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MHI Vestas has broken through the “double-digit barrier” with the launch of a 10MW version of its V164 wind turbine.
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Engie has suggested changes to the charging methodology for balancing services to end an exemption for distributed generators and stop them collecting avoidance payments from suppliers.
In his keynote speech at the Labour annual conference today (26 September), the opposition leader said the investment required to deliver the party’s goal to achieve a 60 per cent cut in emissions by 2030 will create more than 400,000 skilled jobs.
Newquay-based Global OTEC Resources has received a £140,000 grant to help develop the company’s concept
Speaking in a Labour party conference fringe meeting on the transition to hydrogen, the shadow energy minister said the scale and scope of the UK’s embedded gas infrastructure ruled out a wholesale switchover to electric heating.
Labour has pledged to cut emissions to "net zero" by 2050 with new targets to dramatically increase the amount of wind power generation and eliminate fuel poverty.
France-based utility company Engie has signed its first ever white label contract with a local authority in the north west of England.
SSE has announced it is taking full ownership of the offshore wind projects under development by Seagreen Wind Energy. The move sees the company acquire the other half of shares in the offshore project from Fluor Ltd.
The UK could massively cut both carbon emissions and investment in new generation plants by using domestic boilers as "mini peaking plants", according to new research.
Drax has confirmed it is in talks with Iberdrola to buy a portfolio of gas, hydro and pumped storage plants from its UK subsidiary Scottish Power.
Scotland is outperforming the rest of the UK on reducing greenhouse gas emissions but needs fresh measures to meet its own recently introduced targets, according to parliament’s climate change watchdog.
Toshiba is holding discussions with asset management giant Brookfield about taking its stake in the troubled Moorside nuclear project.
Using excess electricity generated by wind to manufacture hydrogen could currently only provide enough fuel to replace a tiny fraction of the natural gas used in domestic heating, a new report has warned.
Davenport, who was awarded an OBE for services to renewables in 2013, founded Good Energy in 1999. She has since been appointed to the board of the Natural Environment Research Council and most recently to the board of Innovate UK.
The project is located 120km off the coast of Yorkshire and will feature 174 of Siemens Gamesa’s 7MW SWT154 turbines - giving it a total capacity of 1,218MW. It will become the world’s largest offshore windfarm when it is commissioned in 2020.
The UK and India have held talks in London about the two countries’ shared commitments
The UK has hit 20GW of wind generation capacity following last week’s opening of the world's biggest windfarm off the coast of Cumbria.
Research will focus on understanding the “increasingly complex interactions between electricity, gas, heat and transport systems, resulting in a suite of software tools that can provide a range of possible futures for the UK’s energy system”.
"Renewable electricity has a significant role to play in decarbonisation, but it is only part of the story"
Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has unveiled the design for what it claims will be the
