The National Wealth Fund (NWF) has confirmed an initial £150 million financial guarantee to support The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC) to make long-term, unsecured loans to help social housing providers improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock. The guarantee…

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Research from the University of Sheffield suggest that combining solar panels with farming (so-called ‘agrivoltaics’) can meet UK solar energy targets without sacrificing agricultural land. The Great Britain-focussed study investigated the potential for installing ground-mounted PV in ways that would…

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A network outage last year that led to a widespread blackout in countries in south east Europe was initiated by two short circuit events in separate lines, both caused by vegetation too close to overhead lines, Entsoe-E said in a…

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Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has stepped forward the design process for a tidal power project in the Mersey by publishing a tender for front end engineering design (FEED) services. The Mersey Tidal Power Project is a tidal range project…

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Ofgem will hold tenders this year that will give companies the opportunity to own and operate electricity transmission links connecting more than 5GW of offshore wind farms to GB’s mainland energy network.  The OFTO (Offshore Transmission Owner) Tender Round 12…

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Cenos Offshore Windfarm Limited, a joint venture project between Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, has submitted an application for development consent to the Marine Directorate for a 1,350MW floating offshore wind project. The wind farm will provide power to the UK…

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Octopus Energy is to trial a ’zero bills’ retrofit offer for existing homes built since 2015. The company will offer to install a heat pump, battery and solar panels to bring them up to its ‘Zero Bills’ standard, where customers…

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Uniper is set to begin construction of two solar projects in the Midlands. The Tamworth farm in Alvecote, Tamworth, will have a capacity of 44.20MWp, while the Totmonslow farm in Draycott in the Moors, will have a capacity of 21.33MWp.…

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The Climate Change Committee has set out a carbon budget for the period 2038 to 2043. It says there has to be a rollout of electric vehicles , heat pumps and renewables that is “similar to those previously achieved for…

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A new biomethane plant used to supply heat for manufacturing medicines has gone into operation in Gonerby Moor, Lincolnshire. The plant operators AstraZeneca and Future Biogas say the Moor bioenergy plant has been installed without any subsidy. The plant will…

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