Smart meters box clever through strongest year for data growth
Britain’s national network of smart meters, developed and maintained by the Data Communications Company (DCC), grew by over 6.3 million meters last year, a...
Public opposes Hunt’s “punitive” focus of EGL tax grab on clean generators, poll finds
Pressure increased today on chancellor Jeremy Hunt to scrap his “punitive” five-year Energy Generator Levy windfall tax on green generators’ sales, with resisters releasing...
Green generator ‘lawyers up’, goes gunning for Hunt’s ‘smash & grab’ EGL
Energy ministry D-BEIS and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt face a legal threat this morning from a £2 billion investor and builder of 1.5GWp of wind...
Bluefield & Octopus tie up PV deals – though not with each other……
Solar photovoltaics’ progress to ousting planet-cooking hydrocarbon from electricity generation advanced still further this week, exemplified today by Bluefield Solar Income Fund.
The investment vehicle...
Re-think EGL tax grab, or endanger renewables investment, REA tells Chancellor
The Chancellor’s imminent electricity generator levy (EGL) risks stalling or stifling hundreds of millions of new investment in renewables, Britain’s biggest lobbying body for...
Octopus completes acquisition of Bulb
Extravagantly paid energy tyro Hayden Wood’s “too-big-to-fail” failed supplier Bulb, once the doyen of lying premier Johnson, finally collapsed into the arms of Octopus...
Infrastructure Bank offers councils £4 billion for heat networks, as D-BEIS warms three towns’...
More than £30 million from public funds is set to benefit heat networks in Hull, Peterborough & Wigan.
Projects in the first two cities are...
‘Intelligent Octopus’ inks charging deal with brand owner of Peugeot, Fiat and Alfa Romeo
Car maker Stellantis, manufacturer of brands including Citroën, Fiat, Jeep, Alfa Romeo and Peugeot, has signed a deal to provide extended charging for its...
Shapps reverses Truss ban, launches homes insulation drive in third week in December
Energy secretary Grant Shapps did at the weekend what libertarian PM Liz Truss refused to two months ago, launching an £18 million publicity drive...
Zenobē signs Stateside deal with Japanese partner
Founded only five years ago, the London-based operator says its 235MW of grid-connected batteries in the UK contributes to its status as the largest...
Hunt ponders how to extend support for industries’ power bills beyond March
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reportedly asked Treasury officials to explore ways of prolonging into April & beyond the government’s protection of firms from their...
Grid capacity – the bottleneck on net zero?
Electrification is surging throughout the UK, but grid capacity limits threaten to slow down the transition to net zero.
The simplest way for any business...
Government finds £102 million at Christmas to prime new nuclear & hydrogen
The Sunak administration today presented early gifts to investors in nuclear power and advanced hydrogen, finding parcels of £77 million and £25 million respectively...
Planners green-light Britain’s biggest battery, and first CCUS plant in Lincs
Innovative generation projects on opposite sides of Britain have this week received planning approval, speeding innovation in the nation’s dispersal and deployment of practical...
Sunak heartens England’s pro-wind heartlands, Coffey backs 3b land
Frictions within prime minister Rishi Sunak’s increasingly internal fragile coalition of in-office Conservatives have brought new comfort this week to developers of land-based green...
Thanks, Vladimir: Solar PV to replace coal as planet’s top power source by 2027,...
Renewables will be the world’s main source of electricity as early as 2027, the United Nations’ energy authority states bluntly today.
In its global survey...
Supermarkets team up with power co-ops to urge more green generation
High Street food giants including Tesco, M&S and Morrisons have joined forces with Community Energy England, calling for faster progress by PM Rishi Sunak...
Ofgem tables RIIO-ED2 decisions, draws capex map to 2028 for nets’ upgrades, storage, clean...
Under-fire regulator Ofgem today confirmed RIIO-ED2 investment plans, shaping six DNOs’ capex budgets which will fund upgrades and improvements in 14 local networks up...
Shapps greenlights Sizewell C, subsidised with £679 million of public cash
D-BEIS secretary of state Grant Shapps today confirmed the government’s approval for - and £679 million underpinning of - the 3.2GW Sizewell C nuclear...
Spring time for fitters: ECO+ drive promises to save UK homes £350…. but only...
The government today trumpeted a £ 1 billion programme intended to plug leaks in Britain’s homes, notorious as Europe’s leakiest. But it won’t start...