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London’s Khan goes halves with private finance, seeks £100 million of EDGE decarb projects

The capital’s mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a new £100 million fund to accelerate London-wide decarbonisation ventures, in partnership with leading green investor Sustainable...

National Grid pledges £2.7m of solar PV to ‘challenged’ schools: two save £3.5k in...

Schools wanting radically to axe bills & carbon emissions by installing solar PV panels are to receive new funding from National Grid’s regional DNO...

Schools “need £5.4 Billion” for solar PV & LEDs, if Net Zero is to...

Photo credit: to National Grid/ Solar for Schools Britain’s 29,000 schools need up to £5.4 billion invested in lighting upgrades and on-roof solar power generation,...

Octopus and UK Infrastructure Bank entwine, eager to splash cash

State-backed but operationally independent green investor, Leeds-based lender the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) today laid the cornerstone for funds providing ‘second stage’ capital for...

Decarbonising social homes: NW & W Midlands lead, South East & West woeful

New government statistics show that delivery of projects to strip out carbon from public housing under the government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) remains...

Merseyside WTE plant for Eqtec and Anaergia

Hydrogen and biofuels firm Eqtec is partnering up to build a multi-input waste-to-energy plant at Southport’s Hybrid Energy Park, Merseyside. The technology innovators announced this...

Nukes: French see Olkiluoto 3 feeding Finns’ grid ‘in January’; Rolls-Royce SMRs ‘fully funded’

The 12-year-delayed nuclear forerunner of Hinkley Point C is expected to be pumping power into its nation’s grid late next month, according to an...

D-ESNZ approves NGrid’s Yorkshire GREEN upgrade

Energy secretary Claire Coutinho has granted a development consent order (DCO) for the Yorkshire GREEN Energy Enablement project, clearing the way for National Grid...

New green steel capacity ‘can turbocharge Ukraine’s post-war recovery’; say Oxford researchers

As investors & politicians meet today in Berlin to discuss rebuilding a Ukraine freed of Putin’s psychopathy, innovators at Oxford University say low-carbon steel...

Johnson Matthey pump £80 million into Hertfordshire H2 fuel cell factory

Metallurgy and clean tech innovators Johnson Matthey are to build an £80 million plant in Hertfordshire, scaling up production of proton exchange membrane (PEM)...

Zenobē reaches financial close on Phase 1 of world’s first 300 MW battery hooked...

Ground is being broken at Blackhillock, between Aberdeen & Inverness, to deliver the first 200MW of a planned 300MW storage project.  Zenobē say it’s...

Octopus to Canada’s civil servants: ‘Ta for your $300 million. More coming, eh?’

Christmas arrived early today for Octopus Energy Group, as Britain’s fast-growing generator-retailer commanding nearly 6% of domestic power accounts welcomed a $300 million equity...

Estuary ingress: Cool new Dartford subber pumps 2GW into 1.5 million homes

A new state-of-the-art 400kV substation at Littlebrook near Dartford is now fully energised, National Grid have confirmed. The facility enables transmission of up to 2GW...

Switch2 Energy celebrates wins at two industry awards

Yorkshire-based Switch2 Energy, a provider of district and community heating systems, has been honoured with two prestigious awards. The Shipley-headquartered company’s ICON connected heat interface...

Infrastructure Bank offers councils £4 billion for heat networks, as D-BEIS warms three towns’...

More than £30 million from public funds is set to benefit heat networks in Hull, Peterborough & Wigan. Projects in the first two cities are...

Britain “has 40 fossil fuel projects awaiting planners’ approval before 2025”

The UK has a pipeline of at least 40 major projects in oil, gas or coal extraction and refining awaiting planning consent, environmental analysts...

Ethex celebrates 10 years, aims for £200 million by 15th birthday

Impact investment platform Ethex is celebrating its first decade of putting £120 million of small investors’ cash to good use in green energy and...

ScottishPower seeks biggest ever supply round worth £5.4bn

ScottishPower has unveiled £5.4bn worth of contract opportunities as it launches its next phase of electricity network investment.   A boost early in 2024 by...
SSE's Keadby power station: 735MW back online from 9 November.

Planners green-light Britain’s biggest battery, and first CCUS plant in Lincs

Innovative generation projects on opposite sides of Britain have this week received planning approval, speeding innovation in the nation’s dispersal and deployment of practical...

World’s biggest ohm game near Old Trafford: Manchester nets globe’s biggest grid-scale battery

Energy infrastructure developer Carlton Power this morning announced it has won planning approval to install the world’s biggest known electricity storage device on a...