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.  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...

Aurora: Hydrogen can meet half of UK energy demand

Hydrogen produced from both renewables and methane can meet 48 per cent of UK final energy demand by 2050, calculates Aurora Energy Research. Green hydrogen...

Drax to trial Mitsubishi’s biomass-with-carbon-capture tech

Britain’s biggest biomass burner Drax is to pilot new biomass energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from this autumn. The...

SEEIT energy efficiency fund placing oversubscribed, raised to £110m

Listed energy efficiency fund SEEIT has increased a placing to £110m after the initial £60m sought was oversubscribed. "In light of our offer being significantly...

Simec Atlantis waste-to-energy burn tests “couldn’t have gone better”

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems says industrial burn tests of the waste-derived pellets to Simec Atlantis plans to use at Uskmouth Power station "couldn't have...

Hydrogen fuel cells ‘set for takeoff’ after first UK test flight

A company planning to enable commercial hydrogen-powered flights by 2023 yesterday completed the UK’s first 'commercial scale' electric test flight. The flight, from Cranfield in...

V2G benefits ‘much bigger than FFR and arbitrage’

Non-cash benefits from vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology look set to exceed revenues based solely on power aggregation and trading, automotive energy researchers Cenex believe. It claims...

Gore Street acquires 50MW Ferrymuir battery project, eyes more in Scotland

Gore Street energy storage fund is to acquire another 50MW battery storage project following a fresh injection of funds. The Ferrymuir project in Fife, Scotland,...

Simec Atlantis gets nod for first 12MW of Normandy tidal power

Simec Atlantis has taken a step towards first megawatts of tidal power off Normandy after getting approval from authorities to transfer a 12MW development...
Rolls Royce's vision of how a small nuclear reactor might look. The report acknowledges Rolls Royce's support.

Take nuclear option or blow net zero, warns Energy Systems Catapult

Britain may have to spend big on next generation nuclear to secure Net Zero, adding between 10GW and 50GW before 2050, innovation think tank...