Hive & Daikin team up to integrate heat pumps with smart home tech

Advanced home technology provider Hive and heat pump maker Daikin have announced a long-term collaboration to make Net Zero easier by helping customers control...

“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...

The Energyst – Latest issue out now

The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App. The Energyst is now published monthly,...

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...

House builders still dragging feet over heat pumps in new build homes, survey finds

Britain’s volume home builders are still under-performing badly against the need to include low carbon heat pumps as standard in newly built houses, figures...

Now UKPN trumpets its speed-up of new renewables connections

UK Power Networks, England’s biggest distribution network operator, is the latest to put numbers to accelerated connection of new low carbon assets across its...

‘Technical Limits’ slashes 80 months off renewable projects’ hook-up delays, NG claims

Electricity networks in England and Wales have enabled grid connection dates offered to over 200 clean energy projects to be brought forward, the National...

“Attendant, is this plane flying on batteries? I’m 77% persuaded, then. Maybe 100% by...

As many as 82% of British passengers would be open now to flying on a hydrogen-powered plane, and 77% would consider flying on planes...

Balmoral Comtec scoops contract for Hornsea 3’s 400 cable protectors

Aberdeen-based Balmoral Comtec has won a contract of undisclosed value to supply 400 cable protection systems to Ørsted for its Hornsea 3 project, located...

GE’s energy investment house buys into Essex-based Xlinks mega-venture

The investment subsidiary of former US engineering behemoth General Electric confirmed today its purchase of a $10.2 million stake in Xlinks, the £16 billion...

What Makes a Successful PPA? Webinar FAQ

Zeigo Power and King’s College London recently participated in a webinar hosted by The Energyst titled “What makes a successful PPA?”. The webinar aimed...

Octopus now officially UK’s No 1 electricity supplier, deflates B Gas

Only eight years after starting up, Octopus Energy is now the UK's biggest power supplier, official figures just released reveal. Greg Jackson’s bouncy renewables-to-heat pumps...

“Plug-in locals to citizen power, then watch renewables thrive”, think tank urges

‘Plug in Public Power’, a new report from left-aligned think tank Common Wealth sets out a blueprint for Labour’s ‘Local Power Plan’.  Author Nick...

Sam’s vision: Midcounties teams with Big Solar Co-op to trim 5% from power bill

A store manager's initiative has led to one of Britain’s biggest co-operatively owned retailers partnering with The Big Solar Co-op in quest of cheaper,...

Non-ill wind blows jobseekers some good: DWP & Crown Estate puff offshore recruitment

Ten Jobcentres in East Anglia and Lincolnshire are to be hubs for boosting awareness of skilled roles in Britain’s booming offshore wind power industry,...

Schools “need £5.4 Billion” for solar PV & LEDs, if Net Zero is to...

Photo credit: to National Grid/ Solar for Schools Britain’s 29,000 schools need up to £5.4 billion invested in lighting upgrades and on-roof solar power generation,...

Octopus takes stake in disruptor of floating turbine tech

Wind farms soon to float on the globe’s oceans and lakes are set to get cheaper and faster to build, following an investment today...

Co-op collects divi from ScottishPower’s solar PPA

Energy-to-food-to-burials supplier the Co-op Group has signed a PPA – power purchase agreement - to source electricity for its stores, funeral homes and depots...

World’s biggest floating wind farm approved for off Aberdeen

Green Volt, at 560MW expected by 2029 to be the world’s largest collection of floating wind turbines, bobbed up today with planners’ final blessings. A...

Estuary ingress: Cool new Dartford subber pumps 2GW into 1.5 million homes

A new state-of-the-art 400kV substation at Littlebrook near Dartford is now fully energised, National Grid have confirmed. The facility enables transmission of up to 2GW...