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...
Net Zero MPs ‘profoundly concerned’ about Johnson’s lack of NZ action
Parliament’s all-party Net Zero interest group has accused the Johnson administration of ‘just hoping for the best’ in its supposed quest for carbon reductions...
Tesco to debut Britain’s first electric HGVs
Tesco is to pioneer the use of heavy electric trucks to supply food and other products to its distribution centre in Wales early in...
Gas crisis: Energy companies float CfD variant as solution
Energy suppliers are asking the government to launch a variant on contracts for difference (CfDs) as a way of spreading the rocketing costs of...
Carlton Power and Stag Energy merge to deliver infrastructure wizardry
Two of Britain’s longest established developers of energy infrastructure are joining up. Ending three decades of independence, Carlton Power and Stag Energy today plight...
Q&A: Steve Tigar, entrepreneur and CEO of loveelectric
Modern Fleet talked to Steve Tigar an entrepreneur and CEO of loveelectric, a new ethical fintech aiming to make low-cost electric car leasing a...
Smart meters: Britain tops 17 million, saves half million tonnes of CO2 each year
The UK’s installed base of smart, remotely addressable meters passed the 17 million milestone in 2021, overseers at the Data Communications Company (DCC) announced...
ENA oversees flexibility & collaboration in 2022’s Open Networks programme
Britain’s energy networks have unveiled ambitious plans for 2022 to transform the way the UK’s energy networks operate through its industry-backed Open Networks programme.
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Half night, half day: WPD’s Equinox prizes flex uses of low carbon pumps in...
Britain’s biggest distributed network operator is pumping over £15m into unlocking the flexibility offered by low carbon residential home heat. Ground- or air-sourced pumps...
Renewables-supporting Brits reject scrapping ‘green taxes’ to fend off price hikes
A poll of 2,000 Britons released today gives the lie to beliefs propagated by MPs and newspapers on the Conservative right that the public...
BP’s $ 7.6 bn profit renews calls for windfall tax
BP today followed its hydrocarbon ‘sister’ Shell last week in announcing record sky-high profits, renewing politicians’ calls for a reluctant chancellor to impose windfall...
Government doubles up on CfD auctions, as Kwarteng presses pedal to the metal
Joy has broken out in Britain’s renewables sector, in reaction to D-BEIS committing yesterday to double its frequency of Contracts for Difference (CfD) auctions...
What will the world be like if hydrogen is the solution?
]A new, free-to-read book, ‘Touching Hydrogen Future. Tour around the globe’, sets out the changes we can expect if hydrogen projects currently under consideration...
Want long duration grid-focused batteries? Then put a Cap and Floor on balancing, Aurora...
Radical reforms to power trading rules are needed, if Britain is to achieve necessary expansion of long-duration power storage on route to Net Zero...
New Ford & Stanley brand reflects UK sustainability focus
Talent services company, Ford & Stanley Group has kept pace with national environmental activities with the expansion of both its dedicated environmental technology recruitment...
Ofgem green-lights nine SP Energy Networks projects towards Net Zero
SP Energy Networks has been given the green light to progress with £1.2m worth of projects to help tackle some of the UK’s biggest...
Green Heat Networks Fund to offer £288 million for hot and cool pipes
Energy ministry D-BEIS today advertised its intention to seek bids from heat network operators, eager to extend low carbon heat and chills to homes...
Frack Britain back to the future, demands backbencher, as oil hits $130 a barrel
The Conservative leader of the hard-right Net Zero Group this morning announced a co-ordinated call for a revival of Britain’s fracking industry, in response...
Announce hydrogen “big punt” to free the UK from Putin’s gas
Mike Foster, chief executive of the trade body Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA), has today called upon the Prime Minister to free the UK...
Envisioning a net zero power system in 2035
A new interactive report, produced by Regen for National Grid Electricity System Operator, takes a detailed look at a ‘day in the life’ of...