Wind

Weekend press round-up: Sale of petrol and diesel cars to be banned five years earlier

Reports on the fall-out of the sacking of Claire Perry O’Neill as COP26 chair and government plans to accelerate the EV rollout featured in this weekend’s papers. There is also a profile of the local grid project while Scottish Water’s CEO gives his view on how the industry should respond to the challenges of climate change.

Ofgem to launch net-zero innovation fund

SSE gives go-ahead to subsidy-free windfarm extension

Regional growth and utilities: Power to the regions

Tory opposition to onshore wind “thawing”

Voter concern about climate change is impacting on Conservative thinking, a leading Tory environmentalist has suggested. However, translating this into an overturning of the existing block on onshore wind farms will still be “really tricky”.

Let’s build a distributive energy system that works for everyone

We can’t afford to keep supporting slow and expensive nuclear technology when there are better, quicker and cheaper alternatives that will ultimately benefit consumers, says Good Energy's Kit Dixon

Utilities 2020: The year ahead for energy and water

Pipeline of ‘shovel-ready’ onshore wind and solar projects passes 6GW

Decision on three offshore wind projects delayed until June

Fresh delays have been announced on the decision dates for giant offshore windfarms being developed by Vattenfall and Orsted.

Weekend press round-up: Former minister says May’s price cap has failed

In this weekend’s press round-up: Conservative MP John Penrose says consumers are still being ripped off after Theresa May introduced the “wrong kind” of price cap; Octopus Energy acquires 70,000 customers from French energy firm Engie; and water companies defy Ofwat by paying out hundreds of millions of pounds in dividends.

Construction begins on colossal 3.6GW offshore windfarm

Renewable curtailment may reach 30GW by 2030

Capacity Market ‘should accept wind and solar bundles’

A consultant has argued that assembling portfolios of solar and windfarms, located in different parts of the country, gives those holding such Capacity Market contracts a better chance of providing power when it is needed.

Floating windfarms to achieve cost-parity by 2030

Floating wind farms will be able to compete on price with their fixed offshore counterparts by the end of the decade, a developer has predicted. It comes amid warnings that the scope for further expansion of fixed offshore wind farms is dwindling.

Onshore wind installations continued to fall in 2019