Daily Debrief

£120m scheme promises to process 44,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a year to produce low-carbon hydrogen for industrial use

Standardisation crucial to driving down cost of renewable energy from offshore wind farms, says executive at Danish developer

Funding will enable company to to recycle capital into battery energy storage pipeline

The investor is shifting across offshore wind, onshore wind, solar and batteries as COO Martin Neubert explains how local presence, being technology agnostic and having auctions that actually work are now decisive to returns

Matrix Renewables has closed a £245 million non-recourse project financing to support the construction of a 500 MW/1000 MWh battery energy storage system project located in southern Scotland.

With CATL and HyperStrong's 60GWh sodium-ion battery deal announcement yesterday, it's an ideal time to look at the different sodium-ion cell chemistries and battery products available for BESS today.

2025 was a good year for heat pump water heaters (HPWHs). In our annual State of the Heat Pump Water Heater Market report, we talk about how residential and commercial manufacturers released more new and updated products last year than any other year in the product’s history. Five new residential ...

Clean Planet Technologies says its facility jointly tackles growing problem of hard-to-recycle waste plastics and aviation emissions

Under agreement, egg Power will supply renewable energy from a new solar farm in Suffolk that is expected to be operational from 2027

Scientists in China claim to have solved issues with iron flow batteries., which could lead to cheaper grid scale storage batteries.

Advancements in sodium-ion batteries have come from a new generation of cells from CATL, BYD, and others, bringing the possibility of lower cells costs at higher volume in the near future. CATL has stated it expects oceanic electric ships to be possible in the next three years. Could $20/kWh Naxtra ...

Worcestershire-based greenhouse aims to cut imports and boost resilience, while reducing inputs and delivering year-round, locally grown produce that can tackle climate and supply chain pressures

Energy company hails ‘exceptional’ contribution of oil trading operations as profits hit $3.2bn in the first quarter Business live – latest updates BP’s quarterly profits have more than doubled after a jump in oil and gas prices linked to the conflict in the Middle East. The energy company said on Tuesday that underlying profits for the first quarter were $3.2bn (£2.4bn), up by more than 130% from $1.38bn in the equivalent period a year ago. It is the company’s highest quarterly profit since 2023 and outstripped City forecasts of $2.67bn. Continue reading...

EDF and BW ESS have partnered on the first phase of the 350 MW/1243 MWh grid scale Hams Hall battery energy storage system in North Warwickshire.

When I wrote in 2021 that small modular reactors were mostly bad policy (peer reviewed version, CleanTechnica version), the argument was not that nuclear fission could not produce useful low-carbon electricity. It was already doing so every day. The United States had about 98 GW of operating nuclear capacity, and ...