Royal London consolidates FM with Mitie, targets energy efficiency gains
Royal London has consolidated FM services with Mitie under a five-year deal.
The insurance giant is aiming to achieve at least 10 per cent energy...
Gresham House spends £20m on Arenko’s 41MW Bloxwich battery
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has completed the 41MW Bloxwich battery storage facility acquisition from Arenko, taking its operational portfolio to 215MW.
Commissioned 12 months...
Demand hits new low, Grid deals with it
Demand on the transmission system hit 13.4GW, a new low last weekend, but National Grid ESO managed without calling on its new footroom service.
"The...
My work here is done: Limejump CEO Erik Nygard exits
Limejump CEO Erik Nygard will leave the aggregator in September with new COO Catherine Newman to take the reins on an interim basis.
Nygard led...
Drax faces threat of strike vote over redundancies
Drax is facing the prospect of a workforce vote for its first ever strike, over allegations of ‘bad faith’ surrounding more than 200 compulsory...
Equinor to decarbonise Hull with hydrogen, if government provides right deal
Norwegian-state owned Equinor is planning to build a 600MW hydrogen production plant near Hull.
The facility will turn methane, also called natural gas, into hydrogen...
AFC Energy raises £32m to scale hydrogen fuel cells
Hydrogen fuel cell developer AFC Energy has raised £31.6 million in new capital in a bid to scale.
The firm plans to make bigger units:...
Ireland lighting firm eEnergy targets £1bn UK schools market with RSL buy
Both firms provide funded lighting solutions, though eEnergy also provides broader energy efficiency and management under an energy-as-a-service banner.
The all-share deal will see eEnergy...
Rapid EV charging network Engenie rebrands to Osprey
Rapid electric vehicle charging network Engenie is to rebrand as Osprey.
The firm has to date installed 150 rapid chargepoints at 100 locations. It counts...
An ale called Gale: BrewDog 100 per cent wind powered from July
BrewDog will brew its beers from wind power from mid-July.
The company last month outlined plans to invest in three turbines totalling 2.4MW.
The move is...
Swiss-Re backed carbon removal market targets gigaton scale-up
A marketplace matching corporates trying to decarbonise with carbon negative materials producers is bidding to remove gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Early clients...
Aldi picks Shell’s NewMotion for EV chargers
Aldi has picked Shell's NewMotion division to install EV chargers at all new UK stores.
The deal will see 140 chargers initially installed, with potential...
Yorkshire Water seeks bidders to build 150 solar arrays
Yorkshire Water is seeking bidders to deliver 150 solar PV arrays across its sites.Â
It has opened the tender for a new eight year framework,...
EDF partners with Octo for 200MW solar-storage push
EDF Renewables has partnered with developer Octo Energy in a bid to find and develop sites for co-located solar and storage.
The two will be...
Peel and Powerhouse push on with plastic to hydrogen plan
Peel plans to back up to 11 plastic-to-hydrogen parks via a partnership with PowerHouse Energy.
Peel is PowerHouse’s landlord at Protos Energy Park in Cheshire...
McDonald’s to install rapid chargers at drive-thrus across UK
McDonald's has inked a partnership with InstaVolt to install rapid chargers at its drive thru restaurants.
The companies did not release details on numbers or...
Mitie posts profit rise, buys Interserve FM unit, continues EV push
Buildings services firm Mitie, on track to operating the UK’s biggest corporate EV fleet, today confirmed its £271m takeover of rival Interserve’s facilities management...
CCC: End ICE age by 2032, re-skill Britain ‘before climate window closes’
Advancing the UK’s ban on sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles to 2032 - three years earlier than planned - is among urgent...
Smart charging firm ev.energy wins UKPN flex contracts, eyes BM next
Smart charging platform ev.energy had 14 bids accepted by UK Power Networks in its latest flexibility procurement round.
The firm’s technology optimises EV charging times...
Good Energy takes majority stake in Zap Map
Good Energy has taken a majority stake in Zap Map. The green energy company already held a 12.9 per cent stake following a deal...