Massive £800m solar farm applies for development consent
Photovolt Development Partners has submitted a development application for its major 840MW Botley West solar farm in Oxfordshire.
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Massive £800m solar farm applies for development consent
Photovolt Development Partners has submitted a development application for its major 840MW Botley West solar farm in Oxfordshire.
Energy transition akin to Industrial Revolution – Centrica speaks out on scale of challenge
The energy transition requires the sector to grapple with the Fifth Industrial Revolution.
National grid operator says clean power mission is ‘achievable’
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has today concluded that the UK government’s mission to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 is “achievable”.
Energy transition requires extra $1.75tn a year – report
Global investment in the energy transition must double to $3.5 trillion a year to keep global warming below catastrophic levels, according to a new report by analytics and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie.
HSE deals blow to HyBont hydrogen project
A green hydrogen project in Wales has been dealt a blow by the UK's health and safety watchdog which has refused to grant consent for hazardous substances over concern for the risk presented to the local population.
Rockefeller targets “equitable, just and pervasive” energy transition
The president of The Rockefeller Foundation, a multi-billion-dollar philanthropic investment house that began life investing the oil profits of John D. Rockefeller, has said the firm’s priority is an “equitable” energy transition.
BP completes Lightsource BP acquisition
BP (LON: BP) has completed its acquisition of utility-scale solar and battery storage developer Lightsource BP.
Tesco signs UK’s largest corporate solar power deal with Quinbrook
Investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has signed two long-term offtake agreements for solar power generation from its Cleve Hill Solar Park project.
How can energy help achieve ‘national security’?
Energy secretary Ed Miliband told industry at the EnergyUK conference in September that reaching net zero, which the government wants to achieve by 2030, will be a matter of “national security”.
King Charles’ alma mater aims to be one of UK’s greenest schools
Renowned independent boarding school Gordonstoun has announced carbon emissions reductions of nearly 10% for 2022-23, alongside plans to build its own solar farm.
Renewable Britain won’t happen without local engagement
‘Clean energy is the biggest economic opportunity of our time’, Ed Miliband declared at this month’s Labour Party Conference. As a freshly minted government, the party has firmly nailed its colours to the energy mast and they are unapologetically green. Just a week prior, the Energy Secretary issued a rallying cry to take on ‘the blockers, the delayers, the obstructionists’.
Octopus says it will invest £2bn in UK clean power projects by 2030
Octopus Energy has said it aims to invest £2 billion in UK clean energy projects between now and 2030.
UK gas plants kept offline by wind and solar
UK gas-fired power plants are running at their lowest hours of operation since 2017 owing to high levels of wind, solar and imports from Norway and France into the national grid.
Ed Miliband says Labour will take on clean energy ‘blockers’
Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has vowed to “take on the blockers, the delayers, the obstructionists” to build clean energy infrastructure.
Scotland allocates £1.5m for community energy generation projects
The Scottish government has allocated £1.5 million towards 19 community renewable energy generation projects across Scotland.
Talbot Green solar farm marks third planning approval for Windel this year
The Rhonda Cynon Taf local council has granted planning permission to Windel Energy and Recurrent Energy for their proposed 9.9MW solar farm, which will be connected to the Talbot Green substation at Ynysmaerdy, Wales.
UK solar developers secure record support in AR6 auction
Solar developers have secured record levels of government support in the UK’s annual renewables Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, Allocation Round 6 (AR6).
Labour policy ‘blitz’ on clean energy backed by public, polling suggests
The Government’s clean energy policy “blitz” is getting noticed by the public and appears popular, polling suggests.
New solar farms can benefit nature – here’s how
If you were told solar farms could take up to 0.3% of the total land area in the UK by 2035, would you take up a banner and march to parliament in protest? It’s hard to imagine anyone feeling troubled by such a perceptibly small figure.
£3.1m green hydrogen boost for whisky industry in Speyside
The Scottish Government funding will support the development of a green hydrogen hub in Moray.
UK-backed loan for Turkish solar farm offers boost to Britain’s supply chain
A UK-backed loan to build a major Turkish solar project will provide work for the UK’s renewable-energy sector supply chain.
Suffolk County Council to challenge aspects of Sunnica solar farm approval
Suffolk County Council, a Conservative-led local authority in Southeast England, has taken preliminary steps towards challenging the approval of the proposed Sunnica solar farm by the new UK government.
Is Scotland on the verge of a vanadium battery manufacturing boom?
Motherwell may not be the first place that comes to mind when speaking of the UK's renewable energy transition, but it could soon be at the forefront of a promising battery storage technology: vanadium flow batteries (VFBs)
Energy watchdog outlines steps to drive flexible power use
Britain’s energy watchdog has announced moves to help drive flexible electricity use as the UK increasingly switches to wind and solar power under aims to make savings of up to around £70 billion by 2050.
‘Super Nerd’ Miliband warns climate crisis is biggest threat to rural Britain
Climate change threatens the natural world more than ground-mounted solar panels do, Ed Miliband has claimed.