Contracts for Difference auctions open: AR4 “bigger than all the rest”
Power developers in clean tidal, solar, and wind technologies jumped at the starting gun today, competing for a slice of the government’s record £285...
Gresham & Octopus: places in the sun, riffled by a German breeze
Two leading renewables investment funds today turned in sun-kissed, wind-burnished figures for 2022’s first half, storing up wealth for their backers.
Gresham House Energy Storage...
Half-price green power near wind turbines? ”Yes, please”, say 87% of Brits polled ...
Clean electricity halved in price would persuade nearly nine out of ten British households to have an onshore wind turbine located in their postcode,...
Re-think EGL tax grab, or endanger renewables investment, REA tells Chancellor
The Chancellor’s imminent electricity generator levy (EGL) risks stalling or stifling hundreds of millions of new investment in renewables, Britain’s biggest lobbying body for...
Morocco unbound: £16 billion green power pipe mooted to Devon giga-battery
British energy entrepreneurs Xlinks have unveiled ambitious plans to link solar and wind power generated in the Moroccan desert with UK power consumers via...
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...
Grid sets new low carbon record in April
Britain’s transmission grid set a new low record for carbon intensity last month, tumbling to 33g/kWh on Monday 10 April.
80% of electricity in early...
Onshore wind supported by 80% of Brits, as renewables resisters change minds or die
Britons’ resistance to renewable energy continues to weaken even among the old, the government’s long-term tracking study of public attitudes indicates.
A combined 87% of...
Welsh ministers set 25 MW wind & storage combo free to spin above Bridgend
Developers RES have won approval for the Upper Ogmore 25 MW wind farm and battery proposal, to be sited near Blaengarw and Nant-y-Moel close...
No10’s security strategy punts nukes, offshore wind & hydrogen towards 95% clean power by...
The Johnson administration’s strategy for UK energy security released this morning sets a new 2030 deadline for 95% of Britain’s electricity to be carbon-free....
Green generator ‘lawyers up’, goes gunning for Hunt’s ‘smash & grab’ EGL
Energy ministry D-BEIS and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt face a legal threat this morning from a £2 billion investor and builder of 1.5GWp of wind...
Co-owned by locals, Britain’s biggest subsidy-free onshore wind farm is opened
Participation and community ownership in UK clean generation took a big step forward yesterday, as neighbours of Britain’s biggest subsidy-free onshore wind farm took...
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...
Wind beats gas for first time as UK’s top electricity source
Wind turbines have displaced gas for their first sustained period as Britain’s most important single source of power generation, new figures from Imperial College...
Onshore wind: Octopus commits up to £10 million to develop in Wales & Scotland
Energy provider Octopus’ development arm today announced it will invest up to £10 million in new wind farms being co-developed by specialist firm Wind...
Italian jobs: Octopus twins with Milan’s Nexta Capital
Octopus Energy Group’s continental European adventure turned south east today, as the renewables mega-developer returned to Italy, unveiling a collaboration deal with Nexta Capital,...
Capping onshore wind farms at 20 GW “could add £125 to home bills”; ECIU
Leading academic analysts have speculated that failure by the Johnson administration to free up onshore wind parks could add as much as £125 to...
Gravitricity ponders hydrogen as “porridge” for ‘Goldilocks’ storage shafts
Inertia-based power storage pioneers Gravitricity are positing steel-lined mine shafts and rock piercings nearly 400 metres deep as storage tanks for Britain’s soon-to-be-abundant hydrogen.
The...
Holyrood consults on doubling onshore wind by 2030
Scotland’s coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to boost onshore wind generation by as much as 12 GW this decade, adding to the...
“1.3 TWh of UK wind generation wasted” due to lack of grid-scale storage, developer...
Failure to store renewable electricity during Britain’s escalating energy crisis wastes clean electricity that otherwise could be used by half a million homes a...