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Recent $74m investment made alongside assessment that 10% of electricity could be generated by geothermal by 2050

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2023, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.

Minister says technology to collect energy and beam it to Earth could help boost UK’s energy security

Recent breakthroughs have been wildly hyped – but there’s still reason to hope

Wind, water and solar energy is cheap, effective and green. We don’t need experimental or risky energy sources to save our planet

The influential academic says renewables alone can halt climate crisis, with technologies such as carbon capture expensive wastes of time

Nothing is produced at Sellafield any more. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one

Britain seeks to convert recycled uranium, a capability not currently available outside Russia

Last week’s experiment in the US is promising, but it’s not a magic bullet for our energy needsThe revelation that researchers had succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction that generated more energy than it consumed...

Nothing is produced at Sellafield anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one

Prototype designed using chemical in crustacean shells remains 99.7% efficient after about 400 hours

Experts cite Scottish example, with turbines along roads and rail lines, as a way to make better use of ‘cheap, clean’ energy source

Study suggests the renewable source could meet 140% of the UK and Ireland’s energy demand

Four storage solutions to help Britain keep the lights on deep into the future

Engineers explore using gentle slopes rather than steep dams or mountains to store electricity