Octopus legs it deeper into Lincs, surfaces onshore in Germany
The quoted trust driving expansion for European renewables hyper-investor Octopus reached further into Lincolnshire’s biggest offshore wind farm this morning, at the same time...
Gresham & Octopus: places in the sun, riffled by a German breeze
Two leading renewables investment funds today turned in sun-kissed, wind-burnished figures for 2022’s first half, storing up wealth for their backers.
Gresham House Energy Storage...
Italian jobs: Octopus twins with Milan’s Nexta Capital
Octopus Energy Group’s continental European adventure turned south east today, as the renewables mega-developer returned to Italy, unveiling a collaboration deal with Nexta Capital,...
Equans & HM Government prime efficiency start ups with £2 million
Equans, the corporate energy & facilities management advisory offshoot of French-parented power giant Engie, is backing two British start ups in IT, targeting energy...
Teachers strike in Scotland, eh?: Canucks pile on to a quarter of SSE’s pylons
Snowy-booted visitors from northern America today descended once again on the snowy-booted electricity engineers of north Britain, as a big Canadian public-sector pension fund...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
Solar heat-with-power innovator Naked Energy buffs up, targets Portugal and Greece
“Twin solar” technologists Naked Energy are targeting new EU territories with two distribution deals announced today.
In September the Crawley-based firm, founded in 2009 by...
“Gneiss to see you!”: power storers Gravitricity ask financiers to drop in
The Edinburgh-based weight droppers kicked off this year by unveiling their FlexiStore hydrogen storage technology as a new product alongside their existing gravity-based technologies.
The...
Wind industry slams new 5-month delay in approving Hornsea 4
RenewableUK, lobbying group for Britain’s offshore wind developers, has said an impending delay until July in approving the fourth and final stage of the...
Gold rush! Gore Street buys Big in California, finds amp-sheltering Rock
London-quoted investors Gore Street Energy Storage Fund are buying big into America’s grid-scale storage market, acquiring a 200 MW project to be located in...
Guarantees of origin “could raise half capital needed to meet EU 2030 renewables goals”,...
An Oslo-based consultancy believes Europe’s growing market for honesty in proving electricity’s absence of fossil fuels could be worth as much as 57 Billion...
Quick shot! Britain’s RES to tilt at Spanish windmills
Hertfordshire-based clean energy developers and operators RES Group are entering Spain’s and Portugal’s wind turbine business.
IM FutuRe have inspected and repaired over two thousand...
Harmony and Downing trumpet clean power buys
Two London-quoted investment funds were today separately celebrating new power assets joining their portfolios.
Harmony Energy Income Trust, which invests in UK battery energy storage,...
Recyclable blades in RWE’s “world’s first” installation off England’s North East
Turbine blades capable of being broken down into their component chemistries are targeted for a world’s first deployment in Britain’s coastal waters.
Mega-utility RWE has...
Octopus deepens presence in France
Britain’s third-largest energy supplier Octopus Energy is to invest Euro 1 billion in France’s green energy market over the next two years.
The investment will...
High power prices slow firms’ investment & recruitment, 2,300 tell ABB
Sustained high energy prices are deterring spending by large and small companies on recruitment, training and investment in productivity upgrades, research commissioned by multinationational...