Steven Chu, the former United States Secretary of Energy, and co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics, believes lithium metal sulphur batteries will make electric vehicles as cheap as even “modest” combustion engine cars. Chu, now a professor at Stanford’s physics department, is part of a team working on lithium sulphur batteries. Chu thinks Read more…
ESCOs, EPCs and EaaS: are the FAANGs set to bite utilities?
Steven Fawkes outlines how energy service companies are gravitating towards energy as a service (EaaS) models – and suggests internet giants are well placed to make inroads into the utilities’ turf Usually when we talk about Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) we mean companies that deliver energy efficiency upgrades through Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) that provide Read more…
Ofgem chases Robin Hood Energy for £9m in overdue payments
Ofgem has ordered Nottingham Council-owned Robin Hood Energy to pay £9.4m in overdue Renewables Obligation payments before the end of the month. The regulator is also chasing three other small suppliers for money. Toto Energy owes £4,555,880, Gnergy owes £637,876, Delta Gas and Power owes £91,937. Ofgem said it believes the four are “likely to Read more…
Delivering Net Zero: Unlocking the opportunity
Delivering Net Zero is the challenge and the opportunity of our times. Businesses and public sector organisations will be tasked with much of the heavy lifting. How do we get there? The Energyst is bringing together business and industry to discuss how to deliver Net Zero on 28/29 April 2020 at Silverstone. Delivering Net Zero: Heat Read more…
Capacity Market: Sara Bell on what happens next
Tempus Energy CEO Sara Bell says companies that hold Capacity Market agreements will know whether or not they will get paid before the year-end. The company is challenging the government in the high court in a bid to enforce the European Court of Justice’s ruling that the Capacity Market is unlawful. Bell wants to stop Read more…