Developer Floventis Energy has awarded the ‘owner’s engineer’ contract for the Llŷr 1 and 2 wind farms in the Celtic Seas to Kent, in partnership with Vekta Group. The Llŷr projects are demonstrating the potential of two floating offshore wind…

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Construction has started at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) site in the West Midlands on electric vehicle charging infrastructure that will eventually have 180 charging points, which NEC says will make it one of the largest charging hubs in Europe.…

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Water and waste water company Pennon says it is in “advanced discussions with a range of counterparties” offering large scale solar development opportunities at sites situated across the UK, ranging in capacity up to 60MW. In a trading update the…

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Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc saw earnings increase by over 20% in 2022, to £48 million, thanks to rising prices and increased market volatility. It expects its operational capacity to reach 1GW in 2023 and around 1.5GW in 2024.…

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The Welsh Government has granted development consent for Wales’ first floating windfarm, Project Erebus, to be located 40km off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Blue Gem Wind, the joint venture between TotalEnergies and Simply Blue Group, says it is currently on…

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Invinity Energy Systems has received an order from Dawsongroup for another 0.22MWh VS3 flow battery. The two companies announced a partnership on 16 January to jointly develop and market a full package battery plus renewables solution that is designed to…

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RWE Renewables has sought damages of £9.42 million with regard to the cost of installing export cables for the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm. The claim comes after the European Commission decided in 2014 that a cartel had operated in…

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EDF Energy has announced it will extend the lives of two nuclear plants – Heysham 1, in Lancashire, and Hartlepool, in Teesside – by a further two years to March 2026, and possibly longer. Both plants mark 40 years of…

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EDF Energy and Total Gas and Power will be the contractors through which central government and wider public sector customers will be supplied with electricity and gas, respectively, in the next four years. EDF Energy won a framework agreement for…

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“Floating offshore wind represents a once-in-a-generation industrial opportunity for Wales – we cannot afford to let this pass us by,” said Welsh Affairs Committee Chair, Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP. He was launching a report by the Welsh Affairs Committee…

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