Mitie buys installer Custom Solar for £12.4 million
Facilities and buildings management leader Mitie has bought PV installers Custom Solar, it told investors today.
The fee for the company based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire,...
Floating offshore wind: Britain leads the world
The UK leads every other nation possessing a coastline in our innovation of floating wind turbines, both in numbers of operating spinners, and in...
Climate scientists: Johnson administration talking big, under-delivering on carbon transition
Britain’s path to net zero is being imperilled by the Johnson’s government’s over-reliance on long-term targets, market mechanisms, unproven new technology’, and not enough...
Octopus & public pension fund partners buy 12.5% of world’s biggest windfarm
Renewables mega-investor Octopus Energy Group is teaming up to pay a combined £400 million for a one-eighth stake in Hornsea One, the world’s biggest...
Thirty GW by 2030: Ørsted deigns to deliver 48% steady state growth
Europe’s leading turbine spinners Ørsted today posted first half results that see the Danish operators advancing steady state earnings by nearly 50%, to 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%...
Graze expectations: Birds, bees, bugs & biodiversity bigged up in new solar guide
Wild creatures munching grass and sipping nectar from flowers flourishing on pesticide-free ground beneath solar arrays are the focus of a guide just released...
Solar chiefs to PM: Get real, and un-Truss more land for PV
Bosses of Britain’s busy solar sector today gave the government food for thought, urging solar sceptic Liz Truss to get behind the industry.
Representatives of...
H2 trick! Carlton nets third hub, secures consent for City’s green gas plant serving...
Manchester’s third hat-trick in 24 hours arrived this morning, as innovators Carlton Power announced planning clearance for the North West’s first low-carbon hydrogen hub.
Trafford...
UK floating turbines bob to all-time high
British investment in floating offshore wind schemes has hit record highs, buoyed by worldwide enthusiasm for the technology, a report out today reveals.
Experts at...
Zenobē signs Stateside deal with Japanese partner
Founded only five years ago, the London-based operator says its 235MW of grid-connected batteries in the UK contributes to its status as the largest...
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...
Shapps “will not add H2 introduction charge” to bills; hints other green levies may...
An interview given by energy secretary Grant Shapps yesterday has prompted new speculation that green levies mandated to spur renewables could return to bills...
“Naysayers”, “wading through treacle” & policy voids dog Britain’s booming green sector, REA finds
Britain’s Net Zero commitments are being hampered by government hesitancy & ambiguity around the nation’s otherwise surging green economy, a leading trade association claims...
Every photon helps: Tesco to install solar on 100 more stores before 2027
Mega-retailer and solar power leader Tesco has unveiled plans to install PV arrays on one hundred more of its UK stores in only the...
Developer Renewco launches with SSE’s blessing
A new clean power developer launched this week in Edinburgh, buoyed with £ 24 million worth of backing from industry giant SSE.
Renewco Power, co-led...
Solar energy to power Apple’s data centre
NV Energy and Apple have announced an agreement to build 200 megawatts of additional solar energy in Nevada by early 2019. The projects will...
Apple to build new ‘green’ data centre in Iowa
Apple has announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art data centre in Waukee, Iowa, to better serve North American users of iMessage, Siri, the...
CNet launches data centre sustainability programme
A new distance learning initiative, focused on sustainability, has launched by CNet in response to calls from data centre professionals for a programme to...