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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 and India have held talks in London about the two countries’ shared commitments
A resurgence in coal generation driven by rising gas prices could lead to the first year-on-year increase in power sector emissions in more than half a decade, a new report has warned.
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.
The industry is seeing new competition from non-traditional companies selling power through utility-independent subsidiaries. To
Research will focus on understanding the “increasingly complex interactions between electricity, gas, heat and transport systems, resulting in a suite of software tools that can provide a range of possible futures for the UK’s energy system”.
"Renewable electricity has a significant role to play in decarbonisation, but it is only part of the story"
The funding has been given to implement and test the next stage of the Quickturn project, a DSR initiative that will use flexible energy-consuming assets to help National Grid balance the fluctuating demands of the UK energy system.
EDF Energy and UK Power Reserve have completed the first exchange of a capacity market
MPs returned to Westminster last week for a new parliamentary year. But while Brexit may
Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has unveiled the design for what it claims will be the
The government has asked the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to explore how the UK’s climate change targets should be strengthened in order to meet the Paris climate change agreement.
Northern Powergrid has announced it will partner with Piclo to assess the potential for a “national flexibility procurement platform” in identifying flexible assets across the network.
Earmarking parking spaces for electric vehicle (EV) charging points would particularly benefit London, the chair of the government’s National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has said.
SSE has warned warm weather and persistently high gas prices in the financial year so far negatively impacted its adjusted operating profit by £190 million and has also warned the looming price cap will hit profits next year.
A group led by Octopus Energy has launched a trial which involves turning electric vehicles
The former vice-president of Tesla EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Ben Hill, has been appointed commercial and technical adviser of energy storage specialists, Solo Energy.