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...
Four big battery plants to ease Scotland’s clean transmssion
Over 1GW of new power storage was announced this morning for Scotland's transmission grid.
Innovators Xenobe revealed plans for three amp hotels with a combined...
Chaos follows MPs’ fracking debate: Tory whips “resign” then “un-resign”, after Rees-Mogg seeks clearer...
A Parliamentary vote on a Labour ban on fracking ended in chaos last night, amid allegations of ministers physically pushing their own MPs into...
Italian jobs: Octopus twins with Milan’s Nexta Capital
Octopus Energy Group’s continental European adventure turned south east today, as the renewables mega-developer returned to Italy, unveiling a collaboration deal with Nexta Capital,...
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...
H2 trick! Carlton nets third hub, secures consent for City’s green gas plant serving...
Manchester’s third hat-trick in 24 hours arrived this morning, as innovators Carlton Power announced planning clearance for the North West’s first low-carbon hydrogen hub.
Trafford...
Octopus legs it deeper into Lincs, surfaces onshore in Germany
The quoted trust driving expansion for European renewables hyper-investor Octopus reached further into Lincolnshire’s biggest offshore wind farm this morning, at the same time...
SSE Renewables blows into Mediterranean, pays Siemens-Gamesa £528m for 3.8GW of wind plays
Fast-growing SSE Renewables has completed the purchase of Siemens Gamesa’s 3.8GW portfolio of wind projects across southern Europe.
The clean power division of SSE, Scotland’s...
Scotland’s biggest wind farm plumbs world-beating depths to spin for first time
The first power has flowed from Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm, the 1.075GW Seagreen project 27 kilometres off the nation’s east coast, south of...
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...
Octopus & public pension fund partners buy 12.5% of world’s biggest windfarm
Renewables mega-investor Octopus Energy Group is teaming up to pay a combined £400 million for a one-eighth stake in Hornsea One, the world’s biggest...
EDF eyes south Wales for multi-tech renewables park
EDF Renewables UK is planning to develop a 100 MW renewable energy park in Neath Port Talbot.
The Hirfynydd Park will feature of a mix of...
Anesco to part-decarbonise Dragon’s LNG terminal
Gas terminal operator Dragon LNG has teamed up with solar developer Anesco to build a 35-acre PV farm on its land near Milford Haven,...
Crown Estate bobs up likely licence zones for floating turbines in Celtic Sea
The independent body defining licencing zones for Britain’s coastal waters today uncorked plans to define operational patches of the Celtic Sea soon to see...
Merseyside WTE plant for Eqtec and Anaergia
Hydrogen and biofuels firm Eqtec is partnering up to build a multi-input waste-to-energy plant at Southport’s Hybrid Energy Park, Merseyside.
The technology innovators announced this...