NIC: Increasing renewables to 65 per cent ‘won’t cost any more’
Policymakers should increase targets for renewable power from 50 per cent of the generation mix to 65 per cent by 2030, according to the...
Gridserve buys Anesco’s Clayhill solar and storage farm
Gridserve has acquired Anesco's co-located solar and storage farm at Clayhill.
The deal comes as Gridserve gears up to open its first electric forecourt at...
Government urged to unlock 18GW of ‘shovel ready’ batteries, solar and wind
Analysis by Regen shows there are 18GW of ‘shovel ready’ battery storage, solar and wind projects that could be quickly kickstarted if government genuinely...
AFC Energy raises £32m to scale hydrogen fuel cells
Hydrogen fuel cell developer AFC Energy has raised £31.6 million in new capital in a bid to scale.
The firm plans to make bigger units:...
An ale called Gale: BrewDog 100 per cent wind powered from July
BrewDog will brew its beers from wind power from mid-July.
The company last month outlined plans to invest in three turbines totalling 2.4MW.
The move is...
Swiss-Re backed carbon removal market targets gigaton scale-up
A marketplace matching corporates trying to decarbonise with carbon negative materials producers is bidding to remove gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Early clients...
Yorkshire Water seeks bidders to build 150 solar arrays
Yorkshire Water is seeking bidders to deliver 150 solar PV arrays across its sites.
It has opened the tender for a new eight year framework,...
EDF partners with Octo for 200MW solar-storage push
EDF Renewables has partnered with developer Octo Energy in a bid to find and develop sites for co-located solar and storage.
The two will be...
Peel and Powerhouse push on with plastic to hydrogen plan
Peel plans to back up to 11 plastic-to-hydrogen parks via a partnership with PowerHouse Energy.
Peel is PowerHouse’s landlord at Protos Energy Park in Cheshire...
Drax to trial Mitsubishi’s biomass-with-carbon-capture tech
Britain’s biggest biomass burner Drax is to pilot new biomass energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from this autumn.
The...
Hydrogen fuel cells ‘set for takeoff’ after first UK test flight
A company planning to enable commercial hydrogen-powered flights by 2023 yesterday completed the UK’s first 'commercial scale' electric test flight.
The flight, from Cranfield in...
Simec Atlantis gets nod for first 12MW of Normandy tidal power
Simec Atlantis has taken a step towards first megawatts of tidal power off Normandy after getting approval from authorities to transfer a 12MW development...
Carlton Power and Highview to build 250MWh liquid air energy storage plant
Carlton Power and Highview Power are partnering to build a massive cryogenic liquid-air energy (LAES) plant in Manchester.
Carlton has been trying to build a...
John Lewis and Air Liquide build biogas plant to fuel trucks
John Lewis is building a biogas plant to help decarbonise its distribution fleet of trucks. The Waitrose owner plans to switch its 4,800-strong fleet...
SSE green lights UK’s biggest onshore wind farm, £580 million Viking project
SSE is set to build Britain’s biggest onshore wind farm, the 443MW Viking project on Shetland.
At peak output, Viking’s 103 turbines will generate around...
National Grid extends EDF contract to turn down Sizewell B
National Grid has extended the contract it struck with EDF to reduce output from the Sizewell B nuclear station in a bid to keep...
UK goes coal free as gas, renewables and biomass take up slack
The UK has gone two full months without calling on coal-fired power stations for electricity generation.
Coal use has declined dramatically in recent years, with...
ITM Power bullish on hydrogen prospects post Covid-19
Hydrogen firm ITM Power today brushed off a full year unaudited loss of £17.6m, bullishly reporting a record pipeline of £21.8m in committed contracts,...
Total and SSE strike deal to build Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm
Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm is to go ahead, backed by French oil leviathan Total.
SSE Renewables yesterday reached financial close on the 1GW Seagreen...
Anesco goes Dutch with Shell solar deal
Anesco is to build two solar farms for Shell in the Netherlands, the firm's first contracts outside the UK.
It will develop a 12MW scheme...