Switch2 Energy celebrates wins at two industry awards
Yorkshire-based Switch2 Energy, a provider of district and community heating systems, has been honoured with two prestigious awards.
The Shipley-headquartered company’s ICON connected heat interface...
Cleverer net charges & more BM players could fast-track UK’s energy transition: Cornwall &...
Reforming fees charged to use the electricity network could accelerate cost-effective decarbonisation of Britain’s electricity system, putting the UK back on track meet its...
Watchdog barks: Heatnet oversight ”will fail consumers” unless lower prices & fairer practices are...
The UK’s 900,000 heat network consumers will judge regulation to have failed if it does not deliver cheaper, fairer and more reliable heating systems,...
SP Energy Networks pockets smidgeon south of £1mill to boost grid by 20%-plus
Scottish Power Energy Networks has been awarded just south of £1million from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund to progress two innovative projects.
The grid operator’s Blade...
Konnichiwa, Kraken ! ‘Ows tha doin‘, Coventry?
Staff at fast-growing Octopus Energy were today celebrating two business successes, saluting separately the mystical Orient and the somewhat less mystical West Midlands of...
Government allocates public buildings £230 million for PSDS round 3c
The government is making a pot of £230 million immediately available to UK public authorities for heat decarbonisation and better energy efficiency in schools,...
SME-to-SME trades of clean solar power ‘cuts bills by up to 90%’ on Suffolk...
Over 140 companies on an industrial estate in Mildenhall, Suffolk, reckon their local market trading low carbon electricity is slashing bills by between 20%...
All driller, no filler: National Grid “not boring“ in south London anymore
The less interesting lower half of Britain’s capital city witnessed at the weekend an end to boring to aid flows of backbone electricity –...
Energy firms’ net zero plans blown off track by the energy crisis
Eighty percent of business leaders from UK and Ireland in the energy sector believe the energy crisis will impact their organisation’s ability to meet emissions...
BP chief Looney quits overnight
Bernard Looney, chief executive of BP since 2020, stepped down last night from the £10 million per year post, after confessing to inadequate candour...
EGL2 mega-connector wins Anglo-Scots planners’ green light
Britain’s biggest current network improvement project, the Eastern Green Link 2 subsea cable running for 291 miles under the North Sea, has secured planning...
Decarbonising industrial heat: The technologies of today and tomorrow
By Paul Miller, Sales and Marketing Director at Drax
Across an average year, industrial carbon emissions account for around 29% of global greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Broke, and broker: 3 million SMEs suffer in contact with tariff intermediaries, Octopus poll...
A poll released today by Octopus Energy for Business finds approximately 3.2 million small businesses have emerged bruised in their dealings with energy tariff...
Car decarb minister Norman urged to act on 300k charging target
Green motoring campaigners have urged decarbonisation minister Jesse Norman to add his name to moves aimed at speeding up Whitehall’s flagging drive towards 300,000...
Gore Street chooses EDF to run British third battery
Energy investment innovators Gore Street Energy Storage Fund have chosen French-owned EDF to optimise clean power trades from its new 80MW battery.
Located at Stony,...
Pylons, to a T: all of Hinkley C’s new Ts R now in place
National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project has reached another milestone, with the linking up of all 116 of its new T-pylons, designed to replace the...
Plant hire partners puff hydrogen gensets for building sites
Surrey-based AFC Energy last year launched its H-Power Generators, designed to offer zero emissions electricity to run drills, lifts and tools on building sites.
Later...
Solar energy innovators Naked buff up with Baltic partners
British solar engineering innovators Naked Energy have signed their latest European distribution deal with Axioma Service, Lithuania‘s leading provider of comprehensive engineering services.
Linking generation of electricity...
How can policy intervention add an extra boost to the UK’s growing heat pump...
The heating industry is at a crossroads with a period of exciting policy led growth for heat pumps on the horizon. However, with the...
UKRI boosts sustainable energy research with £53 million
Taxpayer-supported grant giver UK Research & Innovation is helping energy-related research at six centres, with £53 million of new money.
Greater complexities in power distribution,...