Energy analysts have criticised Tory plans to effect the biggest shake-up of Britain's energy policy in a generation as "verging on the impossible".

Residents who allow wind farms to be built in their area would be given ownership of individual turbines and the profits from them under Conservative energy plans.

Gordon Brown's plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations to plug the UK's energy gap received a setback yesterday when talks for a 12bn takeover of the nuclear group British Energy collapsed.

The economic downturn will not affect government plans to create a new generation of nuclear power stations, the energy minister will today confirm.

Clegg's rather badly thought out energy policy yesterday has already been trumped by the rather more practical and down to earth plans launched today by Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne on introducing energy discount cards. The Tory plans will help around 4,000,000 people with energy bills and largely those on the bottom of the income scale. The Citizens Advise Bureau thinks its brilliant an...

Households and businesses will soon have a far greater incentive to install solar panels and wood-fired boilers and use other forms of renewable energy as the government announces new payments for home energy generation

British families could be forced to pay up to £227 extra on their annual energy bills to help to fund a new generation of nuclear power stations under plans proposed by the French company expected to build most of them. EDF Energy, which wants to build four reactors in Britain at a cost of

Gordon Brown's plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations to plug the UK's energy gap received a setback yesterday when talks for a 12bn takeover of the nuclear group British Energy by the French power giant EDF collapsed just hours before the deal was due to be announced.

David Cameron has launched what he described as the biggest shake-up of Britain's energy policy in a generation, as he set out Conservative proposals to mobilise the massive investment needed to secure supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions

Every town would have a technical school to train a generation of children as builders plumbers and tradesmen under Tory plans announced by Michael Gove the Shadow Schools Secretary.