UKRI boosts sustainable energy research with £53 million

Taxpayer-supported grant giver UK Research & Innovation is helping energy-related research at six centres, with £53 million of new money. Greater complexities in power distribution,...

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...

Cornwall: “Wait to late 2030s for a return to pre-Covid prices”

Respected energy economists Cornwall Insight expect no return to pre-Covid power prices before the late 2030s at the earliest. Despite Europe’s & the world’s continuing...

Thanks a £ million: Power Roll gets Durham’s & EU’s cash to boost thin-film...

Sunderland-based solar electricity innovators Power Roll today benefit from a £1 million cash injection to expand production of their light, flexible thin film, billed...

Recycled solar panels? CSG avoids holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

A Lancashire firm is aiming to stop end-of-life solar panels going to landfill, launching a service aiming to recycle as much 96% of every...

Crown Estate tweaks rules for world’s biggest floating turbine tender

Developers seeking to anchor up to 4GW of floating turbines in the Celtic Sea face new rules from the Crown Estate. The Estate’s ownership and...

Tartan ink seals deal to build world’s No 2 turbine park off Suffolk

ScottishPower Renewables has signed a contract to install foundations and inner-array cables for the East Anglia THREE windfarm with Seaway7, part of the Subsea7...

Charging provider ev.energy allies with Maxeon for power from home PV roofs

Smart charging provider ev.energy is linking with Maxeon Solar Technologies to power EV chargers with home-generated solar electricity. The UK partner has committed to use...

Essex goals, Warwickshire blues: EDF secures UK solar first, as Coventry opts for blue...

French-controlled nuclear generator EDF’s Renewables arm has won Whitehall consent to build the company’s first UK solar farm. Due to be commissioned in 2025, EDF’s...

REA honours Octopus’ Jackson & Net Zero reviewer Skidmore

Octopus co-founder Greg Jackson and Chris Skidmore MP, Conservative reviewer of the Johnson administration’s low carbon plans, pictured, have received awards from trade body...

National Grid taps £540k social fund, puts first solar panels on a school

The regional DNO operation of Britain’s privatised National Grid has chipped in £10,000 towards its first ever direct solar PV installation, generating now on...

Ukraine trio spur Scottish Power towards Net Zero

Scottish Power’s call for 1,000 new recruits to speed up the UK's journey to Net Zero has been answered by a trio of skilled...

Europe “back on track to build 30GW of solar kit by 2025”: industry chiefs

Continental Europe is back on course to re-build its manufacturing capacity in solar panels and inverters beyond 30GW as early as 2025, industry experts...

Octopus “mass-roofs” street with solar PV, embraces Community Energy

Green power innovators Octopus Energy have completed their first ever venture into community energy, by roofing more than a dozen homes in one East...

NG zooms for industry views to speed renewables hook-ups

National Grid ESO has opened its latest round of consultation events, aimed at tapping industry wisdom to speed up connections for new renewables generators. Over...

Co-ops hail Starmer’s “turbo-charging” of volunteers’ & Town Halls’ renewables

Community Energy England, the Renewable Energy Association and a leading advocate of collective ownership of power assets have welcomed Labour’s £400 million pledge today of...

Downing whets (sic) Southern Water’s solar ambitions with £12 million

Investment management firm Downing is backing Southern Water with around £12 million to build 12 new solar electricity facilities to run the utility’s treatment...

Thumbs up for THOM, as Chameleon colours in heat pump picture

A consortium of innovators led by energy pioneers Chameleon Technology has secured government cash to smooth Britain's installation of heat pumps. Reassuring consumers &...

ECIU: Freeze new N Sea gas now, and make up 2030’s power loss from...

A halt now to licencing new North Sea gas would lose UK electricity production in 2030 easily replaced with the output of an average-sized...

Energy groups hit back at mangled media messages

Two examples of off-beam journalism about clean energy have drawn counterblasts from practitioners’ representatives. Screened on Monday, a 'Panorama' examination of Britain’s supposed unpreparedness for...