction. Tim Crosland of Plan B Earth tells Jacob Rees-Mogg that this investment is a must because North Sea oil and gas fields are "deeply depleted." GB News | #DefendOurJuries

NEW: August car sales figures from SMMT 🚗 Almost 1 in 4 new cars sold are electric (22.6%) 📈 A 10% year on year rise since last August 🛢️ Petrol car sales drop by 10% 🎯 Sales beat Government target for the first time this year Colin Walker | ECIU

£12.5 billion has been taken out of water companies and put into the pockets of international shareholders Ewan McGaughey tells Nick Ferrari. Going to the governments and banks of: China 🇨🇳 Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 Singapore 🇸🇬 America 🇺🇸 LBC | King's College London