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Projections of energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions and electricity generation from 2024 to 2050.

Prysmian has secured a £2bn ($2.7bn) contract to provide cable for the Eastern Green Link 4 (EGL4) project, a subsea electricity connection.

Plans delayed by high costs and complexity involved, upsetting decarbonisation ambitions of factories in north-west

New report argues decarbonising farming would have a minimal impact on food prices while delivering enhanced resilience, but careful policy interventions are required to manage what is a 'profound' shift for farmers

Lancashire project capable of powering more than 65,000 homes for an hour, while preventing 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year

Probe under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation follows warnings that subsidised Chinese turbine makers could undercut European manufacturers

Britain’s battery storage pipeline continues to pivot toward contractual structures that prioritize operational control over outright asset ownership, as Drax Group enters a 10 year tolling agreement tied to Fidra Energy’s 250 MW 500 MWh West Burton C battery project.

Bloom among companies whose stock has surged as Big Tech turns to niche energy providers to power its sites

Known as ‘white gold’, lithium is among the most important mined elements on the planet – ideal for the rechargeable batteries used in tech products. Can Europe’s largest deposit bring prosperity to the local community? It looks more like the past than the future. A vast chasm scooped out of a scarred landscape, this is a Cornwall the summer holidaymakers don’t see: a former china clay pit near St Austell called Trelavour. I’m standing at the edge of the pit looking down with the man who says his plans for it will help the UK’s transition to renewable energy and bring back year-round jobs and prosperity to a part of the country that badly needs both. “And if I manage to make some money in the process, fantastic,” he says. “Though that is not what it’s about.” We’ll return to him shortly. But first to the past, when this story begins, about 275-280m years ago. “There was a continental collision at the time,” Frances Wall, professor of applied mineralogy at the Camborne School of Mines at the University of Exeter, explained to me before my visit. This collision caused the bottom of the Earth’s crust to melt, with the molten material rising higher in the crust and forming granite. “There are lots of different types of granite that intrude at different times, more than 10m years or so,” she says. “The rock is made of minerals and, if you’ve got the right composition in the original material and the right conditions, then within those minerals there are some called mica. Some of those micas contain lithium.” Continue reading...

Power firm Uniper has entered into a conditional supply contract with organic solid flow battery company CMBlu Energy for the delivery of at least 5GWh of its technology.

Business strategy to be questioned at annual meeting after renewable energy plans were ditched

EU has launched in-depth investigation into leading Chinese wind turbine supplier Goldwind

Energy storage is expected to play a significant role in enabling the global data centre build-out, although the commercial and financing models developers will use are evolving, Energy-Storage.news has learned.

Deal is final part of Danish offshore wind champion’s divestment programme