Heat & Buildings Strategy: Johnson disappoints again

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s long awaited Heat & Buildings Strategy was this afternoon greeted with similar disappointment from energy campaigners and industry as the...

WPD pledges same day or next day hook-up of home heat pumps and EV...

Britain’s biggest DSO today committed itself to 48 hour maximum connection approvals of home heat pumps or EV chargers. Starting from 18 October, most applications...

Decarbonisation and the Future of Energy

Ahead of COP26, Veolia and The Energyst are hosting a webinar that will demonstrate real-world examples of carbon-reduction strategies and technologies that can aid an...

Latest edition of The Energyst available

The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App. The Energyst is now published monthly,...

Smart meters break 15 million barrier

Britain has seen its 15 millionth smart meter connected to the national network, transformation supervisors at the Data Communications Company have confirmed. Installation of a...

Morocco unbound: £16 billion green power pipe mooted to Devon giga-battery

British energy entrepreneurs Xlinks have unveiled ambitious plans to link solar and wind power generated in the Moroccan desert with UK power consumers via...

Would you Adam’n’Eve it? East London to get Britain’s ‘biggest’ heat network

Four boroughs straddling the Thames in London’s East End are set to benefit from a district heat network of up to 500,000 homes by...

SSE pots a deal to Stoke up UK’s first geothermal heat network

Britain’s first city heat network powered by hot rocks welcomed SSE into its kiln of Kilowatts today. IGas told investors it has signed a 12...

Hydrogen ‘safe’ in 20% blends over Keele’s pipes, trial decides

Advocates of hydrogen blended with conventional ‘natural’ gas to lessen harms from the methane-dependent fluid, were today celebrating the success of Britain’s first test...

Join The Energyst’s CPD accredited webinar Is your electrical infrastructure up to the task...

Preparing for net zero - is your electrical infrastructure ready? Register for The Energyst and Vattenfall's webinar that will examine how power-as-a-service can support an organisation in...

How can self-service empower utilities customers?

Using the self-service features of a field service portal enables you to drive field service customer satisfaction; helping customers, technicians, and operations alike. It’s no...

Kaluza and Innowatts ally to offer worldwide platform capability

Energy tech innovators Innowatts and Kaluza are uniting to broaden use of their complementary solutions in continent-spanning markets. Europe, where Innowatts seeks greater exposure, and...

Gazprom launches online tool for firms to track homeworkers’ power use

Falls in workplace energy consumption during Covid-19 lockdowns were almost completely offset by hiked home use, business supplier Gazprom Energy has calculated. Last year, average...

50,200 heat pump installers needed by 2030.  So let’s train them, say trade group.

Industry body the Heat Pump Association has this week launched a mass drive to train up installers needed to bring the low carbon technology...

Winter supply could be nearly constrained as last year, Grid warns

Nuclear and gas generator outages expected this winter could once again push availability over Britain’s power backbone to expensive short-term peaks, National Grid-ESO foresees. Issuing...

National Grid-ESO to be replaced by ‘more independent’ operator of Britain’s grid

Critics of the National Grid’s ambivalent ‘running with the fox, while hunting with the hounds’ status were vindicated today, as Beis ministers floated their...

The Energyst | Decarbonising industry and commerce – what are your ‘no regret’ first...

Date: Thursday 15th July 2021 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 Register here Synopsis: We explore strategies, data, procurement, energy efficiency; and ask if power purchase agreements are the right way to...

Enabling UK manufacturing’s green energy transition

Chris Rason, Managing Director at Aggreko UK, talks through how Energy as a Service (EaaS) models might help UK Manufacturers take control of their...

“Expensive” insulation means one-third of UK homeowners refuse to plug Europe’s leakiest homes: PWC

Payback lags averaging ten years on the builders’ bills needed to improve Europe’s leakiest homes are putting the Johnson government’s 2050 Net Zero goal...

NGP webinar offers insight into cutting energy, carbon and cost using energy management systems

NGP is inviting the industry to engage with a free-to-attend webinar which demonstrates how its energy management systems ClearVUE can help businesses gain greater...