Good Energy leads £9 million fundraising for Zap-Map to expand overseas
Clean power supplier Good Energy has helped Britain’s leading EV charging firm complete a £9 million fund-raising round, opening its doors wider to international...
Sporty! Gridserve pit-stops to take on £200 million from M&G’s Infracapital
Solar-power-to-electric-wheels future-seekers Gridserve have secured an initial £200m equity stake from investment giant M&G’s infrastructure equity participant Infracapital.
For the five-year old e-charging and EV...
Bluefield scoops AR4 CfD contracts for 62.4MW of new solar
British renewable investors Bluefield Solar Income Fund have announced their receipt of Contracts for Difference (CfDs) covering 62.4MW of new planned capacity through the...
Investors Next Energy Solar Fund and Bluefield hike quarterly asset valuations
NextEnergy Solar Fund and Bluefield Solar Income Fund today separately signal to LSE followers quarterly rises in net asset value of 8.2% and 10%...
Octopus’ new investment partnership targets Britain’s biggest unbuilt grid battery
Building Britain’s biggest battery, capable of storing a day’s supply of renewable electricity for 235,000 Midlands homes, is on the to-do-list for Octopus Energy’s...
£327 million of new cash puts UK solar on track to double by 2030
The investment managers have raised the cash in the first phase of their NextPower UK ESG fund, a solar-specific infrastructure fund intended to double...
Plymouth in frame for Carlton Power’s third green H2 hub
The gas synthesising firm has secured planning permission for its third planned green hydrogen plant, a 10MW facility to be located in the Langage...
RES wins planners’ blessing for 100MW Durham battery
Clean energy developer RES has secured planning permission to progress a 99.9MW battery close to an existing substation near Spennymoor, County Durham.
The mega-device is...
Bills crisis: Truss starts split of power prices from gas costs, protects oil extractors,...
The first act of Liz Truss’ government opened this morning, with the prime minister announcing her much-trailed package to ease the crisis of rocketing...
Speed up decarb efforts now and save “trillions” by 2050, Oxford study urges ...
Pushing still harder to decarbonise the world’s energy supply by 2050 promises to strip as much as $12 trillion – or £ 10.34 trillion...
Foresight Solar ahead 14.4%, half year to June
Solar electricity and storage investor Foresight Solar Fund advanced 14.4% in net asset value in 2022’s opening six months, it announced today.
The nine-year old...
Octopus legs it deeper into Lincs, surfaces onshore in Germany
The quoted trust driving expansion for European renewables hyper-investor Octopus reached further into Lincolnshire’s biggest offshore wind farm this morning, at the same time...
Decentralised renewables “needed more than ever”: Good Energy boss
Nigel Pocklington, pictured, unveiled interim results for 2022’s first six months, showing the now generation-free retailer and service operator posting a pre-tax loss on...
A climate-neutral car this decade? Pensana & pals plot progress to Polestar 0
Sustainable rare earths and magnets firm Pensana is teaming up with Polestar, Volvo’s EV division, to build the world’s first climate-neutral car by 2030,...
Fracking ban lifted, as D-BEIS confirms 100 new North Sea licences
The government this morning tore up a manifesto commitment, rescinding Britain’s 2019 moratorium on onshore fracking for gas, citing the need to increase national...
Ecosia’s search wave finds sharers Ripple, seeks more ethical corporates
Sustainable web searchers Ecosia made waves today in consumer-owned British electricity, pumping Euros 250,000 into Ripple Energy, the funding innovators dedicated to boosting small...
Notts ex-coal plant picked for nuke fusion trial
EDF’s former fossil-fuelled power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire is to host a pilot plant for nuclear fusion.
The government is providing £220 million...
DX Express ties Silva ribbon to go electric in London
Courier firm DX this morning told investors its London parcel delivery fleet will begin a switch to electric vehicles, care of an alliance with...
Energycos seeking public guarantees must have a Net Zero strategy, says Bank of England
Beleaguered energy retailers seeking public financial support to underwrite their hedging of gas and power trades must show Treasury civil servants their detailed plans...