Government boosts CFD pot to £227 million for AR5, up £22 million
Energy secretary Grant Shapps has responded to developers' criticism, and found an inflation-matching sum of £22 million, to boost this autumn's latest round in...
£3 million offered before 22 August to energy co-ops & community campaigners
Ofgem’s Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme opened this week for its fifth round of grant-making. Community campaigners & leaders of the UK's nearly 400...
Hot and hotter! Pump startup seeks partner, deploying high temperature heat to industry
Industrial heat pump startup Futraheat has secured £689,000 from Innovate UK to develop and deploy a commercial heat pump to deliver low CO2, high...
Sunak’s failure to shadow US IRA “could cost UK £224 billion by 2050”: Aldersgate
The Sunak government's inadequate commitments to strip heavy carbon pollution out of UK industry along the lines of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act...
EDF to invest £4.5bn this year in UK low carbon electricity
Nuclear-to-solar-to-wind generator EDF Energy says it is on track to develop £4.5billion-worth of low carbon electricity-making assets in the UK this year.
In its 2023...
Supplier heeds noble call to recycle argon for Indian solar mega-plant
Surrey start-up Gas Recovery & Recycle Ltd ( GR2L) has had its hopes of success inflated by a £4 million deal struck to export...
Triodos Bank ranked top global for financing of clean energy projects
Triodos Bank has been named as the most active clean energy lead arranger by total number of deals in the past year. The bank...
Nearly half of teens plan to skip uni & seize green job instead, E.on...
Forty-six percent of Britain’s young people aged 16 to 24 plan to forego traditional college or university education, and opt for immediate jobs in...
SME-to-SME trades of clean solar power ‘cuts bills by up to 90%’ on Suffolk...
Over 140 companies on an industrial estate in Mildenhall, Suffolk, reckon their local market trading low carbon electricity is slashing bills by between 20%...
Octopus winds down £90 m of Polish wind, Leg-ias it out of Warsaw
Octopus’ asset holding investment trust ORIT has signed conditional terms, enabling it to reap substantial profits on two Polish wind farms.
Net proceeds of the...
Tag taps 3 banks for £70m to set 100MW battery humming near Drax
Global clean energy enterprise TagEnergy has secured a debt package to finance its next UK-based battery energy storage system (BESS) project under an innovative...
Amazon primes 39 new renewables projects in Europe this year, delivers 1GW
More solar PV atop its UK distribution centres and data warehouses is among 1GW of new renewable generating capacity added by Amazon so far...
Centrica’s £65m strengthens Gresham’s & UKIB’s joint pledge on storage
Manager of green energy assets Gresham House and the state-owned UK Infrastructure Bank have confirmed their six-month old partnership to invest in collocated renewable...
Co-op a look, Donald! UK’s biggest community-owned wind farm half way to spinning citizen-controlled...
Four of eight permitted turbines have now been erected at a pioneering new wind farm in Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, on Scotland’s south west coast.
Together rated...
Roofs shine over school & Shoreham port, as Brighton Energy Co-op raises £700k in...
Sussex-centred green power volunteers Brighton Energy Co-operative have given the lie to fears of "investor fatigue” in raising funds for accountable, socially engaged power...
Government’s wavering snags flex markets & thus Net Zero, REA concludes
Compared to our European neighbours, the UK has some of the most ambitious energy targets this decade, but faces almost unrivalled problems in reaching...
National Grid’s £1.8 billion half year profits a “sham”, says union boss
Underlying profits of £1.8 billion announced today by National Grid for this year’s first half are a "sham", according to the head of Unite,...
Octopus’ ‘heavenly wind’ to fan £3 Billion into Europe’s offshore turbines
The generation arm of internationally expanding Octopus Energy today announced its first ever dedicated investment drive focused on offshore wind, primed with capital from...
SMEs and sustainability projects: financing incremental steps towards net zero
Ollie Finkill and George Littlewood, Siemens Financial Services in the UK explain how finance can enable SMEs to bridge the investment gap and realise...
UK energy may need £900 Bn to reach Net Zero; NatWest & Boston Group
More than £900 billion in new spending may be required to get Britain’s power supply networks to Net Zero by mid-century, a leading renewables...