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...
Cero and Enso agree financing on 50MW battery for Larks Green
The developers of Britain’s first solar farm now generating directly into the nation’s transmission network have agreed financial terms to add a 49.9MW battery...
Solar’s “untapped potential” on commercial roofs & car parks is target of new government-industry...
Warehouses, car parks, schools and shopping malls hold the key to boosting by a factor of five Britain's solar electricity output, or so a...
Netcos launch plan to speed connections for renewables
Operators of Britain’s power grids have outlined a three-step blueprint to speed up connections awaited by clean energy developers.
An unprecedented 164GW of connection requests...
Ripple Energy offers UK’s first solar farm in shared ownership
Local investors and Britain’s citizens keen on clean power are the target backers for what's claimed as Britain’s first consumer-owned solar farm in shared...
Paper maker Kimberly-Clark opts for Octopus’ & RES’ on-site green hydrogen
Green hydrogen made on site is set to heat boilers at UK factories making Kleenex, Andrex & Huggies paper products, under an initiative launched...
Good Energy inks its biggest offtake deal from Hornsea 1
Long-standing clean power supplier Good Energy has struck its biggest ever offtake deal for carbon-free electricity, targeting corporate & household customers.
Hornsea 1, operated by...
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...
Government’s £205 m fifth round CfD allocation “too low”, say green investors
Renewables investors have attacked as inadequate the government’s earmarking of £205 million for its latest Contracts for Difference bidding round.
The figure was revealed by...
ib vogt & financiers DIF swoop for UK’s biggest storage-and-solar portfolio
Solar farm operators ib vogt and financiers DIF Capital have signed a deal for future purchase of 720MW of consented solar PV sites, in...
Smart phoning: Vodafone dials into 5 solar farms, as domestic on-roof PV instals double
Mobile telecoms giant Vodafone has reached agreement with Centrica and solar developer Mytilineos to fund five new PV farms, capable of providing it with...
Fashion retailer H&M finds good (non-FiT) fit with Lightsource bp on two Midlands farms
Fashion shoppers in Swedish brand H&M’s UK stores will now be browsing its wares in light provided by clean power made on British solar...
“Scots, Tera-watt hey!” Holyrood to plug in 20GW more green capacity by 2030, ponders how...
Scotland’s devolved government has unveiled plans to accelerate still further the heady growth already seen in the nation’s clean generation capacities.
The ruling SNP’s “Energy...
Public opposes Hunt’s “punitive” focus of EGL tax grab on clean generators, poll finds
Pressure increased today on chancellor Jeremy Hunt to scrap his “punitive” five-year Energy Generator Levy windfall tax on green generators’ sales, with resisters releasing...
Uncoupling renewables’ retail prices from thermal? Drax’s take on 2022 glut boosts the case
Record-breaking renewables output onto Britain’s grid across 2022 couldn’t stop homes and businesses paying almost double 2021's prices for their electricity, academics commissioned by...
Green generator ‘lawyers up’, goes gunning for Hunt’s ‘smash & grab’ EGL
Energy ministry D-BEIS and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt face a legal threat this morning from a £2 billion investor and builder of 1.5GWp of wind...
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...
Bobbing, off Cork: Octopus raises stake in turbine floater Simply Blue
Octopus Renewables Investment Trust first invested in the Cork-based group in August 2021, buying a 12% stake. Today’s purchase raises its interest to 15.5%. ...
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...