Government finds £102 million at Christmas to prime new nuclear & hydrogen
The Sunak administration today presented early gifts to investors in nuclear power and advanced hydrogen, finding parcels of £77 million and £25 million respectively...
Pure hydrogen commercial boiler used in industrial scale demonstration
In what is claimed to be a first, Baxi and H2GO Power have today announced an industrial scale demonstration to deliver their unique carbon...
New green jobs surging at four times standard vacancy creation, say PwC
Global accountants PwC calculate that Britain’s creation of green jobs is running at four times the creation rate for other vacancies.
The consultancy firm’s “Green...
New public EV charge points for Gosport
Gosport Borough Council is installing more than 30 EV charging sockets at seven of its car parks as part of a new partnership with...
Lords to debate co-operatives’ local right of supply
The House of Lords will this week debate a proposal to allow local generators including community energy co-ops to retail clean power direct to...
Volvo launches more heavy duty electric trucks
Volvo Trucks has expanded its range with the launch of new rigid variants of its FH, FM and FMX heavy duty electric models.
Production of...
Thanks a million: 250k Octopus homes reap flex’s rewards
More than 250,000 Octopus customers have together saved over £1 million by delivering demand flexibility over four paid-for sessions, the energy group announced today.
Operating...
Government backs clean avgas firm Velocys with £29.5 million
Sustainable aviation fuel innovator Velocys today saw its share price surge 19%, as it celebrated securing two government grants totalling nearly £30 million in...
Q&A with Paul Jewell, System Development Manager, Western Power Distribution
Favourite holiday destination?
Anywhere hot and sunny, usually the Algarve
What car do you drive?
For work miles I am electric, driving the high miles in a...
Planners green-light Britain’s biggest battery, and first CCUS plant in Lincs
Innovative generation projects on opposite sides of Britain have this week received planning approval, speeding innovation in the nation’s dispersal and deployment of practical...
InstaVolt doubles number of EV rapid chargers at Banbury site
EV charging network InstaVolt is doubling the number of ultra-rapid EV chargers at its hub in Banbury, Oxfordshire from 16 to 32.
The new 120kW...
BP Pulse to install 900 EV charge points for M&S
BP Pulse is to install an initial 900 high-speed EV charge points at 70 Marks & Spencer stores across the UK over the next...
Sunak heartens England’s pro-wind heartlands, Coffey backs 3b land
Frictions within prime minister Rishi Sunak’s increasingly internal fragile coalition of in-office Conservatives have brought new comfort this week to developers of land-based green...
Electricity to power rigs in 3 N Sea oilfields? Fossil giants ponder how
Another citadel in hydrocarbons’ hegemony over the energy industry appeared to totter this morning, after oil and gas majors BP, Equinor and Ithaca unveiled...
Minister signs off PV developer’s Devon appeal, as Next Gen raises c£ half billion...
A solar developer has had a project in Devon approved by a minister on appeal, after a countryside charity was found to have mis-stated...
Thanks, Vladimir: Solar PV to replace coal as planet’s top power source by 2027,...
Renewables will be the world’s main source of electricity as early as 2027, the United Nations’ energy authority states bluntly today.
In its global survey...
Supermarkets team up with power co-ops to urge more green generation
High Street food giants including Tesco, M&S and Morrisons have joined forces with Community Energy England, calling for faster progress by PM Rishi Sunak...
Ford to supply Deutsche Post DHL Group with 2000 e-Transits
Ford is to supply Deutsche Post DHL Group with more than 2,000 e-Transit electric delivery vans worldwide by the end of 2023.
Deutsche Post DHL,...
Octopus buys rooftop solar firm Zestec
Ever-expanding integrated clean power supplier Octopus Energy Generation has completed the purchase of on-roof solar developers & managers Zestec.
With a pipeline of over 100...
First implementation of Volta’s new full-electric Volta Zero with Truck as a Service charging...
Volta Trucks has announced the first implementation of its new full-electric Volta Zero with Truck as a Service charging infrastructure to Heppner, creator of...