The last weekend in June, overnight on Sunday 28th, saw another record low power demand on the national transmission system. In early estimates the System Operator was expecting 15.3GW on the national transmission system, and even four hours ahead it…

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Vattenfall has announced that it is investigating plans for two new wind farms with battery storage in South West Scotland. The company has studied previously identified projects and identified two sites: Whiteneuk is around 5km south of Moniaive and it…

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Rebecca Williams, head of policy and regulation, RenewableUK:  “To meet net zero and recover from Covid, we need to put a rocket under our economy and that rocket has to run on clean energy. The CCC is clear about the huge opportunities right across the renewable energy…

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Battery owner Zenobe Energy has secured up to £20 million of funding to support a rollout of electric bus and charging infrastructure provided under service contracts to bus operators. The funding, from NatWest, is secured against the cashflows generated by Zenobe’s…

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Work has begun on refurbishing the Moyle interconnector, a 500MW HVDC link owned and operated by Mutual Energy which links Northern Ireland and Scotland. Siemens Gas and Power won the project to refurbish the interconnector, whose control and protection system…

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Innogy has placed a conditional order for 100 14MW wind turbines for its Sofia offshore wind farm with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. Final investment decision on the wind farm – covering an area the size of the Isle of Man…

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Engenie has signed a partnership with real estate specialists, Brookhouse Group, to install rapid EV charging at ten retail sites across the UK, opening up rapid destination charging to customers visiting major retail brands such as Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Argos, Next,…

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Ten offshore energy organisations have joined the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence. Offshore wind developers EDF Renewables, EDP Renewables, Equinor, ESB, Mainstream Renewable Power, ScottishPower Renewables, SSE Renewables, and Offshore Wind Power Ltd (OWPL),…

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Carlton Power has entered into a joint venture agreement with Highview Power Storage Inc to build and operate a 50MW, 250MWh long-duration ‘liquid air’ (cryogenic) energy storage system. The two companies have created a joint-venture company, named Carlton Highview Storage,…

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How can the UK capture economic growth opportunities from the shift to net zero? Alok Sharma, secretary of state at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy addressed that question at a round table last week and has invited…

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