Daily Debrief

The final reports for UK project work on the third call of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies (ACT3) programme.

Rolls-Royce has begun construction on an EPC contract from Voltaria Helios Energy Storage to supply a large scale battery energy storage facility in Falkirk, Scotland.

Changes to inflation indexation for the Feed-in Tariffs (FIT) scheme.

Form Energy, Noon Energy and Ore Energy are all commercialising proprietary 100-hour battery technologies for LDES applications, but how do they compare on metrics like cost, energy density and round-trip efficiency? We look at what they have revealed, as well as what they haven't.

Government told to focus on transition to mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy More drilling in the North Sea would do nothing to improve the UK’s energy security, former military leaders have said, as a new analysis finds no fossil fuel importer is safe from chokepoints in the global supply chain. The government should focus on a rapid transition to a mix of wind, solar, tidal and nuclear energy to ensure the UK’s future security, the former military leaders told the Guardian, as well as a programme of energy efficiency and a “major renewal” of the electricity grid. Continue reading...

Will Taylor, Principal Consultant (Retrofit), Talan UK Britain has hundreds of thousands of unemployed young people and a clean energy sector desperate for workers. The government’s new youth employment drive […]

Cornwall Insight forecasts energy price cap is set to rise to £1,929, as fears grow that full blown oil and gas supply crisis could hit global economy

David Crane says data centres should bear the cost of developing infrastructure to serve their demand

Is $150 per megawatt hour power affordable or not? It may depend on the season

Consumers brace for ‘awful April’ and Iran war cost hikes, which have pushed UK’s gas market past three-year highs Households in Great Britain could see their energy bills increase by about £290 a year to almost £2,000 from this summer in a “tough pill to swallow” for consumers already braced for a volley of “awful April” cost increases from Wednesday. A typical gas and electricity bill is now forecast to reach £1,929 a year from July under the industry regulator Ofgem’s quarterly price cap, according to analysis by the energy consultancy Cornwall Insight. Continue reading...

Proceeds will be used to advance critical minerals projects in Cornwall, according to the UK firm

The Swedish developer of modular nuclear reactors is strengthening ties with its US partner Oklo to ”reduce risk and accelerate timelines,” Blykalla’s CEO comments.

In this news roundup, Unigrid, Inlyte Energy, CIUDEN, and Sunamp are advancing non-lithium energy storage technologies worldwide.

BESS safety issues become all too visible when it's already too late, but a considered approach through the full lifecycle can mitigate these and many other risks, writes Sunny Rai from Intertek.

New analysis from E3G warns 'chokepoints' in global oil and gas supplies make energy shocks an inherent feature of fossil fuel markets