All driller, no filler: National Grid “not boring“ in south London anymore
The less interesting lower half of Britain’s capital city witnessed at the weekend an end to boring to aid flows of backbone electricity –...
Energy firms’ net zero plans blown off track by the energy crisis
Eighty percent of business leaders from UK and Ireland in the energy sector believe the energy crisis will impact their organisation’s ability to meet emissions...
BP chief Looney quits overnight
Bernard Looney, chief executive of BP since 2020, stepped down last night from the £10 million per year post, after confessing to inadequate candour...
EGL2 mega-connector wins Anglo-Scots planners’ green light
Britain’s biggest current network improvement project, the Eastern Green Link 2 subsea cable running for 291 miles under the North Sea, has secured planning...
Decarbonising industrial heat: The technologies of today and tomorrow
By Paul Miller, Sales and Marketing Director at Drax
Across an average year, industrial carbon emissions account for around 29% of global greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Broke, and broker: 3 million SMEs suffer in contact with tariff intermediaries, Octopus poll...
A poll released today by Octopus Energy for Business finds approximately 3.2 million small businesses have emerged bruised in their dealings with energy tariff...
Car decarb minister Norman urged to act on 300k charging target
Green motoring campaigners have urged decarbonisation minister Jesse Norman to add his name to moves aimed at speeding up Whitehall’s flagging drive towards 300,000...
Gore Street chooses EDF to run British third battery
Energy investment innovators Gore Street Energy Storage Fund have chosen French-owned EDF to optimise clean power trades from its new 80MW battery.
Located at Stony,...
Pylons, to a T: all of Hinkley C’s new Ts R now in place
National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project has reached another milestone, with the linking up of all 116 of its new T-pylons, designed to replace the...
Plant hire partners puff hydrogen gensets for building sites
Surrey-based AFC Energy last year launched its H-Power Generators, designed to offer zero emissions electricity to run drills, lifts and tools on building sites.
Later...
Solar energy innovators Naked buff up with Baltic partners
British solar engineering innovators Naked Energy have signed their latest European distribution deal with Axioma Service, Lithuania‘s leading provider of comprehensive engineering services.
Linking generation of electricity...
How can policy intervention add an extra boost to the UK’s growing heat pump...
The heating industry is at a crossroads with a period of exciting policy led growth for heat pumps on the horizon. However, with the...
UKRI boosts sustainable energy research with £53 million
Taxpayer-supported grant giver UK Research & Innovation is helping energy-related research at six centres, with £53 million of new money.
Greater complexities in power distribution,...
Em(sea)-bedded carbon: “Strong appetite” for marine CCUS hubs, Crown Estates find
Developers north & south of the Border are eager to use Britain’s seabed as sites for carbon capture, use & storage (CCUS), a poll...
Cornwall: “Wait to late 2030s for a return to pre-Covid prices”
Respected energy economists Cornwall Insight expect no return to pre-Covid power prices before the late 2030s at the earliest.
Despite Europe’s & the world’s continuing...
SPEN hoists Ensign, flags up Grid’s £10 million “digital twin”
Scots universities & SP Energy Networks are teaming up to develop an AI-enabled ‘digital twin’ of the nation’s power networks.
In a British first, UK...
New Energy Flexibility report
The NEW 2023 Energy Flexibility Report published by The Energyst in partnership with Power Responsive, drax, epexspot & Gridimp is now available.
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E.On Next fined £5 million for wasting half a million customers’ time
Home power retailer E.ON Next Energy is to pay £5 million in compensation for poor standards of customer service, in consequence of repeated probes...
What are the Most Effective Energy Efficiency Upgrades for Your Home?
Energy efficiency has become a prevailing subject for homeowners and households in the UK. The severity of the climate crisis has grown increasingly clear,...
London’s Mayor & Arup announce “Roofs Designed to Cool” plan to fend off heat
A big expansion of solar panels in Britain’s capital city, with buildings retrofitted to reflect summer heat, are the centrepiece of a study by...