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...
Simec Atlantis CEO: Share price “set for the mother of all corrections”
Simec Atlantis CEO Tim Cornelius thinks the firm’s share price, just seven per cent of its 2014 IPO, is “set for the mother of...
BT and Plug and Play aim to find, scale and invest in UK clean...
BT has partnered with a US firm in a bid to bring UK clean tech firms to market. The telecoms giant aims to use...
Statkraft adds Warrington Council’s solar-storage to VPP, hits 2.6GW
Statkraft has signed a hybrid power purchase agreement with Warrington Borough Council for its 35MW solar farm in York, co-located with 27MWh of battery...
Green light for 350MW mega solar farm in Kent, 700MWh storage to follow
Britain’s biggest solar PV farm to date, the 350MWp Cleve Hill project near Faversham, Kent, has been given the go ahead.
The £450 million development...
Greenpeace slams mega solar farm in Kent, Drax closes in on 3.6GW gas giant
Two minute briefing on energy stories to start the week:
Britain’s biggest solar farm, Hive Energy and Wirsol Energy’s £450m Cleve Hill project on...