The Secretary of State has said the decision on whether to award development consent to the Hornsea 4 offshore wind farm has been delayed by four months. A new deadline to make a decision on this application which is 12…

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Vestas has announced that it is pursuing a chemical process that will enable wind turbine blades to be broken down into raw materials that can be used to make new blades. The process can even be used on blades that…

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Severn Trent Water has acquired Andigestion, a company with sites in Devon and Gloucester that collects food waste and uses it to produce biomethane, which is used to generate power or injected into the gas grid. The water company said…

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The government has set out six ‘priority outcomes’ for a new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero led by secretary of state Grant Shapps MP. A mission statement says the new department will “provide dedicated leadership focused on delivering…

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Forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG), has announced plans to install more than 360 150kW EV chargers at hubs throughout the UK in 2023 at an investment of £50 million. The investment is up from 2022 when it installed 271…

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Recharge, is an Australian lithium-ion battery company, has successfully bid to purchase Britishvolt’s planned £3.8 billlion lithium-ion factory in Northern England. Following the acquisition, Recharge has entered into an Memorandum of Understanding with Tees Valley Lithium (TVL) under which TVL…

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NGESO has now instructed two coal-fired generating units to ‘warm’ in case they are required to boost supplies on Tuesday. The system operator said the first unit warmed yesterday was at Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-sea plant and the second warmed early this…

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A change in connection charges aimed at speeding up connections to the electricity grid for new generating plant could see £439 million paid by customers in the two years from 1 April, instead of being charged back to the companies…

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Amberside Energy and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have announced a partnership to develop 2GW of solar and battery storage projects in the UK. Amberside said it expects the first projects to begin construction within two years. Amberside Energy will continue…

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Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has changed its outlook on National Grid Gas plc to stable from negative after National Grid plc concluded the sale of a 60% majority stake to a consortium of Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia…

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