ENA: Seven months of Flex trading equals hooking ‘half a Hinckley Point C’ to...
The first seven months of this year have seen grid flexibility contracts and smart energy deals outpacing all of 2020’s transactions by 45% in...
Wirral to get on-street EV charging points
A pilot project will see on-street electric vehicle charging points introduced in Wirral for the first time.
Wirral Council is about to start work on...
Bye-bye, fossils: Renewables out-duke UK’s 2020 thermal output for first time
Wind, solar, hydro and anaerobic digestion together made 43.1% of Britain’s electricity last year, outstripping legacy burning of hydrocarbons for the first time ever.
As...
Government selects Leyland Trucks for electric lorry trial
Leyland Trucks is to participate in a project designed to help UK operators make the transition to battery electric lorries.
A total of 20 DAF...
GeniePoint to join Zap-Pay network
National EV charging network GeniePoint has joined Zap-Pay, the method of paying for charging across networks from within the Zap-Map mapping service.
Zap-Map and Equans...
Government seeks answers on Capacity Market’s future
Beis is opening a debate on the future of the Capacity Market, inviting views on its early alignment with Net Zero, and more fundamentally...
“Every wee smidgeon helps”: ScottishPower’s onshore 30MW puts wind up Tesco
Iberdrola-owned ScottishPower Renewables has completed construction of its first new onshore windfarm in five years, in partnership with Tesco.
The 30MW Halsary farm in Caithness...
Amazon and TotalEnergies ink mammoth PPA
French fossil-based supermajor TotalEnergies today unveiled a massive continent-spanning power purchase agreement, supplying 100% renewable electricity to data centre leviathan Amazon.
Under the deal, TotalEnergies,...
British solar pioneer preps panels at 28% real-world efficiency, as Aussies slash electrolyte costs...
The economics of solar power generation and of clean electricity storage have taken yet another leap forwards out of universities and into commercial deployment.
University...
Arenko signs new contract to provide UK trading services to Vattenfall Wind Power Limited
Arenko has signed a trading optimisation services agreement with Vattenfall's Pen y Cymoedd 228MW Wind Farm, co-located with battery in South Wales.
Vattenfall’s 22MW was the first in...
Asda switches to EV-only company car fleet
Asda has become the first supermarket in the UK to move its whole company car fleet to EVs.
The business made the change after 85%...
Electric taxi firm Dynamo unveils £2m growth strategy
Coventry-based Dynamo Motor Company, which converts Nissan e-NV200 Evalia MPVs into all-electric black cabs, has announced its new £2m growth strategy.
The company has already...
Smart meters trial ‘helps homes slash average 49% from bills’, says optimisation supplier
A two-year, small-scale smart meter trial backed by Beis points to potential for solar- and battery-equipped homes to slash their bills almost in half,...
Cromarty Firth tops ScottishPower’s spots to house 35MW green hydrogen hub
The Cromarty Firth, north of Inverness, has emerged as lead candidate for ScottishPower’s biggest hydrogen complex yet, heating Highland distilleries and stripping carbon from...
Survey: More drivers now expect next car to be electric or hybrid
New research reveals that the number of drivers expecting their next car to be fully electric has risen by 32% in twelve months.
A study...
CfD cap must rise to 15GW, RenewableUK urges
The cap on Contracts for Difference must rise by 25% to 15GW on the back of ‘sky-high’ public support for clean renewables, the sector’s...
Vodafone’s 5G pilot to deliver flex signals across UKPN’s substations
An Ofgem-funded pilot now in development by mobile telco Vodafone and UK Power Networks aims to explore 5G telecommunications technology as a platform for...
Polestar to double market presence in 2021
EV performance brand Polestar has announced it will launch in nine new markets and double its retail presence by the end of the year.
Through...
Oil giant BP buys Open Energi, flexes deeper into electricity trading
BP corralled yet another clean electricity innovator into its kraal today, paying an undisclosed sum to acquire flex and DSR provider Open Energi.
Open Energi...
Brand-loyal power customers should be rewarded, not exploited, Kwarteng proposes
Loyal energy users penalised by suppliers who hook them into expensive default tariffs could be the exception, and not the UK norm, if success...