Behaviours changed, communities strengthened, jobs created, climate understood. Now energy co-ops seek intelligence in...
Britain’s battered, burgeoning, resilient community energy sector today celebrates its Whitehall-neglected achievements, engaging the nation face-to-face in the realities of energy control and climate...
“Waffle less, specify more, Prime Minister”: Climate Change Committee skewers Johnson
Britain’s top body of climate science advisors have lent their voice to the deafening chorus of investors, industry practitioners, scientists and activists, accusing the...
Electrogenic electrifies the Jaguar E-type
Classic car electrification company Electrogenic has electrified the Jaguar E-type, offering a choice of three zero-emission powertrains to provide different driving experiences and levels...
Skoda EV turns blue-light fleets green
Emergency services will soon be powered by battery electric technology as Skoda adds the brand’s first all-electric SUV – the Enyaq iV – to...
Brixton energy group innovates local flex services with EDF & UKPN
Community energy activists in south London have teamed up with two power behemoths to innovate power flexibility at the neighbourhood-level local.
A co-operatively-funded,-owned and-managed 37kWp...
Zenobe plugs Santander’s £60 million into Europe’s biggest battery near Chester
Fast growing storage operator Zenobe has flagged its intention to build Europe’s biggest storage device at Capenhurst, near Chester.
The 107MWh battery will be the...
50MW transmission-connected battery activated in Oxford
Pivot Power, part of EDF Renewables, Wärtsilä and Habitat Energy, activated the UK’s first grid-scale battery storage system directly connected to the transmission-network as...
Drax begins planning process to expand its ‘hollow mountain’ Cruachan power station
Drax Group is starting the planning process to build a new underground pumped hydro storage power station – more than doubling the electricity generating...
Aceleron launches what it claims is the World’s first totally renewable lithium-ion battery
Aceleron has launched a reusable, repairable and fully recyclable lithium-ion battery. Each individual part of the battery can be accessed using Aceleron's own compression...
Power Potential pilot plots path to pots of plenty, practitioners posit
Nine months of ‘world’s first’ trials into reactive power point the way to a potential £100 million market across the UK, National Grid ESO...
EAV delivers electric vehicles to famous Oxford Covered Market
Electric Assisted Vehicles, the Oxfordshire-based, micro-mobility manufacturer, has delivered two new EAV2Cubed vehicles to the famous Oxford Covered Market.
Named Aria and Atlas by Oxford...
Norway and Britain to swap clean electricity tomorrow over world’s longest subsea cable
Northumbria’s monks, beware; charged up Norsemen will tomorrow (Wed 23rd) tentatively unleash their hoard of clean volts on your Geordie shore.
Long contracts, not longships,...
The Energyst – Latest issue out now
The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App.
The Energyst is now published monthly,...
New EV charge points available in Carlisle
Eleven new EV charge points are now available in Carlisle, the result of a partnership between the city council and local community benefit society...
Net Zero Week 2021 | Official Video by Greg Clark MP
#NetZeroWeek2021 – Official Video by Greg Clark MP
Greg Clark MP, former Energy Secretary, narrates the Net Zero Week 2021 official video and calls for...
Fischer, and chips: Pure fuel firm Velocys powers world’s first commercial flight with gasified...
Oxford innovators Velocys are today celebrating success for their wood-chip-to-jet-juice sustainable aviation fuel, burned last week on the world’s first commercial flight thus powered and...
Volvo and Northvolt to partner on new battery gigafactory
Volvo Car Group is to establish a partnership with Swedish battery company Northvolt to develop and produce batteries to power the next generation of...
EXCLUSIVE: Kwarteng ‘disappoints’ England’s energy co-ops on local sale & Smart Export Guarantees
Energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng has turned down MPs’ requests for immediate reforms to lift curbs on England’s 273 volunteer-run local generators seeking to sell...
UK’s power backbone will run carbon-clean “for periods” by 2025, National Grid hints
Carbon-free operation of Britain’s power backbone for ‘periods at a time’ can happen as early as 2025, National Grid ESO has indicated.
A decade later...
“What’s that, Skippy? You’ve bought 187MW of batteries in Scotland & Southern England? So...
Once epitomised by marketers as a toy rabbit playing a drum, enduring battery power became linked today - at UK grid scale at least...