Staunch greenwash sleaze? Track carbon through grid in real time, say Elexon and ES...
Restoring integrity to tarnished "clean power" certificates can be best guaranteed with new rules and new tech, tracking carbon from seed to flower through...
London Mayor to offer grants up to £20k to insulate 3,200 fuel-poor homes
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is assembling a £51 million pot aimed at insulating the capital’s fuel-poor and leaky homes. Grants of up to £20,000...
Northern Powergrid’s communications ‘completely unacceptable’ after Storm Arwen, says minister
Communications with its customers by Northern Powergrid, the DNO with at least 1,600 homes left still unconnected ten days after Storm Arwen devastated northern...
Hydrogen fuelling London to San Francisco jets? That’ll be Fly Zero
Long haul flights for up to 279 passengers in a British-designed, hydrogen-fuelled plane blipped up as a prospect on airlines' radar this morning, courtesy...
Regulator probes transcos’ and DNOs’ Storm Arwen response
Ofgem today announced a review of transmission and distribution networks’ responses to Storm Arwen, as thousands of homes awaited reconnection after seven days of...
Top Dogger! SSE and Equinor top out £9 billion moolah mountain of world’s No1...
‘Topping out’ is a term from building, celebrating the installation of a new structure’s highest, final element. Porting the phrase this morning into wind...
Two DNOs pledge £10 Billion for RIIO-ED2 upgrades, as Ofgem fines Western Link duo...
Two distributed network operators (DNOs) including Britain’s biggest WPD today passed to Ofgem final plans totalling more than £ 10 billion for network upgrades...
Supply crisis: Brearley hints at tougher rules on retailers’ financial strength
Reforms to avoid a repeat of this year’s cull of two dozen energy suppliers must require licencees to prove greater financial resilience, Ofgem’s chief...
Bulb’s collapse pushes energy crisis’ UK victims beyond 3.5 million
Today’s collapse of renewables-only energy supplier Bulb with 1.7 million customers – praised by prime minister Johnson as recently as July as “ leading...
Ofgem’s five elements to reform the Price Cap
Britain’s power regulator this morning opened as promised a month of consultations on how to overhaul the retail price cap, after weeks of 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...
Crisis latest: Wholesale gas & electricity prices trend upwards, as Social Energy Supply &...
Pressure on wholesale gas and electricity prices intensified this week, as two more exiting licensees brought this year's toll of failed UK power suppliers...
Battery bonanza: Twenty-fold storage expansion to characterise the world in the 2020s, say Bloomberg
Energy practitioners all sense it. Now a leading consultancy is the latest to put numbers around the intuition: “The 2020s are the decade of...
Orbit Energy heads Ofgem’s hunt for unpaid FiT levies
Ofgem has issued five suppliers with provisional orders compelling them to pay a total of £575,000 now for Feed-in Tariff (FiT) payments outstanding since...
Missions to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies
22 Governments and the European Commission, collaborating through Mission Innovation, has announced four 'Missions’ to catalyse investment and action to make the clean energy technologies...
Shell moves single HQ to London, drops ‘Royal Dutch’
Fossil fuel supermajor Shell today announced proposals for its slimmed down structure, including a single headquarters and tax residence in Britain.
Subject to approval sought...
Holyrood consults on green H2, as bank warns world “50% short of electrolyser capacity...
The world will fall short by as much as half in the electrolyser capacity it needs to meet by 2030 the planet's green hydrogen...
Construction firm Multiplex to build own UK solar farm for dedicated PPA
International green building contractor Multiplex today pledged itself to the building of a new 15 MWp UK solar farm, as part of its plan...
Velocys announces long-term clean avgas deals with airline behemoths
Fuel-from-waste pioneer Velocys has made the world's biggest sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant more investible, as it detailed massive likely long-term supply deals to...
ITM Power steels itself to build Sheffield’s second electrolyser factory
Energy storage innovators ITM Power have found a home for their second 'gigafactory' in Sheffield, a £ 50 million venture planned to build electrolysers...