Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has decided to sell the company, saying on social media that the aim was to “clear the decks for some new frontiers” including a move into politics. He said on his ‘Carbonista’ podcast that he had…

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Nordic transmission networks have made preparations to support the network operators in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which are currently closely linked to Russian grids, in the event of an emergency. Last week chief executives from Energinet, Fingrid, Statnett and Svenska…

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Scottish Power Renewables is celebrating development consent for two major wind farms off the Suffolk coast. Decisions on East Anglia One North (800MW) and East Anglia Two (900MW) had been due on 6 January. In a blog on the consent…

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Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has been granted a non-convertible loan of £2.5 million from Scottish Enterprise, which will allow it to redeploy two more turbines at the MeyGen site in May 2022 and March 2023. This follows the successful deployment…

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System operator NGESO has announced contracts with companies that operate windfarms and batteries to maximise renewable generation on the system and reduce constraint costs across the key cable (B6) on the English/Scottish border. Currently, the main mechanism to manage the…

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Uniper and GE have begun a ‘hydrogen readiness assessment’ at Uniper’s Grain power station in Kent. GE’s assessment aims to find out how the 1,365MW CCGT could incorporate blends of hydrogen up to 40% by volume in its gas feedstock.…

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Shell’s Limejump tech platform has entered a commercial partnership with SSDC Opium Power to optimise and manage 90MW of battery storage across two sites – at Fareham in Hampshire and Fideoak Mill, near Taunton in Somerset. Fareham is the UK’s…

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An estimated 3.8GW of medium and small scale generation automatically disconnected from the grid in Spain and Portugal during an incident on 24 July last year when parts of the synchronised European grid split briefly, according to a new report…

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The Clean Growth Fund says it has closed its first fund with £101 million in capital commitments. The latest commitments, totalling £31 million, are from the Merseyside and South Yorkshire local authority pension funds, Queens’ College Cambridge and Aviva Investors,…

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The EU has triggered dispute procedures under World Trade Association (WTO) rules with the UK, saying that the ‘supply chain plans’ required by the UK from companies who bid for Contracts for Difference (CfDs) breach WTO rules. The EU has…

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