EdF buys heat pump maker CB Heating
The UK arm of nationalised French powerco EdF has bought full control of CB Heating, one of Britain’s leading manufacturers of air sourced heat...
Holyrood bets £9m on Morocco power line, primes 900 Hunterston jobs
Scotland’s part was confirmed today in high private sector ambitions to pump low carbon Moroccan wind- and solar-derived electricity to Britain under thousands of...
Battery electric Toyota bZ4X for London parks police team
Toyota’s battery electric bZ4X has taken on its first “blue light” public service role, joining the fleet of one of London’s busiest parks police...
StoreDot partners with Polestar on extreme fast charging battery technology
StoreDot is collaborating with partner Polestar to explore and demonstrate how its extreme fast charging (XFC) battery cell technology can be applied to an...
Europe’s solar chiefs grasp issue of slave labour among China’s Uyghurs
The EU’s solar panel makers and importers have launched their first ever code of ethical conduct, positioning the industry towards cutting out PV panels...
How independent generators can meet business demand for renewable energy
By Vish Sharma, Head of Power Purchase Agreements at npower Business Solutions
Wholesale energy price volatility, coupled with an increasing focus on reducing carbon emissions,...
National Grid’s £1.8 billion half year profits a “sham”, says union boss
Underlying profits of £1.8 billion announced today by National Grid for this year’s first half are a "sham", according to the head of Unite,...
G.Network takes delivery of 100 Maxus electric vans
London-based G.Network has acquired 100 Maxus eLCVs to be used by its field engineers as they travel around the capital connecting homes and businesses...
Government’s wavering snags flex markets & thus Net Zero, REA concludes
Compared to our European neighbours, the UK has some of the most ambitious energy targets this decade, but faces almost unrivalled problems in reaching...
Hydrogen hopes: Rolls-Royce trios up to probe gas’s potential from small nukes
Small nuclear reactors (SMRs) as sources of low-carbon hydrogen fit to decarbonise industry and to fuel vehicles are the focus of an engineering partnership...
Electric Tevva truck to drive skills at Mira
Mira Technology Institute (MTI) has taken delivery of a new Tevva battery-electric truck, that will enable students and apprentices to see how the technology...
Charles booed by eco-protesters, as King’s Speech confirms bill to pump more fossil fuels
King Charles was reportedly booed by environmentalists as he and Camilla, the queen-consort left Parliament this morning after he delivered the King’s Speech.
Confirmed in...
Roofs shine over school & Shoreham port, as Brighton Energy Co-op raises £700k in...
Sussex-centred green power volunteers Brighton Energy Co-operative have given the lie to fears of "investor fatigue” in raising funds for accountable, socially engaged power...
Arriva orders 34 Wrightbus Electroliners for London
Arriva London has placed an order with Wrightbus for 34 more double deck battery electric StreetDeck Electroliners for delivery in early 2024.
These buses will...
NG drops checks on 20GW of battery plug-ins, pledges “6 Hinkley Cs” of quicker...
Backbone electricity shifter National Grid ESO today pledged cuts as high as four years in delays to connect up to 20GW of utility-scale storage,...
AI second-guesses power cuts on SP’s network
Artificial intelligence has made its operational debut on a British electricity grid.
Distributed switches & cables managers SP Energy Networks are claiming a UK first...
Britain & Germany ink accord on renewables & de-carbing buildings
Energy leaders of Europe’s two biggest economies have pledged to share knowledge on expanding renewable power and pushing harder to strip carbon from factories...
Cutting out the carb(on)s: developer un-wastes energy at Derby low-carbon food cluster
Supported by waste-to-energy innovators Veolia, industrial estate developers SmartParc are lightening the carbon load by 30,000 tonnes a year for a revolutionary food-processing complex...
The clean heat is on: Racks of data servers to render scores of thousands...
Data barns full of humming, heating computer servers are to be piloted as heat sources running district heat networks, energy ministry D-ESNZ confirmed today.
Scores...
Cornwall: 15 more months of price cap pain
The Israel-Hamas conflict, strikes at an LNG conversion plant in Australia & disruptions to the Finnish Balticonnector are among causes set to keep predicted...