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Orsted's Race Bank offshore wind farm has now officially opened. Here are five interesting things you may not know about it.
6 years ago
The Race Bank offshore wind farm near Grimsby has been officially opened. The installation off
The government has announced that onshore wind farms in the Scottish islands will be able to compete for CfD (contracts for difference) subsidies.
The Crown Estate has received applications for an additional 3GW of generating capacity by extending existing windfarms.
Over the early May bank holiday weekend, National Grid gave one of its newer acronyms
Claire Perry wants to bring the next round of global climate change talks in 2020
The government is not proposing to change the rules of the Contracts for Difference ahead of the next year’s round of the auction, a senior BEIS (business, energy and industrial strategy) civil servant has said.
The rules governing the support of renewable projects should be changed to provide a dedicated pot for wave and tidal projects, the government has been told.
7 years ago
Electricity consumers will be out of pocket by £1.5 billion due to a change in the rules for the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.
The UK is unlikely to need any new baseload gas generation to fill the gap left by the planned closure of coal plants, WWF and Sandbag have claimed in a new report.
TEN years after the passing of the Climate Change Act, Energy UK is launching a far-reaching project looking ahead to the next decade.
Ex-energy minister Sir Michael Fallon has urged his ex-Cabinet colleague Greg Clark to give offshore wind investors greater confidence by setting out a clear timetable for the next rounds of the contracts for difference (CfD) auctions.
"Momentum isn’t just building, it’s gathering serious pace"
SSE is to sell a 14.9 per cent stake in the Clyde onshore wind farm in Scotland to Greencoat UK Wind and GLIL Infrastructure for £202 million.
The government’s embargo on support for onshore wind power is ‘completely bonkers’, Keith Anderson has said.
The role of gas in the UK’s future power mix is set to rise to more than 50 per cent in under 10 years, according to BMI Research of ratings agency Fitch Group.
EDF Renewables has bought the controversial Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind project in Scotland from
The emergence of subsidy-free solar has helped the UK climb three places in a global
Ofgem has granted a licence to a subsidiary of Diamond Transmission Partners to own and
The final turbines have been installed at the Walney Extension offshore wind farm. The project