Octopus pledges £1.5 bn to Japan & Asia
Green power mega developer Octopus will invest £1.5 billion in Asia’s energy markets by 2027, helping speed the region’s transition to cleaner, smarter energy.
The...
‘Renewables acting like baseload’: Octopus joins Essex-based £16 Bn pipeline to Morocco
Green mega-investor Octopus is teaming up with Billericay-based energy entrepreneurs seeking to pump renewable electricity from southern Morocco to Britain.
Essex start-up Xlinks announced in...
Octopus now officially UK’s No 1 electricity supplier, deflates B Gas
Only eight years after starting up, Octopus Energy is now the UK's biggest power supplier, official figures just released reveal.
Greg Jackson’s bouncy renewables-to-heat pumps...
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...
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...
DEFRA “considering solar ban on lower quality English farmland”
Britain’s solar industry reacted with alarm this morning and a stinging rebuttal to the Truss government's reported desire to ban lower grade farmland for...
SSE pledges £153 million to enter offshore wind in Japan
SSE Renewables has allied with one of Japan's biggest wind power developers, to pursue offshore projects around the nation’s islands.
The Perth-based generator-developer today said...
Amazon backs Moray West & Ocean Winds with 473MW PPA
Data colossus Amazon has signed a corporate power purchase agreement with ENGIE, increasing its share of output from developer Ocean Winds’ Moray West venture...
Morocco unbound: £16 billion green power pipe mooted to Devon giga-battery
British energy entrepreneurs Xlinks have unveiled ambitious plans to link solar and wind power generated in the Moroccan desert with UK power consumers via...
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...
Three solar mega-farms win Labour energy secretary Miliband’s approval
Energy secretary Ed Miliband has given the government’s consent for the construction of three nationally-significant solar farms in the east of England.
Low Carbon’s Gate...
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...
Ørsted to pump Hornsea 3 juice into 600MWh battery near Norwich
Wind power developers Ørsted are committing to store electricity from their 1.2GW Hornsea 3 marine farm next to a substation at Swardeston, near Norwich
The...
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...
GE’s energy investment house buys into Essex-based Xlinks mega-venture
The investment subsidiary of former US engineering behemoth General Electric confirmed today its purchase of a $10.2 million stake in Xlinks, the £16 billion...
Essex-based world’s longest power cable venture appoints project engineers
Xlinks, the Billericay-based clean energy innovators planning a £16 billion venture to pipe solar and wind power from Morocco to Devon, have appointed multinational...
New boss for Morocco-to-Devon solar & wind venture
Xlinks, developers of a £16 billion scheme to pipe solar & wind power from Morocco to Britain, have a new CEO.
James Humfrey, pictured, has...
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...
China “to install 2.5GW of green hydrogen projects this year”: analysts Rystad
China will breeze past its 2025 target for 200,000 tonnes of renewable hydrogen a year, as the country is on track to install 2.5GW...
Britain heads Europe’s offshore turbine boom, says trade group
2023 was the best year on record for new marine wind power across Europe, trade body WindEurope reports. A total of 4.2GW of offshore...