Co-op primes 15 year divi from Yorkshire solar farm

Britain’s biggest co-operative society the Co-op has signed a 15 year power purchase deal to draw all the output from a Yorkshire solar farm. The...

Renewables connections ‘to take wing’ as Chancellor puts £960m behind Winser recommendations

The government is pumping £960 million into a radical upgrading of Britain’s creaking grid, with chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirming ministers’ acceptance of measures proposed...

Holyrood bets £9m on Morocco power line, primes 900 Hunterston jobs

Scotland’s part was confirmed today in high private sector ambitions to pump low carbon Moroccan wind- and solar-derived electricity to Britain under thousands of...

NG drops checks on 20GW of battery plug-ins, pledges “6 Hinkley Cs” of quicker...

Backbone electricity shifter National Grid ESO today pledged cuts as high as four years in delays to connect up to 20GW of utility-scale storage,...

Sheep may safely graze on Enviromena farm at Bryngolwg, Rhigos in… which country?

Clean power services firm Enviromena have energised their first solar farm in Wales, on Bryngolwg Farm in Rhigos, Aberdare. Sparking up of the 30-acre plot...

Konnichiwa, Kraken ! ‘Ows tha doin‘, Coventry?   

Staff at fast-growing Octopus Energy were today celebrating two business successes, saluting separately the mystical Orient and the somewhat less mystical West Midlands of...

Innova plugs 25MW into green-lit Warwickshire solar site

Solar power developer Innova Renewables was today celebrating securing planning permission for an initial 25MWp of PV arrays on its site north east of...

Supplier heeds noble call to recycle argon for Indian solar mega-plant

Surrey start-up Gas Recovery & Recycle Ltd ( GR2L) has had its hopes of success inflated by a £4 million deal struck to export...

UK’s offshore wind botch should warn other governments; industry group

The failure of the UK government’s latest round of offshore wind auctions must be a watershed moment for the offshore wind industry around the...

“Oy, oy, Reg!” It’s always sunny in south Essex, hopes Veolia

Waste management contractor Veolia has sparked up what it claims is Britain’s biggest solar farm yet to be built on a restored landfill dump. The...

Offshore wind chiefs slam government’s AR5 auction failure

Developers leading the expansion of Britain’s offshore wind farms united this morning in dismay at today’s botched reverse auctions designed to boost necessary new...

Onshore oil extractors Star Energy buy into Croatian geothermal electricity

Making its first move into power generation, Britain's biggest operator of onshore oilfields Star Energy is buying into Croatia’s potential for geothermal electricity. Star is...

As 2024’s cheapest electricity source, solar PV “challenges Net Zero opponents”: SEUK

Whitehall’s confirmation that solar farms are the cheapest way to power Britain is "a wake-up call for opponents of Net Zero", says trade body...

British Gas’ nine-fold hike in profits sparks rage

Centrica. the parent of leading UK supplier British Gas Energy, today posted half year operating profits for 2023’s first six months of £2.1 billion,...

Kimberly-Clark’s Coleshill, Flint mill to run on green hydrogen, not Welsh coal or flint

A joint venture formed by Octopus Energy Generation and solar- and wind-power electricity developers RES is seeking planners’ permission to run the Welsh operations...

Octopus stretches seawards, targets £15 billion of turbines by 2030

The generation arm of renewables mega-investors Octopus Energy today announced its intention to splash a massive £15 billion – or $ 20 billion -...

Octopus extends Zero Bill homes concept, aims for 10,000 by 2025

Britain’s second largest energy supplier has found a new partner in its dream to deliver 10,000 new energy bill-free homes before 2025. Octopus Energy is...

Schapps green lights 2.6GW Hornsea Four windfarm

Ørsted’s Hornsea Four windfarm, 69km off the Yorkshire coast, has been approved by energy secretary Grant Shapps, after a five month delay. The 180-turbine project...

Pennon pays Elgin £85 million for 100MWp of unbuilt solar

Water company Pennon is paying solar developer Elgin Energy £85 million for three unbuilt solar farms totalling 100MW in potential. Today's purchase deepens the...

“Unfit” planning rules impose “4,700 year wait” to reach onshore wind’s NZ goals: IPPR

A left-of-centre think tank has called for radical overhaul of Britain’s planning laws, if targets for Net Zero energy from onshore wind and solar...