Conventional generation

National Grid to develop proposals to link up British and Dutch windfarms

‘Overlapping’ levies should be replaced with ‘single, simple’ carbon charge

Using blockchain to accelerate decarbonisation

Scottish Power teams up with electrolyser firm to roll out hydrogen refuelling network

SSE seeks consent to boost size of proposed Strathy South windfarm

SSE sells stake in Walney offshore windfarm to Greencoat

EDF to shut down Hunterston B nuclear plant by January 2022

RWE completes foundations for Triton Knoll offshore windfarm

Equinor signs seabed lease agreements for offshore wind extensions

Government slashes renewable cost forecasts

Making a market for PPAs

Unite ballots workers over proposed Drax redundancies

Workers at the Drax power station in North Yorkshire have been voting this week in a ballot for strike action over 230 proposed redundancies, the Unite Union has revealed. Unite has accused Drax of backtracking on a verbal pledge made last year that there would be no compulsory redundancies among the 600-strong workforce, a claim Drax denies.

Latest coal-free run ends after 55 days

Green activist seeks judicial review of proposed emissions trading scheme

Prospect union calls for 10GW of new nuclear by 2030