Daily Debrief

System operator confirms plans for new grid connection timelines to prioritise renewable projects that can support clean power by 2030 goal

Wind and solar growth has reduced the influence of expensive gas and coal on Spain’s electricity prices by 75 per cent since 2019, new analysis finds

The Industrial Hydrogen Accelerator Programme provided funding for innovation projects that can demonstrate end-to-end industrial fuel switching to hydrogen.

Yard managers will open crates and assemble integrated wind turbines akin to Ikea flat-packs, SeaTwirl boss says

New research is making solar panels that have higher energy output and last longer that expected that help move the solar revolution forward.

Zero emission JCB digger deployed for the first time in the UK in support of the Lower Thames Crossing project

This report provides recommendations on updated approaches to consider technical reliability which could be applied when determining interconnector de-rating factors in the Capacity Market.

Windward Offshore has taken delivery of its first commissioning service operation vessel, Windward Athens.

Why might authoritarians fear the rise of solar energy? With Bill McKibben Last week Donald Trump let the UN general assembly know exactly what he thought about renewable energy sources. “I’ve been right about everything and I’m telling you that if you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail,” he said. Despite this political opposition, in the last 36 months there has been a global revolution in clean energy. The acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben explains to Lucy Hough that we have now passed a tipping point when it comes to solar energy, driven by falling prices, widespread innovation and countries’ desire for energy independence. Continue reading...

Volvo Group has officially launched the PU2000 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), marking a strategic shift from transportation toward integrated energy infrastructure solutions.

Repealing the 2008 Climate Change Act would not spare Britain costs — it would only make adaptation and mitigation more expensive

Electroflow, a California start up, has created a new low energy process that makes battery grade materials from brine.

Within the next 12-15 months CIP expects to announce three new investments through its first bioenergy fund.

Locals complain of a changed landscape, flooding, dust and disruption as rail project cuts through area of outstanding natural beauty UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development ‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty Margaret Bunce used to look from her cottage window over a swoop of fields of wheat and small copses. Now when she opens her curtains each morning, the rural valley between Great Missenden and Wendover is dominated by the concrete and earthworks of HS2. Orange-clad men and their yellow diggers and dumpers are building cuttings and viaducts to take the high-speed railway on its path through a swath of the Chilterns area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB), now known as a national landscape. Continue reading...

MSPs warned that the Bill may fall flat without changes to compulsory sale orders and procurement practices