RWE signs first UK solar PPA, commits Notts & Northhants farms to Kerry Group
German energy leviathan RWE, a leading power producer in the UK, has signed its first solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Britain.
Benefitting for at...
Mapping for wind & solar: England “can produce 13x more clean energy than now”,...
Easing barriers to new onshore wind and solar power could see England alone producing 13 times more low carbon electricity than at present on...
Using PPAs to further your net zero commitments
GridBeyond, possibly more well known among The Energyst’s readers as a energy flexibility company not only now offers power purchase agreements for both suppliers...
Consumer champion presses minister to help 500k heat networked homes
As Ofgem's latest price cap sends average household energy bills to their lowest level in two years, a consumer body is sounding the alarm...
Bradford clears way to big green hydrogen plant
One of Britain’s biggest planned clean hydrogen plants has been approved for Bradford, west Yorkshire.
Development partners Hygen and N-Gen have secured planning consent for...
UKPN unveils location tool for community & council green energy projects
Distribution system operator UKPN has launched a planning tool to help volunteer energy co-ops and town hall planners identify sites for low carbon power...
Greenpower Park unveils £2.5bn ambition for clean energy jobs in Coventry
Plans to place Britain at the centre of the accelerating green industrial revolution took a step forward today with the launch of Greenpower Park...
Cranfield secures £69 million to boost hydrogen-as-SAF research
Cranfield University is to deepen its research into hydrogen as a sustainable aviation fuel, following its biggest ever grant win.
A £69 million injection will...
Labour to boost floating wind & revoke Sunak’s North Sea licences
Senior Labour figures today backed floating wind farms off Britain’s coasts as essential to delivering the party’s policy on clean energy.
Sir Kier Starmer &...
Ofgem greenlights first faster Grid upgrade with up to £2 billion
The first project to proceed under a new fast track approval process designed to expand Britain's grid at speed, has received up to £2...
Enviromena swoops for 70MWp Medebridge solar project
Clean energy developer Enviromena has bought an unbuilt 70MWp solar farm at Medebridge, Essex for an undisclosed sum.
Sited close to the Thames near Orsett,...
Boom-free summer for bomb squad, defusing mines across offshore turbine site
Making safe unexploded World War II mines lingering under the North Sea across an imminent wind farm plot is the business of specialist contractors...
ESO’s £58 Billion price tag to add 86GW to Grid
Britain’s backbone network operator has published its expansion blueprint, designed to extend by 86GW the nation's transmission capacity in the run up to 2035.
The...
Peel & E.ON start work at Liverpool Docks on UK’s ‘biggest rooftop solar install’
Ports operator Peel Group is partnering with its power supplier E.ON to install what they expect to be Britain’s biggest roof-mounted solar PV system.
The...
Octopus buys half of German green developer
Octopus Energy’s generation arm is investing in renewables developer Lintas Green Energy in a move to turbocharge Germany’s energy revolution, bringing bills down for...
D-ESNZ approves NGrid’s Yorkshire GREEN upgrade
Energy secretary Claire Coutinho has granted a development consent order (DCO) for the Yorkshire GREEN Energy Enablement project, clearing the way for National Grid...
SSE partners with developers to transform defunct Welsh coal plant
Power infrastructure firm SSE Energy Solutions has signed an agreement with local authority-linked developers CCR Energy to turn a defunct coal-burning power station into...
Hydrogen generator raises £3m to boost innovation
A British company pioneering a new means of making hydrogen from natural gas or biogas has raised £3million from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance,...
Coutinho:Â New unabated gas ‘needed beyond 2030’; REMA needs local pricing
Energy secretary Clare Coutinho today pledged to build new CCGT power stations as replacements for ageing gas generators. The new plant, Coutinho accepts, is...
Corporate PPAs within a wider net zero context – webinar
Power Purchase Agreements provide financial certainty to you and the project developer, which removes a significant roadblock to building new renewable facilities. What are...