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Great Yarmouth-based 3Sun Group has been awarded a contract worth more than £2.5 million to help
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The programme aims to demonstrate how solar power, batteries, smart heating technologies and electric vehicles can work together to support the islands’ energy system.
Bringing the UK up to speed in the EV revolution is the declared aim of The Road to Zero paper, issued by the Department for Transport (DfT). But will it deliver the EV dream?
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that support of renewable energy will be a key plank of Labour’s industrial strategy.
The survey, commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) from YouGov, shows that 52 per cent of MPs surveyed believe the level of strong opposition to onshore wind is more than 20 per cent.
Since 1990, the power sector has made great strides in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions
Octopus Investments has completed a £174 million refinancing of a biomass and landfill gas portfolio in what is thought to be the first major UK biomass deal in 2018.
Distributed energy resources are driving change in the utility sector worldwide as the ways in
Drax profits have fallen after the company suffered two unplanned outages at its power station in Yorkshire - one caused by a fire at the biomass rail unloading facility at the end of 2017.
Claire Perry, minister for clean growth and climate change, announced that the next allocation round for less established technologies will open by May 2019.
Former Conservative energy minister Charles Hendry has been appointed as independent chair of the transmission user group for SP Energy Networks.
Britain faces its biggest revolution in energy for over a century, with the shift to
The benefits of “flexible” charging will be even greater if fast chargers become commonplace - allowing six times more EVs to connect to the existing power grid, according to an Ofgem report.
SSE’s onshore wind growth added £3.9 billion to the UK and Irish economies over the past decade, the company has estimated.
Responding to a question at a seminar organised by Elexon, the chair of Energy UK said there was "not much" evidence of governmental response to the strains on the grid resulting from the increased decentralisation of generation.
The unusually warm weather has resulted in around 30 per cent less wind generation in June and July compared to the same time last year.
A consortium led by Energy SRS has secured a £727,000 grant from Innovate UK to build a working prototype of a gravitational battery.
The government has axed subsidies for new small-scale low-carbon electricity generation, sparking dismay from renewable energy bodies.
An automated demand-side response (DSR) system is to be trialled at a school in Somerset after the pilot scheme was awarded £1 million by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
