UK’s power backbone will run carbon-clean “for periods” by 2025, National Grid hints
Carbon-free operation of Britain’s power backbone for ‘periods at a time’ can happen as early as 2025, National Grid ESO has indicated.
A decade later...
E.ON to Johnson: ”Get a grip on decarb, give industry your deliverable details”
Britain’s biggest electricity provider today lambasts its prime minister, calling for substance and action to be injected into the Johnson government’s under-substantiated strategy of...
Biomass innovators Active Energy restructure to help coal burners clean up act
A British firm aiming to ease international power giants’ journey from coal burning to patented biomass, posted encouraging financials for calendar 2020, overcoming big...
“Decarb everything by 2050”, urge G7 chiefs. But Kernow’d they have done better?
Stripping the planet’s energy systems and economies of carbon received arguably more heat than light as a priority from heads of the world’s richest...
“No big G7 stock index is aligned with Paris climate goals”: Carbon Disclosure Project...
Corporations’ greenwashing of the rich world’s investors and their customers collided with hard numbers today, and shattered embarrassingly.
No major stock market among the seven...
‘Hydrogen heaven’ floats ITM Power to trading heights
ITM is the shovel-maker hoping to strike it rich in the world’s current ‘gold rush’ towards clean hydrogen.
Opening five months ago what it claims...
Energy industry unites and calls on government to build back greener ahead of COP26
With the eyes of the world on Glasgow at COP26 in November, the UK’s energy industry has united in a call for government to...
Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sign negative emissions project deal
Drax Group and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, have agreed a long-term contract for Drax to use its...
Northern Gas and Power takes the lead role in Net Zero Week 2021
Northern Gas and Power is the Principal Sponsor of the UK's first Net Zero Week which will run from July 17-23, 2021. The government and...
Powerhouse cops Glasgow docks for second plastics-to-hydrogen plant
The clean hydrogen love affair between waste plastic recyclers Powerhouse Energy and landlords Peel NRE has deepened, with the duo’s announcement of a location...
‘Blow harder for Net Zero and deliver 108GW wind by 2035’, Imperial tells Johnson
The Conservatives’ aspiration to deliver 40GW of offshore turbines by the end of the decade lacks puff in its intended decarbonisation of the UK...
On-site generation revealed as key net zero tactic for businesses, but more support is...
A new report has revealed that 50% of businesses are planning to invest in on-site generation as part of their decarbonisation strategies, despite the...
Heathrow pilots – plus refuelling crews – pilot UK’s first sustainable jet fuel pilot
Britain’s busiest airport today announced an experiment to refuel jets with 100% renewable fuel, now successfully pumped through its distribution network.
Supplied by oil trader...
British feedstock-maker Active Energy powers up generation for de-coaling US utility
London-traded provider of green power feedstock Active Energy has begun production of its patented biomass variant from its new US factory, ready for burning...
Investment leviathans tell G7 to make companies come clean over Net Zero
UK investment bosses managing £8.5 trillion of assets worldwide are urging G7 governments to step up their resistance to climate change, by committing to...
Hydrogen may offer a $2.5 trillion investment opportunity – report identifies companies set to...
Overall, the hydrogen revolution may provide a $2.5 trillion investment opportunity through to 2050 for utilities, equipment makers and others seeking to curb emission...
Wind, solar & nuke to Johnson: “Speed up, towards identified, ambitious generation goals”
Lobbyists for the UK’s low-carbon power makers have come together to voice their frustration at the Johnson government’s supposed vagueness over Britain’s energy future.
In...
The Energyst – Latest issue out now
The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App.
The Energyst is now published monthly,...
Kernow libre: Cornish rum and Ardmore’s wee dram drink deep in clean energy
It’s enough to drive an energy investor to drink. A ‘rum and coke’ in Cornwall might soon be sourced coal-bereft and carbon-free, even if...
Plastic fantastic: Green hydrogen pioneer Powerhouse lends big to its landlord
Clean gas innovator Powerhouse’s relationship with its landlord deepened today, as it stumped up a £3.8 million line of credit to fund development of...