Greencoat UK Wind generated just four-fifths of its expected power in 2021, as low wind speeds affected its 1.4GW of installed capacity across 43 onshore and offshore operating wind farms in the UK and Northern Ireland. But although generation was…

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Five ‘long duration storage’ projects have been jointly awarded over £4 million of funding by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The funding is intended to accelerate commercialisation such storage projects through to actual demonstrations. BEIS says,…

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Crown Estate Scotland is will open a bidding window in June 2022 offering offshore leases for specific types of offshore wind projects. The round will have two ‘pots’. One is for innovative wind projects sized at less than 100MW, which…

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Grid Beyond has agreed a project financing facility from Triodos Energy Transition Europe Fund to invest £10 million in a pipeline of ‘behind the meter’ battery storage projects across the UK and Ireland. Triodos Energy Transition Europe Fund is the…

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IGas and Cornish Lithium have agreed heads of terms to develop geothermal heating projects, and are considering sites to jointly develop a pilot scheme. The companies say a technical and commercial evaluation of a number of potential project locations is…

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Energy storage company Eelpower has signed a three-year optimisation agreement for two 50MW batteries with Habitat Energy. The batteries are being built as part of Eelpower’s 2021 joint venture arrangement with Swiss infrastructure fund manager SUSI Partners. The projects, at…

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Whoop Energy and Xcel Power have ceased to trade and entered the supplier of last resort process. Whoop Energy supplies 262 gas and electricity customer accounts, of which 212 are non-domestic and 50 domestic. Xcel Power has 274 customer accounts,…

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Switching site Moneysupermarket saw no revenue from energy switching in the last quarter of 2021 because high wholesale energy prices meant there were no switchable energy tariffs available from October. The company said it was assuming that energy revenue would…

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Service station operator Moto said it was accelerating plans to open fast charging points at its sites this year, as it opened a Gridserve Electric Hub – Wales’ first high-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging hub – at Moto Swansea. The…

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Nova Innovation has been awarded an Option Agreement from Crown Estate Scotland to develop a 15MW tidal array at Yell Sound, between the islands of Yell and Bigga. The new project follows Nova’s earlier tidal array in neighbouring Bluemull Sound,…

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