“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...

Greencoat UK Solar & Innova ally to develop 5GW of solar & storage

UK solar received yet another boost this morning, as financiers Schroders Greencoat teamed up with developers Innova Renewables to roll out a hoped for...

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 -...

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%. ...

Knock them down, Enviromena get up again

Fresh from defeat over a planned 11.8 MWp solar farm in Dorset’s Frome Valley, developer Enviromena is this week celebrating convincing all the members...

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...