Ceres eyes China expansion via Weichai and Bosch
Shares in Ceres Power, the fuel cell innovator in solid oxide technologies, surged nearly 25% in the LSE this morning, on news that it...
Schtum on prices, Centrica boss says UK gas supplies ‘unaffected’ by Putin’s Ukraine attack
British Gas’ eleven million consumers will face no interruption to gas supply after Vladimir Putin unleashed his duplicitous attack today on democratic Ukraine, Centrica’s...
Green Heat Networks Fund to offer £288 million for hot and cool pipes
Energy ministry D-BEIS today advertised its intention to seek bids from heat network operators, eager to extend low carbon heat and chills to homes...
Cremz! Gore Street plugs into its first battery in continental Europe
First-moving energy storage fund Gore Street today extended its portfolio of amp hotels and coulomb crèches beyond the British Isles, buying 90% of an...
Frack Britain back to the future, demands backbencher, as oil hits $130 a barrel
The Conservative leader of the hard-right Net Zero Group this morning announced a co-ordinated call for a revival of Britain’s fracking industry, in response...
New broom TRIG sweeps up 8% of Hornsea One, world’s biggest wind farm, &...
Green investors The Renewables Infrastructure Group have bought 7.8% of the world’s biggest working wind farm off Yorkshire, and will tap investors over the...
Liquidity help urgently needed to ride out Europe’s energy crisis, say traders
An emergency life-raft of time-limited liquidity support is needed if Europe’s wholesale energy markets are to survive the price rollercoaster caused by the globe's...
National Grid to pocket £4.2 bn in cash and financing, as its exit proceeds...
National Grid has found a buyer for Britain’s gas pipes and meters, as it continues its retreat from the energy source en route to...
Van diesel furious to be up against solar’s fast frigid air
On-roof solar electricity supplanting diesel as the preferred power source for truck refrigeration got a £3 million boost today.
Government-backed investment angels the Clean Growth...
Gore Street seeks £75 million to secure more of 1.3 GW project pipeline
Clean tech investors Gore Street Energy Storage Fund are seeking another £75 million to secure continued expansion of its 1.3 GW roster of projects.
Launched...
Gresham House stores up projects, packs unbuilt pipeline to 717 MW, eyes Anglo phone
Britain’s biggest investment fund for grid-scale batteries charged ahead in 2021, posting record figures today. Overseas markets beckon, its chairman signalled this morning.
Gresham House...
French oil giant elects to Mac-ron more of carbon cutting goals
Influential shareholders in France’s biggest hydrocarbon extractor TotalEnergies have welcomed its decision to accept a timetable for stripping carbon from its activities.
Before its AGM...
Peaking blinder! Huge Hams Hall h-“amp hotel” approved near M6 toll; up to 1,750...
Future extension to around 1,750 MWh in total capacity is included in approval granted for the Hams Hall location.
With partners Luminous Energy, the Clapham-based...
Bluefield pays £112.4 m for 93.2 MWp of wind & solar, gives investors till...
Fast-expanding UK-focused clean energy investor Bluefield Solar Income Fund has bought 15 solar farms and four wind farms, and today announced a rights issue...
Diesel out, batteries in: Pulse Clean Energy and Canadian Solar plug in for 100 MWh
Pulse Clean Energy has signed a partnership with power innovator and PV kit-maker Canadian Solar to convert four UK-resident diesel generators into 100MWh of...
Greencoat pays £400 million for eighth of Hornsea 1, world’s biggest offshore wind farm
The purchase from current half-owners Global Infrastructure Partners is expected to complete before this October.
It will leave ownership of the 1.2 GW Hornsea 1...
Octopus and UK Infrastructure Bank entwine, eager to splash cash
State-backed but operationally independent green investor, Leeds-based lender the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) today laid the cornerstone for funds providing ‘second stage’ capital for...
Bluefield picks up two 40 MW batteries, seeks ready shovels
LSE-listed battery and PV investors Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) is paying fellow financiers Green Hedge Capital approximately £4.5 million for two standalone 40...
UK advances to 3rd on EY’s world renewables beauty parade
Britain has moved up two places to 3rd position on the biannual RECAI attractiveness index for renewable power investment, compiled by management consultants EY.
The...
SSE posts full year Prelims: Pre-tax up 44% as reported, or 23% up, ‘steady state’-adjusted
Energy major SSE, with over 5 million domestic accounts, today posted preliminary accounts reflecting how big retailers got bigger during the year’s cull of...