Latest Podcast: Corporate Power Purchase Agreements – A framework for the future?
The Talking Power podcast series has launched its second instalment on Corporate Power Purchase Agreements: A framework for the future? In this episode, Tim...
Heat pump boss greets government’s easing of installation curbs
A major entrant in Britain's heat pump market has welcomed the government’s intended easing of planning rules governing home installation of the low technology's...
Cabling firm XLCC hires CTO Larsen
The firm spending £1.4 billion to turn part of the Hunterston former nuclear site into Europe’s biggest cable-making factory has appointed industry veteran Vegar...
Octopus allies with NG’s DNO to speed heat pumps & home EV charging
Octopus Energy and the National Grid’s distribution business NGED are cutting red tape in a bid to speed installation of low carbon technologies in...
CCUS innovator Seabound plots course to de-carbing world’s freighters
London-based carbon capture start-up Seabound is celebrating proof of its contribution to stripping carbon emissions from commercial shipping.
Container shipping is estimated to account for...
SP Energy Networks offers Net Zero grants to community groups
A historic medieval church now in community control is among ventures to benefit from SP Energy Networks’ community fund, designed to spur technology accelerating...
EDF plugs in to market-leading PV & battery deal
Nuclear-to-renewables power supplier EdF has signed one of Britain’s biggest energy management deals, optimising revenues from a solar 66MWp farm and a 50MW grid-scale...
Carlton & Kraft Heinz opt for green hydrogen at Wigan mega-factory
Energy infrastructure innovators Carlton Power have inked a deal with groceries colossus Kraft Heinz to develop the food firm’s first ever green hydrogen supply...
Octopus buys Ireland’s biggest solar complex, feeds Microsoft for 15 years
Renewables investor Octopus has bought four newly constructed solar farms close to Dublin from Statkraft Ireland for €160 million.
The PV farms total 199MW in...
Scottish Power EN ups green asks from its suppliers
Regional distributor SP Energy Networks has set out its vision for delivering a cleaner planet in its new sustainable business strategy.
With operations stretching from...
Ease planning curbs on London’s community energy, GLA councillors urge
London’s Mayor and central government must back the capital’s solar energy volunteers with cash and by easing planning curbs which hold back City Hall’s...
British solar panel maker sets new world efficiency record
Pioneer solar technologists Oxford PV have set a new record for the world’s most efficient solar panel, marking a crucial milestone in the clean...
Amazon backs Moray West & Ocean Winds with 473MW PPA
Data colossus Amazon has signed a corporate power purchase agreement with ENGIE, increasing its share of output from developer Ocean Winds’ Moray West venture...
Drax preps US-based BECCS division to speed global carbon removal
Biomass energy leviathan Drax is targeting global leadership in carbon removal, as it sets up an independent unit to drive development of its new-build...
Downing buys 5 Swedish hydro dams
London-quoted investment trust Downing Renewables Infrastructure DORE has paid £6 million to complete the purchase of five hydropower plants in Sweden.
The dams, including one...
Good Law Project presses ministers over onshore turbines
Campaigners at the Good Law Project have begun legal action against D-ESNZ and planning ministers over the government’s exclusion of land-based wind power from...
Councils hail Britain’s biggest solar deal, as Schroders swoops for failed Toucan’s £700m portfolio
Bankrupt Thurrock Council has sold its solar investments for £700 million, offloading the 513.5 MWp portfolio of collapsed developer Toucan Energy.
In a transaction billed...
Dunelm ups solar roll-out across UK stores
Home furnishings specialist Dunelm said this morning it is stepping up solar generation on-site at its UK stores this year.
Three more sites will benefit...
Solar co-operatives: Five groups bring 36MWp into community control
Community energy volunteers have completed what they claim is England and Wales’ biggest ever transfer of solar PV to collective citizen control.
Eight solar farms...
Britain heads Europe’s offshore turbine boom, says trade group
2023 was the best year on record for new marine wind power across Europe, trade body WindEurope reports. Â A total of 4.2GW of offshore...