Nissan to install new solar farm in Sunderland
Nissan has been given the go ahead to install an additional 20MW solar farm at its UK plant, the next milestone on its journey...
Top Dogger! SSE and Equinor top out £9 billion moolah mountain of world’s No1...
‘Topping out’ is a term from building, celebrating the installation of a new structure’s highest, final element. Porting the phrase this morning into wind...
Hydrogen fuel cell Toyota car joins JCB fleet
JCB, which is developing its own hydrogen engine technology, has taken delivery of the latest Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car.
The vehicle is among...
Regulator probes transcos’ and DNOs’ Storm Arwen response
Ofgem today announced a review of transmission and distribution networks’ responses to Storm Arwen, as thousands of homes awaited reconnection after seven days of...
Energy activists supply premium clothing brand
Energy Garden, a network of community energy projects in London, from next month will supply renewable electricity to two outlets of Patagonia, the upmarket...
Hydrogen fuelling London to San Francisco jets? That’ll be Fly Zero
Long haul flights for up to 279 passengers in a British-designed, hydrogen-fuelled plane blipped up as a prospect on airlines' radar this morning, courtesy...
GKN launches research facility to develop EV drive systems
GKN Automotive is investing £3.5m in a research facility created to develop next generation of electric vehicle drive systems.
Its new Advanced Research Centre, which...
Charge My Street joins Zap-Pay partner network
Charge My Street has become the latest charge point operator to sign up to EV charging payment service Zap-Pay.
The community-based charging network, which currently...
Northern Powergrid’s communications ‘completely unacceptable’ after Storm Arwen, says minister
Communications with its customers by Northern Powergrid, the DNO with at least 1,600 homes left still unconnected ten days after Storm Arwen devastated northern...
Co-op aiming to tackle Scope 3 emissions with aggregated PPA
Co-op Power has partnered with Zeigo to tender 100GWh per annum for a ‘Co-operative’ PPA – the equivalent of powering over 32,000 homes per year. The Co-op as...
London Mayor to offer grants up to £20k to insulate 3,200 fuel-poor homes
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is assembling a £51 million pot aimed at insulating the capital’s fuel-poor and leaky homes.   Grants of up to £20,000...
Balancing Mechanism costs rocket three times on 2020’s, as suppliers face BUUoS squeeze
A ‘perfect storm’ of surging world demand for gas, reviving power demand, low UK renewables generation and 2021's cull of retailers has pushed costs...
Staunch greenwash sleaze? Track carbon through grid in real time, say Elexon and ES...
Restoring integrity to tarnished "clean power" certificates can be best guaranteed with new rules and new tech, tracking carbon from seed to flower through...
Ofgem’s ’decade of lax oversight’ leaves consumers on hook for billions, Citizens Advice charges
Britain's energy regulator failed to act against unfit energy suppliers for nearly a decade, leaving the market vulnerable to this year’s spike in wholesale...
Vestas manages recovery from ‘LockBit’ cyber attack
Three weeks after suffering an attempted cyber attack for ransom, turbine maker Vestas is battling to define the extent of data theft. It is...
Gridserve announces motorway electric car charging hubs
Gridserve has announced will open more than twenty ‘electric hubs’ at motorway service stations across the UK by the second quarter of 2022.
The majority,...
Volkswagen enters EV battery partnerships
Volkswagen Group has entered into three new partnerships designed to strengthen its position in the field of battery technology.
Volkswagen and Umicore plan to establish...
Octopus to Canada’s civil servants: ‘Ta for your $300 million. More coming, eh?’
Christmas arrived early today for Octopus Energy Group, as Britain’s fast-growing generator-retailer commanding nearly 6% of domestic power accounts welcomed a $300 million equity...
InstaVolt heads EV networks in Zap-Map survey
Zap-Map has revealed its annual EV charging network satisfaction table, with InstaVolt’s rapid charging network ranked the UK’s favourite provider.
In the firm’s annual survey,...
Contracts for Difference auctions open: AR4 “bigger than all the rest”
Power developers in clean tidal, solar, and wind technologies jumped at the starting gun today, competing for a slice of the government’s record £285...