Dr Simon Evans is the deputy editor and policy editor for Carbon Brief. Simon covers climate and energy policy. He holds a PhD in biochemistry from Bristol University and previously studied chemistry at Oxford University. He worked for environment journal The ENDS Report for six years, covering topics including climate science and air pollution.
IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’
Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
August 19, 2025
Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record
The UK’s solar farms and rooftops generated more electricity than ever before in the first five months of 2025, as the country enjoyed its sunniest spring on record.
June 5, 2025
Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high
The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down.
May 21, 2025
UK’s electricity was cleanest ever in 2024
The UK’s electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, new Carbon Brief analysis shows, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade.
January 8, 2025
China’s emissions have now caused more global warming than EU
China’s historical emissions within its borders have now caused more global warming than the 27 member states of the EU combined, according to new Carbon Brief analysis.
December 2, 2024
Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals
The outlook warns that decisionmakers “too often entrench the flaws in today’s energy system, rather than pushing it towards a cleaner and safer path”. It adds: “[L]ocking in fossil fuel use has consequences…the costs of climate inaction…grow higher by the day.”
October 28, 2024