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National Grid’s Antony Green writes for Utility Week about a project to create a hydrogen backbone across the UK to join key industrial areas together and allow broader access across the country.
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Octopus Energy Group has added £3.4 billion worth of renewable energy projects to its portfolio with the acquisition of sister company Octopus Renewables. From June the large retailer will manage Octopus Renewables’ European portfolio of more than 300 green assets under new business arm Octopus Energy Generation. Chris Hulatt, co-founder of Octopus Group, the parent company of both businesses, said he hoped the move would unlock a “multitude of new investment opportunities”.
Renewables furnished a bigger share of UK electricity generation than fossil fuels for the first full year ever in 2020, according to new government statistics. Utility Week delves into the details.
Action needed to cut emissions to net zero is threatened by the “fragile” nature of the political consensus surrounding it, which could be seized on by populist parties, a new report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has warned.
In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, there are interviews with Alistair-Phillips Davies and Hayden Wood, chief executives of SSE and Bulb respectively, as well as with former National Grid boss Steve Holliday. Meanwhile, the government is considering how to designate more rivers as bathing waters.
A greater reliance on electrification of the energy system and a limited rollout of hydrogen and carbon capture infrastructure across the UK will lead to higher emissions from industry by 2050, the government’s industrial decarbonisation strategy has said.
EDF has trialed a new self-service app to support the testing of its workforce for Covid-19, ensuring critical work can continue at its nuclear sites during outages. The company says the testing has enabled it to continue with its statutory outage programme without interruption and without any disruption to service.
EDF has been given permission to restart generation at its Hinkley Point B nuclear plant in Somerset, nine months after it was taken offline.
In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, plans are reported for a £100 million factory in Scotland to create turbine towers for offshore wind farms. Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 “dark discharges” of untreated sewage from two water company treatment plants have been detected using artificial intelligence to map spills.
