LF Energy has added Sony Computer Science Laboratories to its members and launched Hyphae, a microgrid initiative to automate the peer-to-peer distribution of renewable energy. It is seeking hardware partners to collaborate to ensure the new system is entirely interoperable.…

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National Grid Gas plc has been fined £4M with £91,805 costs for failing to ensure its records relating to gas risers were up to date. National Grid Gas previously operated several local gas distribution networks (GDNs) supplying gas to UK…

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Cornish Metals expects to start drilling at its United Downs site in Cornwall  in late March or early April after raising £8.2M in new shares and private investment and listing on the AIM market . The company wants to extract copper…

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Two houses being built at Northern Gas Networks’ site in Low Thornley, Gateshead will be the UK’s first with household appliances fuelled entirely with hydrogen. The semi-detached homes, funded with the help of the Hy4Heat programme,  will open in April 2021.…

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The government is to invest £10 million in a new UK Centre for Greening Finance, with physical hubs in Leeds and London. These research hubs will provide data and analytics to financial institutions and services such as banks, lenders, investors…

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BEUS wants to identify carbon capture and storage (CCUS) clusters by August that may be eligible for government support for deployment by the mid 2020s and allow for a final investment decision in the first half of 2022. It is…

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A ‘Sandbox’ proposal to trial a new metering solution in. a live’ market environment is under consultation until 26 February. Emergent Energy is a renewable energy supplier that specialises in microgrids (residential private wire networks) in the social housing sector.…

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Renewable infrastructure fund Greencoat UK Wind is seeking to raise up to £198M by issuing shares institutional investors at 131p per share. The fund  invests in operating UK wind farms, with exposure to offshore limited to 40% of Gross Asset Value (currently 30%).…

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Rainbow Rare Earths has reported positive results in sampling for neodymium and praseodymium at its Phalaborwa site in South Africa.  The materials are among so-called ‘rare earths’ that are vital components of the  permanent magnets used in wind turbines and other generatorsand there are…

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The government has set the reserve price for carbon emissions at £22 in the first auction in the new UK Emissions Trading Scheme. Auctioning will start no later than Q2 2021. The government said that reserve price would be fixed until “it is…

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