Notts ex-coal plant picked for nuke fusion trial
EDF’s former fossil-fuelled power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire is to host a pilot plant for nuclear fusion.
The government is providing £220 million...
Green hydrogen to help spin 2.2GW turbines? RWE ponders CCUS for Pembroke
Seizing the gas after combustion at the 2.2GW plant, and introducing hydrogen as a clean fuel, are among possibilities to be assessed.
Scheduled for completion...
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...
Lords to debate co-operatives’ local right of supply
The House of Lords will this week debate a proposal to allow local generators including community energy co-ops to retail clean power direct to...
1,000 London projects by 2030 targeted for citizen-owned renewables
Activists in London’s energy co-operatives have unveiled plans to spark up citizen-owned clean electricity generation on 1,000 buildings in the capital this decade, upping...
Net Zero goals “will be missed”, say MPs, as ministers’ claims holed by delivery...
Britain will miss government goals to strip all carbon from electricity generation by 2035, without a delivery plan to remedy incomplete, contradictory policy from...
Thanks a £ million: Power Roll gets Durham’s & EU’s cash to boost thin-film...
Sunderland-based solar electricity innovators Power Roll today benefit from a £1 million cash injection to expand production of their light, flexible thin film, billed...
ENW is first DNO to publish minigeneration hubs as small as 50kW
Electricity North West has become the first DNO to offer for public inspection its register of embedded capacity, listing all mini-generation plant in its...
US and Britain sign research accord on nuclear fusion
The UK and US last week signed a partnership to advance the development and commercialisation of nuclear fusion technology. Andrew Bowie, the UK’s minister...
Buy British to boost nuclear generation, and revive Wylfa, MPs urge
Britain’s nuclear expansion must be sourced from home-based suppliers, and must include reviving north Wales’ defunct Wylfa station, an industry-backed panel of MPs advocates...
AFC to debut world’s first ammonia-into-hydrogen pilot cracker
Fuel cell innovators AFC Energy have announced what they claim as the world’s biggest trial plant for producing low carbon hydrogen from ammonia.
Weekly output...
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...
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...
Sam’s vision: Midcounties teams with Big Solar Co-op to trim 5% from power bill
A store manager's initiative has led to one of Britain’s biggest co-operatively owned retailers partnering with The Big Solar Co-op in quest of cheaper,...
Stay safe, manage your power risks, urges UKPN
Britain’s biggest distributed network operator UK Power Networks is urging people to remember safety in 2024.
The company that provides regional power service to London,...
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,...
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...
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...