Statera Energy says it has brought debt financing for its Thurrock project, which comprises a 300MW/600MWh battery and a 450MW gas-fired power station (Thurrock Power) to £395 million. Statera secured £144 million of debt financing in November 2023, which has…

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Transport for London (TfL) has launched a Solar Private Wire project, to directly receive zero-carbon electricity from decentralised sources for use in its operations. The project, on behalf of London Underground Limited (LUL), is primarily focused on private wire connections…

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Wirral Council has announced plans to secure a private sector partner to develop a heat network in Birkenhead. The project comprises development of a new heat network serving a mix of buildings including new build residential, existing residential, new build…

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Two cities have opened new tenders for electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints. Liverpool City Council wants to engage with an EV charge point operator (The Provider) to supply, install, maintain and operate 300 EV chargers to be installed within existing lighting…

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Dan McGrail, Chief Executive, RenewableUK : “We welcome the Chancellor’s commitment to use the National Wealth Fund to transform ports around the UK into new industrial hubs for offshore wind manufacturing and assembly, building and supplying projects here as well…

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Welsh Ministers have given consent for EDFv Renewables UK’s Garn Fach wind farm near Newtown. RenewableUK Cymru said it was delighted that the delayed proposal – which will generate 85MW from the 17 turbines – had been approved. RenewableUK Cymru’s…

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Bird cameras monitoring the floating offshore wind turbine TetraSpar at METCentre off the coast of Norway have recorded no collisions over two years of monitoring. In October 2023, an adjustment was made to the equipment to better detect potential collisions.…

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Apatura has won planning permission to build and operate a new 100MW battery at Tealing, near Dundee. Apatura has now received planning consent for five batteries in the last 12 months. It has a pipeline of 10GW of capacity in…

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The British Library and CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) are claiming a new solar heat project will be the UK’s largest. The project will use Naked Energy’s Virtu product, which produce heat and electricity from the same collector. The company…

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The £660 million Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), launched in March, is to invest £1.5 million in solar company Power Roll. The company produces a a lightweight and flexible ‘solar film’ that can be used, for example, on…

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