On Saturday night (06.06.26), over 80,000 fans descended on London’s Wembley Stadium for one of the biggest parties of the summer – Capital’s Summertime Ball with Barclaycard.The Capital Breakfast hosts Jordan North, Sian Welby and Chris Stark were on hand to welcome the performers, but just which stars stole the show on the night? Source link
But Stark, Miliband’s pick to head his department’s efforts to replace nearly all fossil fuels in the U.K. energy system with solar, wind and other clean power by 2030, said that green transition would still involve deals with Beijing. “China will be present in the future energy system. Chinese tech will be present in the future energy system,” he said. “The question for us is the degree to which we want to see that happen, and where we want to see that happen.” He pointed to Chinese battery storage technology and solar panels as investment opportunities, “with the right conditions attached to them, so we don’t have slave labor [brought] to this country.” Batteries represent a technology where the U.K. “might actually want to invite the Chinese investment into this economy, because it is the best tech and chemistry in the world,” he said. Security decisions The government announced its decision in March to reject, on security grounds, Ming Yang’s proposed factory for building turbines. On the same day, the government backed a different wind …
It’s a scenario that Miliband and Starmer want to avoid in future by focusing on producing electricity from domestic sources like offshore wind that are not subject to the ups and downs of global fossil fuel markets. Trump, by contrast, wants to keep Europe hooked on gas — specifically, American gas. The U.S. National Security Strategy, updated late last year, states Trump’s desire to use American fossil fuel exports to “project power.” Trump has already strong-armed the European Union into committing to buy $750 billion worth of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a quid pro quo for tariff relief. No one in Starmer’s government explicitly named Trump or the U.S. on Wednesday. But Chris Stark, a senior official in Miliband’s energy department tasked with delivering the 2030 goal, noted that “every megawatt of offshore wind that we’re bringing on is a few more metric tons of LNG that we don’t need to import.” The U.K.’s investment in offshore wind also provides welcome relief to a global industry that has been seriously shaken both by soaring …
