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...
Onshore wind: Octopus commits up to £10 million to develop in Wales & Scotland
Octopus Renewable Investment Trust says it has already invested £2.5 million in the first of nine newly formed joint venture companies for projects. ORIT...
Solar:Â 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...
Ofgem hints at June green light for £3.4 billion Anglo-Scots ‘renewables superhighway’
Regulator Ofgem has inched closer to approving two giant undersea interconnectors totalling 4 GW and funded to the tune of £3.4 billion, together hailed...
Graze expectations: Birds, bees, bugs & biodiversity bigged up in new solar guide
Wild creatures munching grass and sipping nectar from flowers flourishing on pesticide-free ground beneath solar arrays are the focus of a guide just released...
Merseyside WTE plant for Eqtec and Anaergia
Hydrogen and biofuels firm Eqtec is partnering up to build a multi-input waste-to-energy plant at Southport’s Hybrid Energy Park, Merseyside.
The technology innovators announced this...
Octopus & public pension fund partners buy 12.5% of world’s biggest windfarm
Renewables mega-investor Octopus Energy Group is teaming up to pay a combined £400 million for a one-eighth stake in Hornsea One, the world’s biggest...
H2 trick! Carlton nets third hub, secures consent for City’s green gas plant serving...
Manchester’s third hat-trick in 24 hours arrived this morning, as innovators Carlton Power announced planning clearance for the North West’s first low-carbon hydrogen hub.
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Chaos follows MPs’ fracking debate: Tory whips “resign” then “un-resign”, after Rees-Mogg seeks clearer...
A Parliamentary vote on a Labour ban on fracking ended in chaos last night, amid allegations of ministers physically pushing their own MPs into...
Four big battery plants to ease Scotland’s clean transmssion
Over 1GW of new power storage was announced this morning for Scotland's transmission grid.
Innovators Xenobe revealed plans for three amp hotels with a combined...
Solar farms ‘no threat to food security’, PV industry tells Coutinho
Industry lobbyists Solar Energy UK have welcomed a parliamentary statement today by D-ESNZ chief Claire Coutinho, - pictured - as confirmation that existing land...
Ørsted to pump Hornsea 3 juice into 600MWh battery near Norwich
Wind power developers Ørsted are committing to store electricity from their 1.2GW Hornsea 3 marine farm next to a substation at Swardeston, near Norwich
The...
Wake up to 8-hour storage: Ceres and RFC enjoy breakfast of (ch)Amps &...
Fuel cell firm Ceres Power this morning teamed up with RFC Power, an Imperial College spin-off, in quest of the world’s most efficient flow...
Wrapped or open? BP chips in for portion of fuel innovator
Oil giant BP today boosted its portfolio of next-generation transport fuels, as it snapped up 30% of Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), Britain’s leading supplier...
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...
Industrial heat pumpers Futraheat raise glass to £1.5 million, eye up brewery trial
London-based industrial clean heat start-up Futraheat has closed a £1.5 million investment round led by green investors Clean Growth Fund. A brewery trial of...
UK’s biggest li-ion recycling plant set to open “within weeks”
Britain’s biggest facility for recycling lithium from batteries along with associated cobalt, manganese and & nickel, moved closer to reality today, as the Environment...
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%...
Crikey & Thunder! Pom solar boffins go Dutch on Outback jalopy jaunt
Solar electricity innovators Oxford PV are deploying their patented perovskite-on-silicon tandem cells for the first time as an automotive power source, motivating the Top...
CCUS innovator Seabound plots course to de-carbing world’s freighters
London-based carbon capture start-up Seabound is celebrating proof of its contribution to stripping carbon emissions from commercial shipping.
Container shipping is estimated to account for...