Ofgem brokers £350m loan to help keep energy suppliers afloat
Ofgem has effectively facilitated a £350m loan in a bid to help energy suppliers stay afloat as Covid-19 hits severely impacts revenue.
Keen to flatten...
WPD offers free bi-directional chargers to drive vehicle-to-grid trial
Western Power Distribution is attempting to drum up participants in a vehicle-to-grid trial by offering free bi-directional charging systems worth over £5,000 to participants.
The...
Government sets out stall for UK carbon market
Government has set out plans to implement a UK carbon trading scheme by January next year.
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) will replicate...
Simec Atlantis CEO: Share price “set for the mother of all corrections”
Simec Atlantis CEO Tim Cornelius thinks the firm’s share price, just seven per cent of its 2014 IPO, is “set for the mother of...
United Utilities installs 2MW battery alongside solar
United Utilities has installed a 2MW battery alongside solar power at a treatment works in Preston.
The water company said the batteries will improve site...
EnergyPro seeks £2m to open India energy market to UK firms
EnergyPro Asset Management is seeking £2m in equity funding as it bids to unlock the $12bn Indian energy efficiency market.
Led by Steve Fawkes, the...
BT and Plug and Play aim to find, scale and invest in UK clean...
BT has partnered with a US firm in a bid to bring UK clean tech firms to market. The telecoms giant aims to use...
UK fleet operators push DfT for 100 per cent EVs by 2030
The UK's largest fleet operators are set to push government to bring forward its phaseout of combustion engine vehicles and provide incentives to the...
New public API to simplify management at the edge
Schneider Electric has released a public API (application programming interface) for cloud-based software EcoStruxure IT Expert. The first public API for EcoStruxure IT Expert,...
Statkraft adds Warrington Council’s solar-storage to VPP, hits 2.6GW
Statkraft has signed a hybrid power purchase agreement with Warrington Borough Council for its 35MW solar farm in York, co-located with 27MWh of battery...
Green light for 350MW mega solar farm in Kent, 700MWh storage to follow
Britain’s biggest solar PV farm to date, the 350MWp Cleve Hill project near Faversham, Kent, has been given the go ahead.
The £450 million development...
If we don’t get 10GW of storage fast, EFR prices ‘will look like peanuts’
National Grid's new measures to push power off the system offer a glimpse of the not too distant future: Without greater flexibility, balancing gets...
Sizewell C: EDF prepares to push nuclear option
EDF is seeking planning approval for its 3.2GW plant at Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast. The state-owned utility plans to test UK government...
Power Transition crowdfunds ‘not blockchain’ peer-to-peer energy tech
A software firm is bidding to build local energy markets using distributed ledger technology that it claims is orders of magnitude faster than blockchain.
Power...
Greenpeace slams mega solar farm in Kent, Drax closes in on 3.6GW gas giant
Two minute briefing on energy stories to start the week:
Britain’s biggest solar farm, Hive Energy and Wirsol Energy’s £450m Cleve Hill project on...
SSE: Decarbonise power by 2040, ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
SSE has urged government to use “robust” carbon pricing to decarbonise the power sector by 2040 and bring forward the ban on sales of...
PeakGen and Zenobe land nine year reactive power contracts
PeakGen and Zenobe have won £8.7m in contracts to provide reactive power, which helps keep voltage stable, in Mersey.
National Grid said it had picked...
Sunday demand to drop to 13.8GW, National Grid seeks more footroom
National Grid ESO expects demand on the transmission system to hit a new low this weekend and will likely need to call on its...
DSR can bid for 15-year capacity market agreements
Demand-side response will be able to bid for 15-year capacity market agreements under changes to government’s flagship policy intended to keep the lights on...
Arrival looks beyond electric vans to transport as a service and hydrogen lorries
UK technology company Arrival is planning to do way more than just make electric vans.
It’s looking at “the whole vehicle ecosystem,” according to chief...