European solar and storage company Cero Generation and the UK’s Enso Energy have announced the financial close of a 49.5MW/99MWh battery. The battery will be located at the Larks Green solar PV project in South Gloucestershire – a 49.9MW solar…

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London Luton Airport (LLA) wants to reduce its carbon emissions and its reliance on the grid by building a solar farm within the airport boundary. It wants to generate at least 10GWh of electricity per year to cover a quarter…

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United Utilities (UU) is working on plans to develop 150MW of new installed renewables capacity by 2030. It said the programme – described as an ‘initial step’ – could be a combination of solar, wind and batteries, helping to deliver…

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Four projects have won funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Alternative Energy Markets innovation programme. They are: Chameleon Alternative Market for Energy Assessment In this £497k project Chameleon Technology, Evergreen Energy, Green Energy (UK) Ltd, Solo…

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Ofgem has rejected plans by National Grid Gas Transmission (NGGT) to replace ageing gas compressors at sites in the east of England, saying they will not be required when already-planned gas turbine units are installed. Ageing ‘Avon’ compressors, which have…

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DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, has officially opened a wind farm just 60 miles (100km) from the front line of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Phase I of the Tyligulska wind farm, in the Southern region of Mykolaiv, is already…

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Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust are seeking a Power Purchase Agreement to provide Torbay hospital with 3.5GWh of electricity per annum through an off-site PV array via ‘private wire’ with a direct connection to the hospital’s HV network .…

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Ovo Energy and Good Energy have each agreed customer refunds and compensation totalling around £2 million, after failings in applying correct tariffs. OVO Energy informed the regulator in November that it had applied incorrect tariffs to some customers. It has…

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The UK is becoming a less attractive destination for infrastructure investor funding, according to a regular survey published by the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA). The GIIA’s regular ‘Pulse’ survey said investment was becoming more difficult, with its investor members…

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Three energy suppliers have made compensation payments and additional redress totalling over £8 milllion after they missed or unduly delayed Guaranteed Standards of Performance compensation payments due to consumers worth £6,305,925. Over 100,000 customers were affected by these issues at…

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