Bluefield scoops AR4 CfD contracts for 62.4MW of new solar
British renewable investors Bluefield Solar Income Fund have announced their receipt of Contracts for Difference (CfDs) covering 62.4MW of new planned capacity through the...
WPD claims lead among DNOs with UK’s first “connectability pledge”
Britain’s grid operator serving the Midlands and Wales reckons it’s getting ahead of a major regulatory change in how DNOs charge for installing low-carbon...
H2 trick! Carlton nets third hub, secures consent for City’s green gas plant serving...
Manchester’s third hat-trick in 24 hours arrived this morning, as innovators Carlton Power announced planning clearance for the North West’s first low-carbon hydrogen hub.
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Carbon capture: Barclays & Clean Growth Fund cement £4.4 m deal with Queen’s, Belfast...
A Northern Irish start-up delivering a key enabling component in evolving carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes has won the cash backing of the...
NextEnergy Solar extends paw, takes Lion’s share of 250MW battery portfolio
Battery investment fund NextEnergy Solar (NESF) is set to pay £32.5 million for development rights on an unbuilt portfolio of two-hour grid-scale storage, set...
BP’s profits soar to $ 8.2bn in third quarter
Oil and gas supermajor BP beat analysts’ predictions for the year’s third quarter, this morning announcing profits of £ 7.1 billion/ $ 8.2 billion,...
UK falls from EY’s podium of 40 most attractive nations for clean energy cash
Britain has dropped one place to fourth – behind Germany, - among 40 major economies ranked by global consultants EY in their latest RECAI...
Gas operating profits rise fourfold at SSE during six months to September
Operating profits from the gas and thermal energy division alone of vertically integrated generator-retailer SSE soared to £248million on an adjusted basis in the...
Teachers strike in Scotland, eh?: Canucks pile on to a quarter of SSE’s pylons
Snowy-booted visitors from northern America today descended once again on the snowy-booted electricity engineers of north Britain, as a big Canadian public-sector pension fund...
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...
Government backs clean avgas firm Velocys with £29.5 million
Sustainable aviation fuel innovator Velocys today saw its share price surge 19%, as it celebrated securing two government grants totalling nearly £30 million in...
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...
Re-think EGL tax grab, or endanger renewables investment, REA tells Chancellor
The Chancellor’s imminent electricity generator levy (EGL) risks stalling or stifling hundreds of millions of new investment in renewables, Britain’s biggest lobbying body for...
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...
Tripling electricity demand by 2050 means re-thinking connectivity, says Vattenfall
Demand for grid connections will accelerate even beyond today’s constrictions, as mass electrification of heat and transport drives a possible tripling of UK power...
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...
Gridserve plugs in to £526 million of debt for expansion
Ultrafast EV chargers Gridserve have secured bankers' backing worth over half a billion pounds to accelerate the upgrade & expansion of its UK network.
The...
Brighton Energy co-op raises £700k in a month from small investors
The growing appetite of small UK investors to put their money into local volunteer-led local energy co-operatives was demonstrated again today, as one of...
Hot and hotter! Pump startup seeks partner, deploying high temperature heat to industry
Industrial heat pump startup Futraheat has secured £689,000 from Innovate UK to develop and deploy a commercial heat pump to deliver low CO2, high...
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...