‘Renewables acting like baseload’: Octopus joins Essex-based £16 Bn pipeline to Morocco
Green mega-investor Octopus is teaming up with Billericay-based energy entrepreneurs seeking to pump renewable electricity from southern Morocco to Britain.
Essex start-up Xlinks announced in...
Holyrood bets £9m on Morocco power line, primes 900 Hunterston jobs
Scotland’s part was confirmed today in high private sector ambitions to pump low carbon Moroccan wind- and solar-derived electricity to Britain under thousands of...
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...
Green hydrogen “cheaper now than grey” say analysts, as Getech eyes Shoreham as H2...
Soaring gas prices have rendered green hydrogen cheaper now in the UK than its grey, methane-based sister, analysts have claimed.
London-based consultancy ICIS calculate that...
Vood you believe it? Germany debuts world’s first lumber-sourced turbine blades
The sustainability of materials used to generate electricity through wind power took a step forward today, as a German manufacturer announced a prototype turbine...
Paper maker Kimberly-Clark opts for Octopus’ & RES’ on-site green hydrogen
Green hydrogen made on site is set to heat boilers at UK factories making Kleenex, Andrex & Huggies paper products, under an initiative launched...
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...
Co-op a look, Donald! UK’s biggest community-owned wind farm half way to spinning citizen-controlled...
Four of eight permitted turbines have now been erected at a pioneering new wind farm in Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, on Scotland’s south west coast.
Together rated...
New boss for Morocco-to-Devon solar & wind venture
Xlinks, developers of a £16 billion scheme to pipe solar & wind power from Morocco to Britain, have a new CEO.
James Humfrey, pictured, has...
Peel & E.ON start work at Liverpool Docks on UK’s ‘biggest rooftop solar install’
Ports operator Peel Group is partnering with its power supplier E.ON to install what they expect to be Britain’s biggest roof-mounted solar PV system.
The...
Electrifying! Rail pension fund extends platform, buys ticket to AGR’s returns
Pension fund managers Railpen have bought a 50% shareholding in AGR Power, a privately owned British renewable power developer, with over 1.1GW already generating...
Wind farms to pay back £660 million, as levies lead to lower costs
Britain’s investment in renewables, supported by ‘green levies’ on energy bills, is lowering electricity costs, with some of Britain’s oldest, more expensive wind projects...
Renewables output in 2023 ‘enough to power all UK homes‘, ECIU calculates
Academics at the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit say the 90TWh of electricity generated in 2023 by Britain’s wind, solar and hydro sectors alone...
Plots for Kilowatts: Octopus ups pressure on nimbys
In an initiative this morning certain to provoke rural Conservative MPs, but probably to be welcomed even by shire-dwellers, onshore wind champions Octopus Energy...
“Generational change”, as much as losses, spins turbine boss out of the door
Jochen Eickholt, pictured, head of turbine maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa, is to quit both his post and the company this summer, the victim of restructuring...
Good Law Project presses ministers over onshore turbines
Campaigners at the Good Law Project have begun legal action against D-ESNZ and planning ministers over the government’s exclusion of land-based wind power from...
2022’s grid is UK’s second greenest ever, as wind output beats 20GW
Renewable sources set new records for UK electricity generation last year, beaten only by 2020’s year of peak lockdown.
Wind, hydro and solar together accounted...
Octopus to Canada’s civil servants: ‘Ta for your $300 million. More coming, eh?’
Christmas arrived early today for Octopus Energy Group, as Britain’s fast-growing generator-retailer commanding nearly 6% of domestic power accounts welcomed a $300 million equity...
Solar: Good Energy quits generation, SSE snaps up first PV project
The sun rose this morning on a changing solar landscape across Britain, as clean energy pioneer Good Energy quit generation and renewables super-developer SSE...
Onshore wind passes 15GW milestone, still narrowly exceeds offshore capacity
Britain’s wind power developers are celebrating reaching 15 gigawatts (GW) of onshore wind capacity now fully operational, enough to power 9.9 million homes all...