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Wind power capacity must grow exponentially if the UK is to hit its 2020 renewables target, according to National Grid models.
Dedicated biomass power plants will no longer be eligible for subsidies, under the draft Electricity Market Reform delivery plan set out by government on Wednesday.
The Scottish Government has rejected plans for the Druim Ba windfarm citing "significant adverse landscape and visual impacts".
Energy secretary Ed Davey has insisted that the coalition government is looking at not just batteries but advances in "hydrogen technology" so it can "store wind power when it's not needed on the grid".
The European offshore wind sector has grown during the first half of 2013, but is suffering a financial slowdown, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
We need more pumped storage, but the future lies in multiple smaller facilities, says Dave Holmes
Prime minister David Cameron officially launched the world's largest offshore windfarm today.
Ask the chief executive of any of the big six energy suppliers what keeps them awake at night, and expect to hear the word "trust". Energy companies are routinely vilified in the national media and in Whitehall, so it is no surprise that survey after survey shows they continue to plummet in the public's estimation. In just the past fortnight, we published exclusive research carried out for us by Alva which showed the reputation of the energy industry lags behind banking, mining and insurance.
Communities will receive Feed-in Tariff (FiT) payments for "clean green energy" generated by "larger community" energy projects under new plans set out by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
A measure intended to minimise a hiatus in large-scale renewables investment has been set back by five to six months, recently published government documents reveal.
Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has revealed a higher than expected £155 per megawatt hour "strike price" for offshore wind farms dropping to £135/MWh across 2014 to 2015.
