Financing the future of on-site renewables
Founded in 2019, Shawton Energy has been building a model to accelerate corporate renewable adoption. Backed 50% by Lazard Asset Management and equipped with...
The Transition Trade-Offs: How to Deliver Affordable, Sustainable Energy
As the UK accelerates towards its 2030 clean power target (CP 2030), the energy sector faces a pivotal moment. The Review of Electricity Market...
SmartestEnergy launches graduate scheme to build future energy trading talent
SmartestEnergy has launched a new two-year graduate programme designed to train the next generation of energy traders.
The programme will launch out of SmartestEnergy’s London...
Shawton Energy stakes its claim in the funded solar market
From rooftop PPAs to virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs), Shawton Energy is carving out a reputation as a nimble, fully integrated provider capable of...
Energy legislation businesses need to be aware of
Multiple energy legislations have recently come into place, which may impact businesses. Google searches for “transmission network use of system charges” have increased by...
National Grid builds new control centre
National Grid is building a brand new, state-of-the-art control centre that will reinforce network resilience, uphold National Grid Electricity Transmission’s (NGET) world-class reliability standards...
SmartestEnergy celebrates 25 years
SmartestEnergy is celebrating 25 years helping Britain’s businesses and independent generators navigate the energy transition. SmartestEnergy’s puts its success over the last 25 years...
UK-based Fuse Energy passes $300M in annual recurring revenue… and its not AI
As the tech industry obsesses over AI, Fuse Energy has arguably become one of Europe's fastest-growing startups by tackling a challenge every UK household...
Co-op enters 7-year offshore wind PPA with RWE
Co-op has today announced that it is to enter a seven-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to utilise energy generated from a wind farm...
Marubeni and SmartestEnergy form new joint venture to power Japan’s electricity trading market
Marubeni Power Retail Corporation (MPR) and SmartestEnergy Limited, both subsidiaries of Marubeni Corporation, have launched Marubeni Power Trading Co., Ltd, a new joint venture...
Stagecoach in Oxford receives first of 55 new electric buses
Stagecoach has received the first vehicle in a delivery of 55 next-generation battery-electric double-decker Alexander Dennis buses for its operations in Oxford.
The zero-emission Enviro400EVs,...
Six Highlands hydro dams sold for £26.6 million
A total of 4.1 MW of hydro capacity across six Highland dams at least five years into their working lives changed ownership today, guaranteeing...
Octopus seeks Suomi wind and solar amid Northern lights
Fast-growing green power investor Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) is deepening its commitment to Finland.
Founded in 2010, the trust boasts generation assets across Europe...
PPA quotes online? Limejump jumps to it
Shell-owned clean generation integrator Limejump today introduces what it claims as Britain’s first online service enabling small generators to get the best PPA prices...
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...
Amazon backs Moray West & Ocean Winds with 473MW PPA
Data colossus Amazon has signed a corporate power purchase agreement with ENGIE, increasing its share of output from developer Ocean Winds’ Moray West venture...
EDF plugs in to market-leading PV & battery deal
Nuclear-to-renewables power supplier EdF has signed one of Britain’s biggest energy management deals, optimising revenues from a solar 66MWp farm and a 50MW grid-scale...
Co-op collects divi from ScottishPower’s solar PPA
Energy-to-food-to-burials supplier the Co-op Group has signed a PPA – power purchase agreement - to source electricity for its stores, funeral homes and depots...
PPA contracts: Getting the knowledge you need, when you need it
In recent years Power Purchase Agreements have gone from a niche product exchanged between expert parties to mass market electricity products.
Get it right and...
SSE Energy Solutions and Lloyds Banking Group sign new power purchase agreement
SSE Energy Solutions has agreed a new corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) with Lloyds Banking Group, helping the UK’s largest retail bank and financial...