Atlantis says its 6MW tidal turbine array in Pentland Firth, Scotland, has completed all tests and entered its 25 year operations phase. The milestone caps more than a decade of work. The company will turn its attention to scaling its operations and commercialising tidal stream technology. The first phase of the 6MW MayGen project uses Read more…
Emerging solutions: Can wind, rocks, coal mines and salt decarbonise heat?
Many bright minds are trying to harness renewables to decarbonise heat and deliver broader system benefits. The Energyst outlines some interesting projects taking place in the UK and Germany. A weekend heat store Chris Sansom is Associate Professor in Concentrating Solar Power at Cranfield University. His UK research focuses on novel materials for seasonal heat Read more…
Northumbrian Water signs deal with Ørsted to go 100% renewable
Northumbrian Water will power all 1,858 of its sites using renewable electricity for the next four years after signing a deal with Ørsted. Ørsted owns or has a stake in nine UK offshore wind farms (Barrow, Burbo Bank, Burbo Bank Extension, Gunfleet Sands, Lincs, London Array, Walney, West of Duddon Sands and Westermost Rough). It Read more…
Google hits 100% renewables goal with 3GW contracted, eyes more
Google has hit its target to use 100% renewable power. The firm said it now has contracts in place to purchase 3GW of output from renewable sources and plans to fund construction of more power plants. Urs Hölzle, senior vice president for Technical Infrastructure, said Google’s accounting for 2017 showed that it had bought more Read more…
Half of UK’s power from low carbon sources as renewables top 40GW
Low carbon sources accounted for 50.4% of power generated last year, according to latest government data, overtaking fossil fuels. However, the UK’s total energy consumption remains more than 80% reliant on fossil fuels, and transport consumption continues to rise. Generation Total UK generation output in 2017 was 335.9 terawatt hours. Of the generation mix gas Read more…
Electric vehicle boom no sweat, says National Grid
National Grid has said the power system could cope with an overnight boom in electric vehicles (EVs) and that the extra generation capacity required to handle millions of vehicles is no big deal. Nine million electric vehicles on UK roads might require 8GW of extra power generation capacity if people charge them when they like. Read more…
Pennon: Only upside for energy from waste as demand outstrips supply
Viridor owner Pennon Group says demand for energy from waste facilities continues to outstrip supply with the firm looking for potential new sites. In a market update, however, the company said contractual issues at its new build facility in Glasgow may take a chunk out of profit over the project lifetime, depending on the outcome Read more…
Scottish Power chief: You’re bonkers if you think we will build offshore wind ‘subsidy-free’
Scottish Power chief executive Keith Anderson has questioned the apparent obsession with achieving ‘subsidy-free’ renewables, warning it will not happen any time soon in the UK for technologies such as offshore wind. Anderson took part in a panel debate around ‘post-subsidy’ renewables at Aurora’s Spring Conference. Asked which markets are most attractive to parent company Read more…
Eon boss: Renewable power is done, now for heat and transport
Eon CEO Michael Lewis believes the UK has largely cracked decarbonisation of power generation and must concentrate on heat and transport, which is where he said the energy company will concentrate its efforts. Speaking at Aurora’s Spring Forum, Lewis, who took the reins from Tony Cocker a year ago, applauded the policy stability of successive Read more…
Vattenfall backs hydrogen to decarbonise heavy industry, eyes supply chain ownership
Vattenfall believes hydrogen created from renewable power could decarbonise heavy industry such as steel and cement production – and the firm wants to own the supply chain from generation to storage. CEO and president Magnus Hall told the Aurora Spring Forum that “fossil-free steel on a full scale will, I think, be deployable between 2030 Read more…
Green Frog offspring Enso strikes joint venture to develop 600MW portfolio
A joint venture between an energy asset investor and a developer aims to bring 600MW of ‘shovel ready’ distributed energy projects to market. Investor Arlington Energy and Enso Energy, previously the development arm of the Green Frog group, has raised an initial £10m to develop its project pipeline. A spokesperson told The Energyst the JV Read more…
Aurora: Bring renewables into reformed capacity market to save money
Bringing unsubsidised wind and solar power into a reformed capacity market would save bill payers hundreds of millions of pounds, according to a new paper from Aurora Energy Research. Aurora counts Dieter Helm as a director and the report outlines his plans for an ‘equivalent firm capacity auction’ as mooted in the recent Cost of Read more…
German giants Eon and RWE strike major deal, move closer together
Germany’s largest utilities are set to move closer together after striking a deal for Eon to acquire RWE’s share in Innogy with RWE taking a significant stake in Eon in return. The agreement, subject to shareholder approval, would also see RWE pay Eon €1.5bn in cash Eon to make a buy offer to Innogy shareholders. Eon Read more…
Energy minister Claire Perry: Bring on mine water heat projects
Energy minister Claire Perry has thrown her support behind projects to turn old mines into source of renewable heat. The topic of geothermal heat came up in a wide ranging debate on energy efficiency and the and Clean Growth Strategy in Westminster yesterday (Thursday 8 March). It comes as local authorities look again at tapping Read more…
Stobart on track to deliver 2 million tonnes of biomass per year
Stobart Group anticipates that it will hit its target of delivering 2 million tonnes a year of biomass to power stations around the country by the end of 2018. In a trading update, the firm said Stobart Energy was managing costs and that profit per tonne was ahead of target. While some power stations the Read more…
Tender launched for 3.15MW geothermal electricity plant
The firm aiming to develop deep geothermal power at Redruth in Cornwall has launched a tender for provision of a generating plant of up to 3.15MW. Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) aims to generate both renewable power and heat from natural heat sources deep underground. The company, which has significant geothermal expertise, believes it can deliver Read more…
The Renewables Infrastructure Group eyes offshore wind, batteries and PPAs as solar tightens
The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) believes offshore wind and battery storage may offer better value than solar acquisitions in current market conditions. Posting a 32% increase in pre-tax profits for the full year to £90.2 million, the company suggested its first investment in offshore wind, a 14.7% stake in Sheringham Shoal, could be followed by Read more…
John Laing pays £11m for 5MW anaerobic digestion plant, eyes more
John Lanig Environmental Assets (JLEN) has acquired a 5MW anaerobic digestion plant for around £11m. The Icknield Farm AD plant, at Ipsden, South Oxfordshire, produces green gas for grid injection and also has a 400kW CHP that generates both RHI and FiT payments. The investment is JLEN’s second in AD, following a £15m deal for Vulcan Renewables Read more…
Ørsted posts big profits, plans solar, energy storage and services business
Ørsted, the Danish energy company formerly known as Dong, has outlined plans to push into energy storage, services and solar power. Posting strong profits for 2017, CEO and president Henrik Poulsen said Ørsted has “established a new unit focusing on energy storage and solar PV projects, and we also look into onshore wind”. Meanwhile, the Read more…
Holland’s largest gas producer launches energy storage tech competition
Holland’s largest gas producer has launched a competition to try and crack long-term energy storage. The €50,000 cash prize is small. But the winners get to scale up their technologies within NAM’s operations and infrastructure and will receive a contract to do so. NAM is a joint venture between Shell and Exxon Mobil. It operates Read more…
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