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Northumbrian Water signs UK’s first offshore wind PPA with Orsted

Northumbrian Water has signed the UK’s first corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) for offshore wind

6 years ago

Council agrees £62m deal to build ‘pioneering’ subsidy-free solar farms

6 years ago

Renewable energy consultancy misled public on oil policy

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered a renewable energy consultancy to remove a “misleading and unsubstantiated” claim about government policy on oil from its website.

6 years ago

CMA launches probe into RWE/Eon deal

The probe will examine whether the major European asset swap transaction will likely lead to a “substantial lessening of competition” in the UK energy market.

6 years ago

SSE pays out £705,000 over feed-in tariff misreporting

SSE overstated generation payments in its feed-in tariff (FIT) annual submissions to Ofgem due to an “administrative error” and will now pay out more than £705,000.

6 years ago

Scottish Power to invest £2bn in clean energy in 2019

6 years ago

Growth in US pellet business swells Drax profit

6 years ago

Government to publish energy white paper ‘in early summer’

Pressed on the timing of the long-awaited policy paper last week during a debate on small modular reactors (SMRs) in the House of Commons, junior business minister Richard Harrington, said: “That will happen in the next few months—in early summer.”

7 years ago

Manifesto demands stronger support for community energy

7 years ago

Nicola Sturgeon defends resurrection of tidal project fund

Scotland's first minister has defended her government’s resurrected tidal project fund against the concern that it is "window dressing".

7 years ago

Office for Nuclear Regulation appoints new chair

7 years ago

Hydrogen is a hot technology

UK CO2 emissions are falling and the country is on track to meet its short-term

7 years ago

Ofgem reveals ROC buyout price for 2019/20

Ofgem has announced the mutualisation ceilings for the 2019-20 obligation period are £293,831,481.82 in England and Wales, an increase of £9.3 million on the year previously.

7 years ago

Claire Perry responds to solar subsidy shake up concerns

7 years ago

Ofgem rejects interim capacity market charge on suppliers

Ofgem has rejected a proposal to introduce an interim charge on suppliers to cover the costs of the capacity market during its ongoing suspension.

7 years ago

CCC advises ‘no gas connections’ for new homes from 2025

No new homes should be connected to the gas grid from 2025 at the latest, the government’s climate change watchdog has recommended as part of a wide-ranging package of measures to cut emissions from the UK’s housing stock.

7 years ago

Scottish Power profits soar after late influx of customers

Big six energy provider Scottish Power has announced today (20 February) its business results for 2018 were up 187 per cent.

7 years ago

CEO View: Renewable self-generation is a right, not a privilege

"Today there is over 6GW of installed capacity on the register. A good chunk more than the UK’s largest single power station"

7 years ago

Energy firms get ‘no clarity’ on preparing for no deal Brexit

Tanisha Beebee, senior policy adviser on energy and climate change at the CBI, said the notices being provided by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) about the UK withdrawing from the EU without a deal on 29 March are "very, very basic".

7 years ago

Swansea Bay resurfaces

Last summer, it looked like the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project was well and truly

7 years ago