ITM Power bullish on hydrogen prospects post Covid-19

Hydrogen firm ITM Power today brushed off a full year unaudited loss of £17.6m, bullishly reporting a record pipeline of £21.8m in committed contracts,...

Heat pump firms urge government to rethink support or “waste billions”

Billions of pounds committed by clients to big heat pump schemes will be wasted unless Whitehall reverses its decision to stop supporting large-scale deployments,...

Push harder on flexibility and half hourly settlement, firms tell Ofgem

A group of energy and technology companies have urged Ofgem to show “leadership” and expedite market-wide half hourly settlement to unlock flexibility from small...

UK goes coal free as gas, renewables and biomass take up slack

The UK has gone two full months without calling on coal-fired power stations for electricity generation. Coal use has declined dramatically in recent years, with...

Centrica axes 5,000 jobs

Centrica is to cull a further 5,000 jobs this year, including around 20 top-level directors. New CEO Chris O'Shea is attempting to curb heavy losses...

Energy storage: Why UK industry isn’t going with the flow

Flow storage struggles to compete against lithium even in long duration applications, suggests Marek Kubik, market director at Fluence Energy. The UK hit a new...

Covid-19 and energy contracts: Making volume tolerance clauses interesting

Catalyst Commercial Services CEO, Chris Hurcombe, discusses Covid-19's impact on business energy contracts - and how volume tolerance clauses could prove costly, if enforced. The...

National Grid extends EDF contract to turn down Sizewell B

National Grid has extended the contract it struck with EDF to reduce output from the Sizewell B nuclear station in a bid to keep...

Zenobe picks EDF to trade 59MW of battery storage

Battery storage developer Zenobe has picked EDF to trade flexibility from 59MW of grid-scale assets. The utility will optimise three of Zenobe's operational batteries at...

Invinity sells 1.7MWh new flow storage despite Covid

Invinity Energy Systems, the vanadium flow storage company created by the merger of Avalon and RedT, says it has signed orders for 1.7MWh of...

BP: leaves oil in ground, prepares for £80/t carbon price by 2030

BP today became the first global oil giant to accept hydrocarbon reserves must remain unexploited, if the firm is to survive. It's also preparing...

Tesla granted electricity generation licence ahead of VPP push

Tesla Motors has been granted a UK electricity generation licence enabling it to further local ambitions as an energy business. The electric carmaker is planning...

600MWh: Statera plans UK’s biggest battery at Thurrock

Statera-owned Thurrock Power is planning to build the UK’s largest battery as part of a hybrid 750MW power plant. According to documents lodged with the...

Government eyes role of CHP in net zero world

Government is consulting on the role of combined heat and power (CHP) plants in a net zero economy. CHP plants burn fuel – mostly gas,...

Kensa starts deploying smart heat pumps at Oxford ‘superhub’ project

Heat pump firm Kensa and housing provider Stonewater have started installing the first smart heat pumps as part of the Oxford ‘superhub’ smart grid...

Hydrogen lobby warns Sunak not to let UK get left behind

Big business has urged the Chancellor to back a UK-wide hydrogen strategy and unlock thousands of jobs and billions in investment. In a letter to...
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UK Power Networks awards 123MW of flex contracts – EVs included

UK Power Networks has awarded contracts for 123MW of flexible power worth £14m, with flexibility from electric vehicles making up part of the mix. The...

SSE green lights UK’s biggest onshore wind farm, £580 million Viking project

SSE is set to build Britain’s biggest onshore wind farm, the 443MW Viking project on Shetland. At peak output, Viking’s 103 turbines will generate around...

SSE business energy slumps to loss as bad debt bites

SSE’s business energy division slumped to an £18.5m loss for the year to 31 March, down from £51.6m profit the prior year. Electricity sales to...

Arrival unveils electric bus ‘at same price as fossil equivalent’

Arrival has unveiled the next product from its modular range, the Arrival Bus. It says the zero emissions bus will cost no more than...