Major Scottish landowner to market £250m energy park on site of former coalmine
One of Scotland’s biggest landowners is planning to build a renewable energy park on the site of a former opencast coalmine.
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Bill Gates-Led fund raises another $1bn to invest in clean tech
Here’s more evidence the clean-tech boom is only getting bigger. Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the clean-tech venture capital fund led by Bill Gates, has raised $1 billion for a second round of investments after backing 45 startups with its first billion.
NEC announce 50MW of UK energy storage projects
NEC Energy Solutions (NEC ES), a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, announced today it has completed the commissioning of a total of 50 MW of energy storage projects in the UK with VLC Energy, a joint venture between Low Carbon, a renewable energy investment company, and VPI Immingham, owner of one of the largest combined heat and power plants in Europe and part of the Vitol Group.
‘Milestone for E.ON’ as power plant gets huge battery to stabilise energy supply
A battery the size of four shipping containers is being installed at a power plant to help keep electricity supplies stable, energy firm E.ON said.
Disused slate quarries to be used for power storage
A scheme which will use two disused slate quarries on the edge of Snowdonia as reservoirs for power storage has been given the go-ahead by the Government.
Apple issues $1.5billion of green bonds
Apple has issued $1.5 billion in bonds dedicated to financing clean energy projects across its global business operations, the largest green bond to be issued by a US corporation.
Gaelectric compressed air project to get £6.5million grant
The UK’s first compressed air energy storage project is to be awarded almost 6.5 million euro (£4.6m) by the European Union. It will hold air in specially engineered salt caverns under high pressure on Northern Ireland’s east coast before releasing it to drive turbines and create power for the grid. The money will pay for environmental impact assessments, planning and design, the Gaelectric firm behind the innovative scheme said. The system could generate up to 330 megawatts of electricity - enough to sustain thousands of homes - for up to six hours and the EU said it will contribute to energy security in the UK and Ireland.
Nimbys always aim at the wrong targets
My father was a senior manager and engineer in the nationalised electricity industry.