Three more DNOs name their numbers to meet RIIO-ED2 grid upgrades
Accompanying SSEN’s five-year grid expansion plans unveiled yesterday, three additional DNOs have published their draft submissions to Ofgem.  Â
Western Power Distribution trumps SSEN’s...
Fuels, in love: Shell and Rolls Royce smooch to de-carb avgas for big jets
Lower carbon flights in big commercial jets moved a step closer to reality today, as Shell and Rolls Royce inked a memo, committing both...
It’s a long wind from Tipperary: Vestas to supply Ørsted’s onshore debut in Ireland
Turbine-maker Vestas today said it has secured a 29MW order from Ørsted for the Danes’ Lisheen 3 project in County Tipperary, central southern Ireland.
The...
Acute hospital Trust’s lighting optimisation will save around £400k per annum and deliver a...
As part of the £4 million energy performance contract with United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT), Veolia has now upgraded lighting at Lincoln County...
Saietta Group raising £37.5 million to accelerate growth
The IPO will provide the Oxfordshire-based firm with the capital to execute its growth plans, including establishing a motor durability testing facility and expansion...
Merkel interconnects with Johnson: terminal link sees positive potential
Angela Merkel’s parting gesture to the UK as Chancellor looks to be approving with the Johnson administration the first direct power link between Germany...
Octopus buys Octopus: Sixteen legs good, eight legs better, FCA agrees
Power supplier Octopus Energy today confirmed a green light from the Financial Conduct Authority has freed it formally to acquire its older sister, the...
‘Stick it up top, my son’: Mitie goes gang-busters with Essex schools’ solar
Facilities managers Mitie are showing ‘the only way is solar’ on the public buildings of an unfairly belittled county. (The Energyst declares a native...
Stellantis to invest £100m to build EVs at Ellesmere Port
Stellantis has announced it is investing £100million in Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port manufacturing plant to transform the site for EV manufacturing.
Ellesmere Port, which has been...
Activists claim growing council & NGO support for Local Supply right
Campaigners seeking to free Britain’s local co-ops to sell low-carbon electricity direct to their communities today vowed to keep up the fight, citing numbers...
Parliament calls for major energy rules shake up
MPs from all parties have debated new rules to enable clean community energy generation and called upon the government to enact a ‘Right to...
Green-hued H2 for choo-choos, as Getech inks memo with lococo Eversholt
Trains powered by green hydrogen instead of diesel could be rolling down Britain’s tracks, if an understanding sealed yesterday bears fruit.
Locomotive and rolling stock...
Thermal Management Solutions Group appoints industry expert to strengthen focus on electrification
Thermal Management Solutions Group has appointed Lawrence Davies MBE as a Non-Executive Director to spearhead its transition to a supplier focused on EVs.
Davies brings...
600,000-plus new UK jobs in green energy ‘to make up for 90% jobs destroyed...
Britain’s boom in low-carbon energy and green infrastructure is on course to create 625,000 jobs, equivalent to 90% of the pandemic’s toll on employment,...
Investors GLIL pledge £150m to ion Ventures for big batteries
International clean tech developer ion Ventures has accepted up to £150 million for committing its UK energy projects to a partnership with GLIL Infrastructure...
Sureserve adds 30 Citroën ë-Dispatch electric vans to fleet
UK-based compliance and energy services provider Sureserve Group has added 30, 100% electric Citroën ë-Dispatch vans to its LCV fleet.Â
Sureserve Group placed orders for...
‘Whan tha jobs coom in’: Beis gets more CFD powers, as 1,000 wind jobs...
Two big pledges to British-based manufacturing for offshore wind turbines this week boosted the sector’s skilled jobs. Meanwhile the Treasury and Beis are beefing...
Detail-averse Johnson defends his Net Zero progress to MPsÂ
Britain’s Prime Minister was long on boosterism but predictably short on numbers about his Net Zero policies, as he faced questions this week from...
Football’s over-coming ohms: Western Power peaks for Denmark gameÂ
Engineers’ chatter about power peaks at half time during big televised sports events consists of irresistible fact, as much as cherished fiction. Better still,...
Vauxhall range to be to EV-only from 2028
Vauxhall has announced it will focus entirely on full battery electric vehicles from 2028.
With the introduction of the all-electric Combo-e and Movano-e LCVs, Vauxhall...