Onshore wind remains stifled by poor planning rules, 100 activists tell Shapps and Gove
Leading environmentalists and prominent green energy entrepreneurs are confronting ministers Michael Gove and Grant Shapps, pressing them to deliver on freeing up onshore wind...
Guarantees of origin “could raise half capital needed to meet EU 2030 renewables goals”,...
An Oslo-based consultancy believes Europe’s growing market for honesty in proving electricity’s absence of fossil fuels could be worth as much as 57 Billion...
To replace, or not to replace? “What is government’s heat pump policy?”, asks utilities...
A trade body representing utilities firms has accused energy minister Lord Callanan of “chaos” in going against his own department’s policy over heat pumps...
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...
UKPN & Octopus partner to offer fuse instals with home heat pumps
A first re-fuse-al for homes fitting heat pumps to protect neighbourhood grids at the same time is the aim of a combined offer from...
EV drivers “seven times more likely” to have home solar installed
Solar installers have always sensed the link between EV drivers and a solar array on their homes' roofs. Now power retailers Good Energy and...
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...
Lords slam government over heat pumps replacing boilers
Britain’s £450 million drive to strip out domestic boilers in favour of lower carbon heat pumps is under-publicised, under-staffed and under-performing, a committee of...
Salted (sic) for Is and whizz: Mancs brave Italian brine to lift lithium
A Manchester University spin-off has signed a deal with an Italian mining company aimed at making lithium in commercial quantities.
Watercycle Technologies, a deep tech...
UK gross offshore wind pipeline a whisker below 100 GW
Marine turbine parks either already built, under construction or earmarked for development in UK waters together total 99.8GW across 130 projects, figures from the...
Highest home solar instals for seven years, says MCS watchdog
Domestic installations of on-roof solar electricity systems boomed last year to their highest peak since 2015, the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) has reported.
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Zenobē reaches financial close on Phase 1 of world’s first 300 MW battery hooked...
Ground is being broken at Blackhillock, between Aberdeen & Inverness, to deliver the first 200MW of a planned 300MW storage project. Zenobē say it’s...
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...
Good Energy hots up SET rivalry; plans roll-out to 80,000
Long-standing green energy pioneer Good Energy, Britain's biggest voluntary Feed-in Tariff (FiT) administrator with over 80,000 generation customers, has launched a new smart export...
Wind industry slams new 5-month delay in approving Hornsea 4
RenewableUK, lobbying group for Britain’s offshore wind developers, has said an impending delay until July in approving the fourth and final stage of the...
“Red & yellow & pink & green”; Ministers seek to sing hydrogen’s simpler rainbow
Standardising hydrogen’s often confusing palette of colours and sources is the government’s aim in its proposed new certification scheme, announced today.
Verifying the sustainability of...
VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide
Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide.
The...
Lack of long-duration batteries “costs UK £60 Billion in four months”: and the Germans...
Britain’s continuing failure to store renewable electricity at scale has left the country wasting £ 60 billion on imported gas over just four months...
“This could be the last energy crisis”; Octopus’ Jackson
The past two years’ turmoil in world power and gas supply could yet make it ‘the last energy crisis’, Octopus Energy founder Greg Jackson...
Tale of two molecules: CPH2 expands, ITM Power takes stock
Clean hydrogen innovators were this morning reflecting on further moves in the gas’ advance to commercial maturity.
The deal grants the Kiwi firm non-exclusive rights...