Onshore turbines pass 15GW milestone, still narrowly outspin marine sisters
Britain’s wind power developers are celebrating reaching 15 gigawatts (GW) of onshore wind capacity now fully operational, enough to power 9.9 million homes all year round. Land-borne turbines now...
View ArticleCoutinho: New unabated gas ‘needed beyond 2030’; REMA needs local pricing
Energy secretary Clare Coutinho today pledged to build new CCGT power stations as replacements for ageing gas generators. The new plant, Coutinho accepts, is likely to remain without carbon extraction...
View ArticleD-ESNZ approves NGrid’s Yorkshire GREEN upgrade
Energy secretary Claire Coutinho has granted a development consent order (DCO) for the Yorkshire GREEN Energy Enablement project, clearing the way for National Grid to start reinforcing the...
View ArticleOctopus buys half of German green developer
Octopus Energy’s generation arm is investing in renewables developer Lintas Green Energy in a move to turbocharge Germany’s energy revolution, bringing bills down for customers while driving Net Zero....
View ArticleLow heat pump uptake slows progress on hydrogen & decarbing homes, watchdog...
Government uncertainty over heat pumps and over hydrogen’s role in home heating is slowing adoption of the devices and infrastructure planning, a new National Audit Office (NAO) report has found. The...
View Article‘Green certainty, not flip flops’, SMEs beg politicians
Small businesses are crying out for the clarity & consistency they need in green policies if they are to grow, a new report has found. Energy use tops their worries. Recent back-tracking by Rishi...
View ArticleOfgem greenlights first faster Grid upgrade with up to £2 billion
The first project to proceed under a new fast track approval process designed to expand Britain’s grid at speed, has received up to £2 billion in funding. It will deliver a subsea power mega-pipe,...
View ArticleOfgem consults on replacing price cap
Britain’s energy regulator today opened up its long-promised consultation on the future of the retail price cap for domestic billpayers. Ofgem defends the price cap as working well since its...
View ArticleOfgem names best and worst home energy suppliers for first time
Energy regulator Ofgem has published the latest results of its annual Energy Consumer Satisfaction survey. For the first time it names the best and worst suppliers, as perceived by home consumers. On...
View ArticleOfgem sets out 5 year masterplan to green & decarb UK power
Power markets regulator Ofgem today publishes its latest five-year strategy for Britain’s electricity system. ‘Protect, Build, Change, Deliver’ are its watchwords for speeding delivery of clean,...
View ArticleGovernment offers c.£400m. British Industry Supercharger to level field for...
Around 370 businesses in energy intensive industries employing an estimated 400,000 workers are set to benefit from lower costs as a result of the rollout this week of the British Industry...
View ArticleScrap blanket subsidies for pensioners to fund more progressive Warm Homes...
The government should expand the Warm Homes Discount scheme to reach more households, and phase out the poorly-targeted Winter Fuel Payments, to help poorer households manage high energy bills this...
View ArticleConsumer champion presses minister to help 500k heat networked homes
As Ofgem’s latest price cap sends average household energy bills to their lowest level in two years, a consumer body is sounding the alarm for more than half a million households who will miss out on...
View ArticleMapping for wind & solar: England “can produce 13x more clean energy than...
Easing barriers to new onshore wind and solar power could see England alone producing 13 times more low carbon electricity than at present on under-exploited land, new research commissioned by Friends...
View ArticleEnergy minister Graham Stuart quits, opts for backbenches
Rishi Sunak has been struck by another ministerial resignation as energy minister Graham Stuart, pictured left, has announced he is standing down from his cabinet-ranking D-ESNZ ministerial role as...
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