World’s most powerful turbines could power Vattenfall’s 3.6GW farms in North Sea
With rotors a massive 236 metres in diameter, the world’s biggest wind turbines could be generating power off Norfolk from 2024, if Vattenfall gets...
Britain “has 40 fossil fuel projects awaiting planners’ approval before 2025”
The UK has a pipeline of at least 40 major projects in oil, gas or coal extraction and refining awaiting planning consent, environmental analysts...
Welsh and Scots cities benefit from green marine power, green H2 and green mobility
Three cities outside England may reap rewards from major green developments, under proposals announced coincidentally in recent days.
Blue Eden is Swansea's latest £1.7 billion...
World’s biggest floating wind farm boosts Scotland’s grid, as RWE pledges £ 15 Bn
Six turbines floating up to 80 metres above the North Sea bed have started spinning current into Britain’s grid, developers Grupo Cobra have confirmed.
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Pivot hooks UK’s first tertiary battery to Grid, as Anesco contracts for two big...
The sophistication of battery innovations now hooked to the grid took a leap forward this week, with two major announcements.
In a UK network first,...
Co-owned by locals, Britain’s biggest subsidy-free onshore wind farm is opened
Participation and community ownership in UK clean generation took a big step forward yesterday, as neighbours of Britain’s biggest subsidy-free onshore wind farm took...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...