London’s energy co-ops surge, in quest of Mayor’s 1 GWp of solar by 2030
Influential volunteer-led co-operatives are punching above their weight in bringing citizen-controlled renewable power, overwhelmingly solar PV, to Britain's capital city, a conference hosted online...
Sunak heartens England’s pro-wind heartlands, Coffey backs 3b land
Frictions within prime minister Rishi Sunak’s increasingly internal fragile coalition of in-office Conservatives have brought new comfort this week to developers of land-based green...
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...
“Once more unto the Breach”: Iceland plugs into Octopus’s Cambs solar farm
Frozen food chain Iceland Foods is the latest High Street brand to sign a PPA (- power purchase agreement -) with a power retailer...
Konnichiwa, Kraken ! ‘Ows tha doin‘, Coventry?
Staff at fast-growing Octopus Energy were today celebrating two business successes, saluting separately the mystical Orient and the somewhat less mystical West Midlands of...
China “to install 2.5GW of green hydrogen projects this year”: analysts Rystad
China will breeze past its 2025 target for 200,000 tonnes of renewable hydrogen a year, as the country is on track to install 2.5GW...
Directory of heat networks sets out to start war on Britain’s wasted heat
Bin-emptying trade body the Environmental Services Association today publishes its “EfW Heat Network Directory”, bidding to put right the UK’s scandalous waste of heat...
Fleetsolve partners to accelerate industrial decarbonisation
Fleetsolve has confirmed its status as a UK Solution Partner to the Engine Business of Siemens Energy (this business has been recently sold to...
Kwarteng seeks to calm energy chiefs, as Price Cap’s architect calls for its overhaul
Beleaguered energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng won the support of Britain’s power bosses today, reassuring them that vulnerable consumers would be continue to be protected,...
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...
Strategy review at Powerhouse due ‘around time of AGM’
An operational review of business activities at Powerhouse Energy, the Merseyside-based extractors of clean hydrogen from end-of-life plastics, is expected to be complete by...
EQTEC gets Billingham ducks in a row, prepares clients to be billing ‘em
Multi-fuel energy innovators EQTEC have unveiled latest steps in bringing their Teesside mega-plant to fruition.
CEO David Palumbo’s enterprise last month announced a partnership intended...
Planners green-light Britain’s biggest battery, and first CCUS plant in Lincs
Innovative generation projects on opposite sides of Britain have this week received planning approval, speeding innovation in the nation’s dispersal and deployment of practical...
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...
Green body hails Sunak envoy’s levelling up agenda via geothermals
The Renewable Energy Association has welcomed a government-commissioned report which identifies geothermal heat as a means to "level up" struggling communities.
Prime minister Rishi Sunak...