The government has announced £36m funding for Swansea University to develop building materials that generate electricity using light and heat from the sun. These materials could replace conventional walls, roofs and windows. Chancellor Philip Hammond, said: “This £36m new funding will…

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Electric vehicle charging provider Pod Point has won a three-year supplier agreement with Kier, one of Britain’s leading construction companies. The agreement will see Pod Point provide chargepoint installations at Kier offices across the UK, including six twin 7kW charge…

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Independent energy supplier Ovo has announced the first phase of investment into Munich-based digital energy provider 4hundred. Founded in 2017, 4hundred currently offers a 100% green electricity tariff to over 2,000 customers. The investment marks Ovo’s first move into the European…

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Suez UK has announced plans for a new energy-from-waste facility at Haverton Hill, near Billingham in Stockton-on-Tees, which will serve public sector and commercial customers in the North East and Scotland. The company already operates five energy-from-waste process lines in…

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EDF Energy and UK Power Reserve, part of the Sembcorp Group, have completed the first transfer of a Capacity Market obligation  using a trading platform built by Electron and underpinned by blockchain. Electron said that trades can take up to…

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The first utility-scale battery facility in Scotland has been commissioned.  The 20MW Broxburn Energy Storage installation was built and managed by RES and owned by The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG). Livingston-based NRS Group were the main civils contractor during the £1.5…

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The outcome of Ofgem’s first ‘regulatory sandbox’ suggests there could be more energy innovation within current regulatory arrangements – but innovators need help to navigate complex arrangements. In a report on the sandbox, which allows the regulator to grant temporary…

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Ofgem has written to network companies, suppliers and metering companies to warn them to take action to improve the quality of the data they hold on customers. The regulator said, “Poor quality data has repeatedly been identified as a risk…

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Northern Powergrid are working with Hyperdrive and Offgrid Energy are developing an electric response vehicle with an onboard energy storage system (ESS) to supply homes with power during power cuts, instead of the diesel-powered generators.   Dubbed the Silent Power Project, the…

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The CBI and the Aldersgate Group have both urged the government to go further to create the demand and infrastructure to support a zero emission road network. Commenting on the same day Theresa May announced £106m for R&D in green vehicles,…

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