Kraken to launch energy tech super-centre in Manchester
The ever-expanding software platform underpinning Octopus Energy, Britain’s biggest power retailer, is launching what it calls Britain’s first superhub for digital energy technology. Manchester...
Can-ada-do: Octopus’ service platform takes toehold in New Brunswick
Kraken, the fast-growing utility service provider at the heart of Britain’s Octopus Energy, has signed its first licencing deal in Canada.
Headed by Devrim Celal,...
Rendesco pumps up £6m to expand low carbon heat networks
Operator of non-gas heat networks Rendesco has raised £6 million to boost its operations and develop more under-home pipelines in the UK & continental...
Storage heavyweights Highview raise £300 million to bring UK’s biggest LAES battery to Manchester
Compressed gas storage specialists Highview Power have raised £300 million from investors including Centrica & the UK Infrastructure Bank to build Britain’s first grid-scale...
Vood you believe it? Germany debuts world’s first lumber-sourced turbine blades
The sustainability of materials used to generate electricity through wind power took a step forward today, as a German manufacturer announced a prototype turbine...
Naked Energy raises £17m, in share float round led by E.ON & Barclays
British solar heat & power firm Naked Energy announced today that it has secured £17 million of new equity to supercharge its global expansion...
Steel city forges plan to swap gas for green hydrogen
Switching Sheffield’s world-renowned steel forges from gas to locally produced green hydrogen could cut CO2 emissions by as much as 40%, a government-funded study...
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...
Ceres eyes China expansion via Weichai and Bosch
Shares in Ceres Power, the fuel cell innovator in solid oxide technologies, surged nearly 25% in the LSE this morning, on news that it...
Good Energy wades into row over EUA “lobbying to slow heat pumps“
A major all-renewables supplier has stepped into allegations that trade body the Energy & Utilities Alliance has been influencing ministers to delay Britain’s rollout...
Rolls-Royce and NPL ally to monitor mini-nukes
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Rolls-Royce SMR are partnering on a new project to investigate safe automated reactor operation for nuclear-powered Small Modular...
E.ON ex-boss takes over at Energy Systems Catapult
Dr Tony Cocker, former CEO of E.ON UK, has been appointed the new chair of Energy Systems Catapult, the independent research body tasked to...
Johnson Matthey & Thyssenkrupp pledge to advance blue ammonia
Metallurgists & sustainable technologists Johnson Matthey are teaming up with chemical plant builders Thyssenkrupp Uhde to promote ways of making ammonia, with lower carbon...
SME-to-SME trades of clean solar power ‘cuts bills by up to 90%’ on Suffolk...
Over 140 companies on an industrial estate in Mildenhall, Suffolk, reckon their local market trading low carbon electricity is slashing bills by between 20%...
Renewables firms turn up heat in Ohio and in Lithuania
Two UK-based innovators in the renewable energy space are stretching their wings, both westwards and eastwards.
Oxford-headquartered Velocys, convertors of end-of-life plastics into sustainable aviation...
Merseyside WTE plant for Eqtec and Anaergia
Hydrogen and biofuels firm Eqtec is partnering up to build a multi-input waste-to-energy plant at Southport’s Hybrid Energy Park, Merseyside.
The technology innovators announced this...
Vision thing: Government launches aspirations for competitive CCUS
Ministers are sharpening their long-term vision of creating a competitive UK market for carbon capture and storage (CCUS).
In a policy programme dubbed CCUS Vision,...
Balmoral Comtec scoops contract for Hornsea 3’s 400 cable protectors
Aberdeen-based Balmoral Comtec has won a contract of undisclosed value to supply 400 cable protection systems to Ørsted for its Hornsea 3 project, located...
Towering in-farm-o: V-FAST gorges on vertical feast
Vertical, temperature-controlled, giant indoor fruit and veg farms powered by Scottish renewables are the vision of a four-company consortium announced today.
Power storage and clean...
Crikey & Thunder! Pom solar boffins go Dutch on Outback jalopy jaunt
Solar electricity innovators Oxford PV are deploying their patented perovskite-on-silicon tandem cells for the first time as an automotive power source, motivating the Top...