Solar farms still most popular form of renewables, government survey confirms
Large scale solar farms remain overwhelmingly popular with neighbours and local voters, a government study has revealed.
More than four in five – or 81%...
CfD Allocation Round 4 results: Ørsted’s Hornsea 3, world’s biggest offshore wind farm, plots...
Almost £200 billion pounds of investment in Britain’s continuing green energy revolution are about to be released for nearly 11GW of new capacity, thanks...
EDF eyes south Wales for multi-tech renewables park
EDF Renewables UK is planning to develop a 100 MW renewable energy park in Neath Port Talbot.
The Hirfynydd Park will feature of a mix of...
Rebel Energy & partner sign 3,000 households to receive blockchain-certified renewables
In a move claimed as a UK first, two debutant power partners say they’ve brought low carbon electricity certified by peer-to-peer blockchain to 3,000...
British solar blazes past 15 GW, as roof-owners stave off rocketing power prices
Rocketing electricity bills now dropping onto doormats are spurring the fastest deployment of solar generation since the technology’s mass subsidies ended three years ago,...
Sunak v Truss; Tories on both sides massively support energy efficiency and renewables, poll...
Voters for both Conservative leadership candidates are almost as supportive of renewables and energy efficiency as the rest of Britain, a new survey indicates.
Results...
Essex-based world’s longest power cable venture appoints project engineers
Xlinks, the Billericay-based clean energy innovators planning a £16 billion venture to pipe solar and wind power from Morocco to Devon, have appointed multinational...
Sporty! Gridserve pit-stops to take on £200 million from M&G’s Infracapital
Solar-power-to-electric-wheels future-seekers Gridserve have secured an initial £200m equity stake from investment giant M&G’s infrastructure equity participant Infracapital.
For the five-year old e-charging and EV...
Bluefield scoops AR4 CfD contracts for 62.4MW of new solar
British renewable investors Bluefield Solar Income Fund have announced their receipt of Contracts for Difference (CfDs) covering 62.4MW of new planned capacity through the...
Investors Next Energy Solar Fund and Bluefield hike quarterly asset valuations
NextEnergy Solar Fund and Bluefield Solar Income Fund today separately signal to LSE followers quarterly rises in net asset value of 8.2% and 10%...
Octopus’ new investment partnership targets Britain’s biggest unbuilt grid battery
Building Britain’s biggest battery, capable of storing a day’s supply of renewable electricity for 235,000 Midlands homes, is on the to-do-list for Octopus Energy’s...
£327 million of new cash puts UK solar on track to double by 2030
The investment managers have raised the cash in the first phase of their NextPower UK ESG fund, a solar-specific infrastructure fund intended to double...
Ørsted snaps up first Irish solar farm
Danish renewables developer Ørsted today cast more sunlight on its intended diversification away from its core wind turbine business, as it snapped up its...
US distribution, plus fresh investment, robes solar-with-thermal pioneers Naked in western splendour
Unique solar-electricity-with-thermal-heat (SPVT) pioneer Naked Energy today received investment and a distribution deal, opening a route into America’s newly energised green power sector.
The unexpected...
SSE Renewables blows into Mediterranean, pays Siemens-Gamesa £528m for 3.8GW of wind plays
Fast-growing SSE Renewables has completed the purchase of Siemens Gamesa’s 3.8GW portfolio of wind projects across southern Europe.
The clean power division of SSE, Scotland’s...
Solar developer ups ante on planning officer’s opposition to Dorset farm
A solar development company has taken the unusual step of going public on a planning authority’s apparent choice of decision makers for its application...
“Sun more, up top!” Double-decker bus kit takes biscuit
It always happens. You wait ages for a story about electric buses, and then three come along, all at once.
On the heels of Ulster-based...
More solar “clearly in Treasury’s interest”, say lobbyists urging price reforms
Liz Truss’ new steps to curb soaring energy prices mean expanding Britain’s installed base of solar generation makes more sense than ever, trade body...
Speed up decarb efforts now and save “trillions” by 2050, Oxford study urges ...
Pushing still harder to decarbonise the world’s energy supply by 2050 promises to strip as much as $12 trillion – or £ 10.34 trillion...