Marine

Liverpool advances plans for world’s largest tidal scheme

More than £1bn of annual subsidies up for grabs in this year’s CfD auctions

Energy and water schemes make up half of UK’s planned £775bn infrastructure spend

AR5: a turning point for tidal stream?

No offshore wind in fifth CfD round

CfD boost is ‘too little, too late’

‘Not a single person in supply chain’ thinks UK will hit net zero targets

Not a single person in the supply chain believes UK net zero targets will be achieved. That is the damning conclusion of the Energy Industries Council’s (EIC) annual Survive & Thrive report into global energy supply chains. Based on the views of 96 supply chain bosses, the EIC report concludes that “widespread delays in project funding strongly signposts that the UK is not going to meet its legally binding 2050 net zero target, and neither will Scotland meet its 2045 target”.

Drax gets green light for pumped storage hydro plant

Government urged to make tidal stream a ‘strategic priority’

Tidal stream power should be a strategic priority for the UK, a leading climate change expert has urged. Lord Stern – who chairs the London School of Economics’ Grantham Institute of Climate Change – made the remarks in the university’s report on the UK’s sustainable energy opportunities. In particular, the report says the UK has an opportunity to take a lead in rolling out tidal stream technology with the potential to deliver 100GW of electricity worldwide.

SSE to pay out almost £10m over excessive ESO payments

Wales launches tidal lagoon challenge despite past woes

The Welsh Government has launched a tidal lagoon challenge, putting up £750,000 to fund at least three research projects. The funding will be used, in part, to address barriers that have prevented previous schemes being developed such as the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon.

SSE pumps £100m into Coire Glas hydro storage scheme

CfD budget ‘sends the wrong investment signals’

‘National war effort’ needed on energy efficiency

Offshore wind moved into mature technologies CfD pot