Nick Molho, executive director, Aldersgate Group: “This is a crucial step forward and a landmark achievement for the Prime Minister and all the ministers and MPs who have supported an increase in the UK’s climate ambition. The message from business is clear: the…

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Business secretary Greg Clark has announced £23 million of funding in battery technologies, part of the total £274 million that will be awarded to consortia across the UK through the Faraday Battery Challenge, within the government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Winners include: Mining…

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Green energy tech supplier Octopus Energy for Business has launched two dedicated tariffs for ’vertical farmers’.  Vertical farming takes place in indoor facilities where crops are grown on a series of levels in a precisely-controlled environment. Sounds niche? Octopus’s new tariff comes as…

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The Scottish Government has approved plans to install a 50MW battery at ScottishPower’s Whitelee wind farm. The lithium ion battery will be the size of half a football pitch. Scottish Power claimed it would be the largest windfarm battery in the…

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Tomorrow (11 June) Rachel Reeves MP will present a Bill to Parliament which would commit the government to reducing UK carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Reeves, who is chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Select Committee,…

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The UK’s export finance activities are undermining its international climate and development targets, says a new report from the Environmental Audit Committee.Committee chair Mary Creagh said: “The government claims that the UK is a world leader on tackling climate change, but…

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From 31 December, suppliers with over 150,000 customers will have an obligation to offer an export tariff for customers who install solar, wind, anaerobic digestion or hydro  generation with a capacity up to 5MW. The obligation also includes micro CHP with…

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The UK is likely to have ‘associate’ status after Brexit in a new EU ‘DSO entity’ bringing together the bloc’s 2,400 distribution system operators. The new entity will be set up over the next two years and its first tasks…

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Grant applications are invited for a share of up to £30 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to develop local energy systems for UK communities. The aim is to create a pipeline of highly innovative, ambitious and investable local energy system designs that…

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Specialist divers and archaeologists have completed an operation to retrieve the wreckage of a 1943 Fairey Barracuda Torpedo bomber found by National Grid engineers last summer during a seabed survey ahead of the construction of the IFA 2 Interconnector. The three-seater…

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