Boom-free summer for bomb squad, defusing mines across offshore turbine site
Making safe unexploded World War II mines lingering under the North Sea across an imminent wind farm plot is the business of specialist contractors...
Judge rules global energy supplier hid broker commission
Energy claims specialist has helped recover thousands of pounds for a small amusement arcade business, after leading energy supplier Engie was found liable in...
Octopus leads V2G charge, plugs clients’ EVs into Balancing Mechanism
Octopus Energy has deepened its vehicle-to-grid experience, integrating electric cars owned by its customers into the National Grid’s Balancing Mechanism.
The BM uses flexible assets...
ESO’s £58 Billion price tag to add 86GW to Grid
Britain’s backbone network operator has published its expansion blueprint, designed to extend by 86GW the nation's transmission capacity in the run up to 2035.
The...
Tag’s & Harmony’s 49MW battery goes live near Perth
Clean energy firm TagEnergy and renewable infrastructure developer Harmony Energy’s Jamesfield battery energy storage system (BESS) has gone live today, following completion and commissioning.
The...
Peel & E.ON start work at Liverpool Docks on UK’s ‘biggest rooftop solar install’
Ports operator Peel Group is partnering with its power supplier E.ON to install what they expect to be Britain’s biggest roof-mounted solar PV system.
The...
GridBeyond’s latest white paper looks at risk and return for battery storage
Battery storage investors are witnessing a shifting landscape in the sector, navigating the complexities of tolls, floors, and merchant models. As the energy storage...
Join The Energyst at the MEUC Spring Conference & Exhibition
Join us and transform your utility management journey at Buying and Using Utilities Live, The Major Energy Users (MEUC’s) Spring Conference and Exhibition, taking...
‘Get on with it’, Lords committee orders Coutinho on long-term storage
The government lacks a viable plan to implementing vital utility-scale batteries accommodating more despatchable renewable power into Britain’s grid, an influential House of Lords...
UK Power Networks’ DSO launches Britain’s first distribution day-ahead Flex service
UK Power Networks’ Distribution System Operator (DSO) is to become the first network to offer a day-ahead flexibility product at distribution level.
The move comes...
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,...
Coutinho: New unabated gas ‘needed beyond 2030’; REMA needs local pricing
Energy secretary Clare Coutinho today pledged to build new CCGT power stations as replacements for ageing gas generators. The new plant, Coutinho accepts, is...
Net Zero projects secure £7.6 million to speed emissions cuts
Three collaborative R&D projects have been awarded funding from innovation agency Innovate UK to transform how Britain’s buildings are heated.
The body’s Net Zero Heat...
National Gas Metering pioneers hydrogen powered commercial kitchen
National Gas Metering achieved a major milestone in its hydrogen strategy with the commissioning of a commercial catering kitchen with appliances that will use...
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...
Ocean energy trial basks in success, seeks new markets’ response
A pioneering experiment linking ocean wave power and subsea batteries to run crucial marine equipment is celebrating success after 12 months of tests off...
The Energyst – Latest issue out now
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,...
Jaguar goes big on solar, seeks a quarter of its power from on-site arrays
Car maker Jaguar Land Rover is pushing ahead with ambitions to meet over a quarter of its electricity needs from self-developed renewables assets, sourcing...
GridBeyond secures 264MW in T-4 Capacity Market auction at a record high of £65/kW
GridBeyond secures 264MW in T-4 Capacity Market auction at a record high of £65/kW
The provisional results of the T-4 2027-28 Capacity Market auction were...
CHP delivers cost savings, energy security & reduces environmental impact for Tewkesbury Park...
At the height of the energy crisis, Tewkesbury Park, a privately-owned hotel, health club and golf resort in Gloucestershire, found its combined energy bills...