Innova hails planners’ consent for 400MW Carlisle battery
Renewable energy firm Innova is celebrating Cumberland Council’s grant of planning permission for its two-hour grid-scale storage battery, to be located at Blackdyke, near...
APC Manchester introduces EVs and charging stations
APC Manchester, part of The APC parcel delivery network, has unveiled the first of two electric vans to join its fleet.
These all-electric Ford E-Transit...
“Watershed for affordability“, as Ofgem’s P415 opens up wholesale power market to flex providers
Ofgem is seeking dramatically to increase the number of energy market participants offering flexibility services, as a route to balancing power supplies and getting...
Octopus winds down £90 m of Polish wind, Leg-ias it out of Warsaw
Octopus’ asset holding investment trust ORIT has signed conditional terms, enabling it to reap substantial profits on two Polish wind farms.
Net proceeds of the...
NG flexes to load up with homes, happy to shift loads
National Grid’s electricity distribution arm is flexing its commercial muscle, again seeking to embrace homes – or their aggregators – looking to time-shift their...
Breaking news: Emissions scheme to reduce sale of carbon allowances
Energy-intensive industries will be incentivised to reach their lowest-ever level of carbon emissions, under detailed plans published by the UK government & devolved administrations...
Edinburgh Airport installs 40 EV charge points
Edinburgh Airport has installed 40 EV chargers across three of its car parks, providing an option to drivers who want to charge their electric...
SME-to-SME trades of clean solar power ‘cuts bills by up to 90%’ on Suffolk...
Over 140 companies on an industrial estate in Mildenhall, Suffolk, reckon their local market trading low carbon electricity is slashing bills by between 20%...
Bedeo unveils retrofit range extender
EV supplier Bedeo has launched a retrofit range extender which can transform diesel vans into electric hybrids.
The RE-100 Range Extender has around 117km of...
SP Energy Networks pals with Piclo to primp end-to-end flex
SP Energy Networks has signed a two-year amity deal with platform provider Piclo to enable flex services using its independent marketplace, allowing flex providers...
Take part in the npower Business Solutions survey on energy and business confidence
For the past two years, npower Business Solutions (nBS) has conducted a major piece of research - the Business Energy Tracker - among medium...
Turkish turbine to spin extra hours into RheEnergise’s long-term storage trial
Innovators of long-term power storage RheEnergise have signed a turbine purchase contract to advance their demonstrator project near Plymouth.
From Turkish supplier Hydropower Engineering, RheEnergise...
“Naysayers”, “wading through treacle” & policy voids dog Britain’s booming green sector, REA finds
Britain’s Net Zero commitments are being hampered by government hesitancy & ambiguity around the nation’s otherwise surging green economy, a leading trade association claims...
First Scotwind offshore farm seeks Holyrood’s consent, as Whitelee begins bug hunt
The first development in the winning bids of last year’s 24.8GW ScotWind leasing competition has filed papers seeking planning consent from ministers at Holyrood.
Offshore...
Gridserve adds Optimus smart EV home charger to salary sacrifice scheme
Gridserve has strengthened its EV salary sacrifice scheme by adding Go Zero Charge’s new Optimus smart EV home charger to the list of benefits.
The...
All driller, no filler: National Grid “not boring“ in south London anymore
The less interesting lower half of Britain’s capital city witnessed at the weekend an end to boring to aid flows of backbone electricity –...
InstaVolt joins Octopus Electroverse
InstaVolt has joined Octopus Energy’s EV roaming service Electroverse which provides access to more than half a million public charge points globally.
It now serves...
NG’s flex trials reward battery homes with “up to 10 times” cash paid to...
Owners of home batteries earned up to ten times more cash from the National Grid’s Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) than participants who manually switched...
Nearly half of teens plan to skip uni & seize green job instead, E.on...
Forty-six percent of Britain’s young people aged 16 to 24 plan to forego traditional college or university education, and opt for immediate jobs in...
The University of St Andrews working with Gridimp in partnership with National Grid ESO...
A ‘turn-up’ For The Record Books
The University of St Andrews deliver a smart energy world first as they help keep zero carbon offshore wind...