Downing whets (sic) Southern Water’s solar ambitions with £12 million
Investment management firm Downing is backing Southern Water with around £12 million to build 12 new solar electricity facilities to run the utility’s treatment...
Regulator bans Shell ads over alleged ‘greenwashing’
Britain's advertising watchdog has banned adverts by energy giant Shell on television and on YouTube, saying they gave a misleading impression of the size of...
Ofgem in quest for bidders for £7 billion of offshore connection kit
Energy regulator Ofgem is seeking investors willing to pledge up to £7 billion for offshore transmission assets.
Around ten offshore transmission assets, comprising prebuilt transmission...
“Largest in generations”: NG seeks partners for £4.5 billion Great Grid Upgrade
National Grid is inviting approaches from key supply chain partners as it attempts to deliver what it calls the "largest overhaul in generations" of...
Oilcos slam Starmer’s North Sea development ban
Labour’s proposals to ban new oil & gas extraction in the North Sea would undermine Britain’s energy security, threaten jobs, and send import bills...
Britain’s “lack of incentives” prompts Oxford solar pioneers towards US or EU plant; FT...
World-leading solar power pioneers Oxford Perovskite reportedly believe the UK is their “least attractive” option for a new factory to produce the firm's revolutionary...
Octopus pledges £1.5 bn to Japan & Asia
Green power mega developer Octopus will invest £1.5 billion in Asia’s energy markets by 2027, helping speed the region’s transition to cleaner, smarter energy.
The...
Exports, plus electrification of everything, will push UK power prices higher before 2030; Cornwall
Exports directed at plugging gaps in continental baseload will keep UK power prices at historically high levels for the rest of this decade, latest...
BP’s £4bn profits spur calls to tighten windfall tax on oilcos
Oil behemoth BP continues to profit from high energy prices, reporting this morning underlying earnings of £4 billion for the quarter to April. The...
Net Zero goals “will be missed”, say MPs, as ministers’ claims holed by delivery...
Britain will miss government goals to strip all carbon from electricity generation by 2035, without a delivery plan to remedy incomplete, contradictory policy from...
Government to tweak CfDs in quest of wider recognition & more capacity
Britain’s hugely successful flagship policy supporting clean electricity is to be reformed, as ministers ponder extending its rewards to developers for the sector's non-financial...
Hydrogen blended into gas grid “unfairly expensive to consumers”, 20 organisations tell Shapps
Boosting Britain’s nascent hydrogen economy by pumping the gas in blends over established grids will impose unfair costs on businesses & households, campaigners including...
Battery investor charges towards working 1GW this year
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GRID) anticipates converting 80% of its current project pipeline this year into operational capacity, targetting 1GW as its year-end...
Brexit bonus? Octopus invests in solar potential of Land of the Rising Sun
Japan was confirmed this morning as British clean electricity generator Octopus Energy’s foothold into more Asian expansion.
Greg Jackson’s privately held behemoth-in-the-making announced today its...
Greencoat UK Solar & Innova ally to develop 5GW of solar & storage
UK solar received yet another boost this morning, as financiers Schroders Greencoat teamed up with developers Innova Renewables to roll out a hoped for...
Ceres trials its green H2 tech with Linde & Bosch
Clean energy innovators Ceres Power Holdings have signed up with chemical giant Linde Engineering & industrial leviathan Bosch to pilot a 1 MW green...
Battery investors Gresham House charge up 20% full year growth
The fund thinks it is on course to be operating 1 GW of heavy duty batteries this year and 1.5 GW next.
Net asset value...
CCUS “backed by government’s £20 billion” to head Hunt’s energy Budget, Treasury briefs
Twenty-year Government incentives promoting carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) will reportedly headline benefits to the energy sector in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget on Wednesday.
The...
REMA responses “strengthen case for radical reform”: Cornwall
Replies to Britain’s biggest ever consultation on energy market reform underline the case for a far-reaching revamp, consultants Cornwall Insight believe.
D-ESNZ yesterday published its...
“Once more unto the Breach”: Iceland plugs into Octopus’s Cambs solar farm
Frozen food chain Iceland Foods is the latest High Street brand to sign a PPA (- power purchase agreement -) with a power retailer...