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...
EXCLUSIVE: Kwarteng ‘disappoints’ England’s energy co-ops on local sale & Smart Export Guarantees
Energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng has turned down MPs’ requests for immediate reforms to lift curbs on England’s 273 volunteer-run local generators seeking to sell...
Fischer, and chips: Pure fuel firm Velocys powers world’s first commercial flight with gasified...
Oxford innovators Velocys are today celebrating success for their wood-chip-to-jet-juice sustainable aviation fuel, burned last week on the world’s first commercial flight thus powered and...
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,...
Drax begins planning process to expand its ‘hollow mountain’ Cruachan power station
Drax Group is starting the planning process to build a new underground pumped hydro storage power station – more than doubling the electricity generating...
“Waffle less, specify more, Prime Minister”: Climate Change Committee skewers Johnson
Britain’s top body of climate science advisors have lent their voice to the deafening chorus of investors, industry practitioners, scientists and activists, accusing the...
Behaviours changed, communities strengthened, jobs created, climate understood. Now energy co-ops seek intelligence in...
Britain’s battered, burgeoning, resilient community energy sector today celebrates its Whitehall-neglected achievements, engaging the nation face-to-face in the realities of energy control and climate...
Biogas and AD ‘can create 60k jobs this decade’
Anaerobic digestion of agricultural slurry can puff up Britain’s greening energy jobs market, while pumping 6% out of the nation’s carbon bubble by 2030,...
Hydrogen promotion contest to spread £60 million
Beis has earmarked up to £60 million for a competition spurring innovation steps in clean hydrogen’s production and storage, and its uses in transport. ...
Thames Water makes big splash for Net Zero by 2030
Nine years after plotting its first steps towards carbon neutrality, Britain’s biggest water utility today sets out its final plan to scoring Net Zero...
Climate targets need implementation of large-scale negative emissions solutions by 2025
Global action to deliver negative emissions technologies is falling far short of what is required to address the climate crisis warns a new study...
UK coal-fired power to end in October 2024, as Britain pre-schmoozes CoP26
Britain today advanced by twelve months to 1 October 2024 its deadline for phasing out unabated coal used in power generation.
Prime Minister Johnson had...
Plastics-to-hydrogen pioneer Powerhouse eyes ‘up to 70 UK sites’
Ellesmere Port-based plastic-to-clean hydrogen converter Powerhouse Energy Group has posted financial results for the year to December 2020.
Chaired by former MP Tim Yeo, the...
Three more DNOs name their numbers to meet RIIO-ED2 grid upgrades
Accompanying SSEN’s five-year grid expansion plans unveiled yesterday, three additional DNOs have published their draft submissions to Ofgem.
Western Power Distribution trumps SSEN’s...
Net Zero Week launches free webinar programme
Over 45 organisations have united to address the many and varied impacts of net zero with an exclusive programme of free-to-attend live webinars between 14...
Fuels, in love: Shell and Rolls Royce smooch to de-carb avgas for big jets
Lower carbon flights in big commercial jets moved a step closer to reality today, as Shell and Rolls Royce inked a memo, committing both...
Green-hued H2 for choo-choos, as Getech inks memo with lococo Eversholt
Trains powered by green hydrogen instead of diesel could be rolling down Britain’s tracks, if an understanding sealed yesterday bears fruit.
Locomotive and rolling stock...
600,000-plus new UK jobs in green energy ‘to make up for 90% jobs destroyed...
Britain’s boom in low-carbon energy and green infrastructure is on course to create 625,000 jobs, equivalent to 90% of the pandemic’s toll on employment,...
Detail-averse Johnson defends his Net Zero progress to MPs
Britain’s Prime Minister was long on boosterism but predictably short on numbers about his Net Zero policies, as he faced questions this week from...
The Energyst | Electrification of UK plc webinar
Date: Wednesday 14th July
Time: 11:00 – 12:30
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Synopsis:
The future could see the electrification of the majority of transport and heat. Are we able to generate enough...