Yorkshire Water seeks bidders to build 150 solar arrays
Yorkshire Water is seeking bidders to deliver 150 solar PV arrays across its sites.Â
It has opened the tender for a new eight year framework,...
EDF partners with Octo for 200MW solar-storage push
EDF Renewables has partnered with developer Octo Energy in a bid to find and develop sites for co-located solar and storage.
The two will be...
Swiss-Re backed carbon removal market targets gigaton scale-up
A marketplace matching corporates trying to decarbonise with carbon negative materials producers is bidding to remove gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Early clients...
Peel and Powerhouse push on with plastic to hydrogen plan
Peel plans to back up to 11 plastic-to-hydrogen parks via a partnership with PowerHouse Energy.
Peel is PowerHouse’s landlord at Protos Energy Park in Cheshire...
An ale called Gale: BrewDog 100 per cent wind powered from July
BrewDog will brew its beers from wind power from mid-July.
The company last month outlined plans to invest in three turbines totalling 2.4MW.
The move is...
Aldi picks Shell’s NewMotion for EV chargers
Aldi has picked Shell's NewMotion division to install EV chargers at all new UK stores.
The deal will see 140 chargers initially installed, with potential...
Rapid EV charging network Engenie rebrands to Osprey
Rapid electric vehicle charging network Engenie is to rebrand as Osprey.
The firm has to date installed 150 rapid chargepoints at 100 locations. It counts...
Ireland lighting firm eEnergy targets £1bn UK schools market with RSL buy
Both firms provide funded lighting solutions, though eEnergy also provides broader energy efficiency and management under an energy-as-a-service banner.
The all-share deal will see eEnergy...
Equinor to decarbonise Hull with hydrogen, if government provides right deal
Norwegian-state owned Equinor is planning to build a 600MW hydrogen production plant near Hull.
The facility will turn methane, also called natural gas, into hydrogen...
AFC Energy raises £32m to scale hydrogen fuel cells
Hydrogen fuel cell developer AFC Energy has raised £31.6 million in new capital in a bid to scale.
The firm plans to make bigger units:...
Drax faces threat of strike vote over redundancies
Drax is facing the prospect of a workforce vote for its first ever strike, over allegations of ‘bad faith’ surrounding more than 200 compulsory...
My work here is done: Limejump CEO Erik Nygard exits
Limejump CEO Erik Nygard will leave the aggregator in September with new COO Catherine Newman to take the reins on an interim basis.
Nygard led...
Demand hits new low, Grid deals with it
Demand on the transmission system hit 13.4GW, a new low last weekend, but National Grid ESO managed without calling on its new footroom service.
"The...
Gresham House spends £20m on Arenko’s 41MW Bloxwich battery
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has completed the 41MW Bloxwich battery storage facility acquisition from Arenko, taking its operational portfolio to 215MW.
Commissioned 12 months...
Royal London consolidates FM with Mitie, targets energy efficiency gains
Royal London has consolidated FM services with Mitie under a five-year deal.
The insurance giant is aiming to achieve at least 10 per cent energy...
Ofgem tells DNOs to get on with 1MW+ asset register and plan for national...
Distribution network operators must compile a database of all assets connected to their networks above 1MW – and make them publicly available after Ofgem...
Statkraft and GE team up on inertia tech to keep grid stable
Statkraft has inked a contract with GE that will enable it to help keep the grid stable by providing inertia via a large spinning...
Electric vehicle registrations top 6 per cent as sales accelerate
New registrations of electric vehicles reached 6.1 per cent in June and have moved ahead of industry projections against a backdrop of steep overall...
Gresham House Energy Storage launches ‘grid bonds’ to buy more batteries
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund is aiming to raise an initial £15m to buy more grid scale battery storage.
The fund has an operational storage...
Smartest Energy signs PPA for 42MW Newhurst EfW plant
Smartest Energy has signed what it claims is one of the largest power purchase agreements to date in the energy-from-waste sector.
The Marubeni-owned firm has...