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The government has promised to tweak the rules for subsidising renewable projects following next year’s round of its auction programme for supporting low carbon power.
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The chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has called on utilities and regulators to back the recommendations it has made to government about the investment needed for infrastructure.
Over the years, UK electricity generation has been dependent upon various technologies. For much of
Ofgem has given the green light for an investment of almost £6 million in SP Energy Networks' (SPEN) flexibility project called "Project Fusion".
A “Tidal Lagoon Taskforce” has convened in Wales to enable local and national authorities, as well as community and business leaders, to consider the full suite of options for financing and delivering Swansea Bay tidal lagoon independent to Westminster.
The contribution of renewables to electricity generation hit a new record peak in the second quarter of this year as solar power picked up the slack resulting from the summer "wind drought", new official statistics show.
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.
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.
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.
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 has hit 20GW of wind generation capacity following last week’s opening of the world's biggest windfarm off the coast of Cumbria.
