Wind beats gas for first time as UK’s top electricity source
Wind turbines have displaced gas for their first sustained period as Britain’s most important single source of power generation, new figures from Imperial College...
Food & beverage makers sign up for government efficiency incentives
Leading drinks & food brands Heineken, Tate & Lyle and Kellogg’s are among recipients dividing a £24.3 million pot of government grants designed to...
Grid sets new low carbon record in April
Britain’s transmission grid set a new low record for carbon intensity last month, tumbling to 33g/kWh on Monday 10 April.
80% of electricity in early...
Larks Green is UK’s first solar farm hooked direct into NG backbone
Britain’s first solar farm with a direct connection into the National Grid’s transmission system has gone live.
The 50MWp Larks Green facility near Bristol has...
Octopus floats five-point plan to ease grid connections
Queue-jumping, weeding out legacy upgrades, more collaboration between developers, and a data-driven approach for regional network operators, are among remedies proposed today by Octopus...
Heat network operators Gren buy in for UK debut
Baltic-based heat network operator Gren is entering the UK market, buying eleven energy assets including CHP stations from investment managers & developers Equitix.
Seven UK...
Powerhouse takes full control of hydrogen-from-waste venture at Protos
Plastics-into-clean-hydrogen innovator Powerhouse Energy has negotiated full control of its Cheshire manufacturing venture from landlord and partner Peel NRE.
The technology firm told investors this...
Solar surges to eight year highs, promises more
Britain’s solar installers are busier than for nearly a decade, boosting the nation’s PV capacity by 5.3% in the past twelve months to 14.9GWp...
Xlinks secures £30 million more, preps for next stage of Africa-Devon pipeline
British renewables mega-engineers XLinks have taken on £ 30 million of new equity, secured to fund the next phase in building their 3,800 kilometre...
France and Norway feed UK’s return to net electricity imports
2023’s opening quarter saw an end to the UK’s previous nine months as a net exporter of power, energy data analysts EnAppSys have revealed.
The...
UK academics join European hunt to improve perovskites
Researchers at Teesside & Leicester universities are taking part in a multi-million pound project to develop more efficient and sustainable solar cells, through use...
Shapps unveils Anglo-Dutch interconnector at North Sea energy summit
A new 1.8GW subsea electricity interconnector, billed as the world’s largest serving multiple users, is to be built between the Netherlands and Britain’s east...
Siemens Gamesa steels itself for low-carbon towers off Danish coast
Engineering multinational Siemens Gamesa says its next generation of turbine towers will be built from steel with a 63% lower carbon footprint than before. ...
Plane-makers’ merger presages hydrogen-powered Islander revamp
An iconic British plane was today absorbed into a new venture promoting zero admissions flight.
A hydrogen-powered version of the Britten-Norman Islander light transport may...
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...
YLEM launches power trading platform
Clean power company YLEM Energy is launching a peer-to-peer platform, as it branches out from its core business of managing onsite power generation for...
AFC leases hydrogen-based mega-generator to Spanish partner
A three month trial in Spain of fuel cell pioneer AFC Energy's H-Power clean hydrogen-based generator has convinced the firm to extend its product...
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...
Government to tweak CfDs in quest of wider recognition & more capacity
Britain’s hugely successful flagship policy supporting clean electricity is to be reformed, as ministers ponder extending its rewards to developers for the sector's non-financial...
”Another government green flop”: EUA lambasts ministers on Boiler Upgrade Scheme
Poor performance figures for numbers of heat pump installations achieved under the government’s subsidised Boiler Upgrade Scheme have drawn scathing criticism from trade body...