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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ofgem’s ’decade of lax oversight’ leaves consumers on hook for billions, Citizens Advice charges
Britain's energy regulator failed to act against unfit energy suppliers for nearly a decade, leaving the market vulnerable to this year’s spike in wholesale...
Co-op aiming to tackle Scope 3 emissions with aggregated PPA
Co-op Power has partnered with Zeigo to tender 100GWh per annum for a ‘Co-operative’ PPA – the equivalent of powering over 32,000 homes per year. The Co-op as...
Grid-scale power storage as long as 24 hours “must reach up to 2.5 GWh...
Grid-scale capacity to store electricity for between two and 24 hours will need to rocket up 400 times on current deployments, reaching between 1.5...
Inspired to cut power usage in data server barns
Believed to be guzzling as much as 2% of the entire planet’s electricity now - and already at 11% in Ireland, - data centres...
Enthusiasm un-curbed: Zap-Map signs Connected Kerb as Zap-Pay’s eighth charge point operator
Clean power retailer Good Energy today broke the news that its E-mobility navigation wing Zap-Map has welcomed an eighth charge point operator onto its...
National Grid half year results: Pre-tax up 75%, op profit up 47%, capex up...
Britain’s privatised backbone system operator pleased investors today with strong results for the six months to September.
Against a steady-state base of continuing activities, National...