Full coverage: Energy

Ronan Doherty was among the founders of ElectroRoute, the energy trading company fully acquired by Mitsubishi last year. He explains where his business sits in the increasingly interconnected electricity grid required to power Europe without fossil fuels.

GridBeyond’s CEO Michael Phelan discusses how the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine has altered the way businesses procure electricity and weigh up solar and batteries investments – and questions the future of gas in the energy transition.

Finance and contractors are in place for the major infrastructure project destined to replace peak gas-fired generation with overseas renewable or nuclear electricity. Thomas Hubert reports from Paris.

The family-owned fuel retailer saw a 57 per cent bounce in profits last year, but it is changing tack as it tries to get ahead of the transition to electric vehicles. Brian Donaldson, Maxol's chief executive, talks about its play for the forecourt of the future.

There has been much focus on the added capacity needed to meet peak electricity demand, while the public is invited to moderate power usage at crunch times. For commercial users, however, this is already an organised business, as industry representative Siobhán McHugh explains.

The Norwegian state-owned renewable energy group continues to pour cash into Ireland, with more details now emerging on its broadening range of interests – including a stated ambition to lead offshore wind here.

The energy support package had to balance two competing objectives: protect households while limiting our energy use. It's designed so that budgets bend, but do not break.

Through Electric Ireland, the ESB is firing out huge electricity bills to households. Yet in the first half of the year, it made €390m. How does the ESB make money, and how does it justify rising bills?

Dublin-born billionaire engineer David McMurtry is working with the next generation – including an Irishwoman – on the future of all these things. In exclusive interviews, he and the executives leading Renishaw's latest projects talk past, present and future.

The energy storage business has been growing in tandem with intermittent renewable supply. It can also offer a quick fix to insufficient network capacity – as long as it doesn’t replace necessary upgrades.