A fair wind blowing: Offshore turbine jobs grow 16% in twelve months, set for...
New figures released today by trade advocates the Offshore Wind Industry Council quantify the wall of fresh cash investing in maritime turbines, and the...
Carbon-busting invention from Greenwich Uni purges cement, preps to clean heavy emitters
Innovators spun off from London’s Greenwich University have won cash funding to expand into decarbonising cement and other heavy-emitting, hard-to-clean industries.
Through its patented Accelerated...
Faithful to community energy: UK’s biggest DNO recruits engineers to help co-operatives
Western Power Distribution, Britain’s biggest distribution network operator serving eight million households, has become the first DNO to pledge operational support to the nation’s...
Equinor seeks Net Zero Hydrogen cash for Saltend H2H’s twin
Norwegian powerco Equinor this morning confirmed a bid application for its second blue hydrogen plant in England’s Humberside energy cluster. Its target is 1.2GW...
WPD boosts vision for low carbon heat
Western Power Distribution is pushing ahead with its RIIO-ED2 investment plans in what it claims is its most ambitious plan yet to connect households...
Ofgem’s £21 billion RIIO-ED2 gauntlet squeezes DNOs with ‘tough efficiency challenges”
Britain’s energy regulator is seeking stakeholder views on investments plans totalling £20.9 billion which will shape the nation’s electricity network until 2028.
Before making its...
Nukes “essential for Net Zero transition”: IEA
A new report from the para-governmental body for oversight of the world’s energy has re-ignited the debate over the planet’s – and Britain’s –...
DNOs react to Ofgem’s RIIO-ED2 direction
Regional network monopolies are girding their loins for the last leg of negotiations with Britain’s power regulator, before it binds them in December to...
Harmony exercises firm hold on non-flyaway batteries
Another glimpse quantifying the investment boom in Britain’s grid-scale batteries came this morning, with debutant fund Harmony Energy Income Trust publishing its first performance...
Crown Estate bobs up likely licence zones for floating turbines in Celtic Sea
The independent body defining licencing zones for Britain’s coastal waters today uncorked plans to define operational patches of the Celtic Sea soon to see...
D-BEIS frees up £54m for Carbon Capture projects
Innovations to remove greenhouse gases such as CO2 from the air today won a new pot of D-BEIS grants.
Priming private investment by initially awarding...
Big Solar Co-op seeks £1.2 million to speed big roof projects, targets 100 MW...
Social funding network Sharenergy believes its new national portfolio approach will succeed in unlocking the 5GW solar potential of Britain's commercial and community roofs.
Under...
EQTEC gets Billingham ducks in a row, prepares clients to be billing ‘em
Multi-fuel energy innovators EQTEC have unveiled latest steps in bringing their Teesside mega-plant to fruition.
CEO David Palumbo’s enterprise last month announced a partnership intended...
Reams of REMA: D-BEIS moots “biggest changes in a generation” to electricity markets
Generators and electricity industry observers have welcomed sweeping changes in Britain’s electricity markets proposed by energy ministry D-BEIS.
Closeness to wind farms, nuclear or gas...
Kwarteng approves Sizewell C on energy security grounds
Energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has overruled fears over bird preservation and water management at Sizewell C, granting permission yesterday instead for the £20 billion...
Octopus sucks in $550 million, stretches tentacles further
Existing investors are backing privately-held Octopus Energy Group by injecting a massive $550 million of new funds. Expansions both territorial – deeper into continental...
Profits soar at Centrica & Shell
Energy supermajors Centrica and Shell pleased investors today but antagonised customers and politicians, reporting soaring profits. British Gas’s owner declared its first dividend for...
Pope backs worldwide call for ban on new pumping of fossil fuels
Pope Francis has given his backing for a global ban on new exploration of oil and gas resources.
In the run up to CoP27 in...
Octopus seeks £1 billion government loan as sole bidder for Hayden Wood’s collapsed Bulb
Privately held Octopus Energy is reportedly seeking a £1 billion taxpayer-funded loan to hedge supplies, among its conditions for its proposed £100 m takeover...
BP profits top £7 bn for Q2, highest for fourteen years
Bernard Looney’s “cash machine” lived up to the BP CEO’s notorious characterisation this morning, as the fossil fuel super major posted its highest quarterly...