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The UK green hydrogen sector is moving from policy development toward commercial execution, but the transition remains dependent on securing investment, reducing technology risk, and establishing reliable demand. A new partnership between Protium Green Solutions Ltd and ITM Power highlights the industry's current focus: combining project development expertise with electrolyzer manufacturing capabilities to advance industrial scale hydrogen production.

Grid giant submits latest investment proposals to Ofgem, as it seeks approval for multi-billion pound upgrade programme

National pledges fall short of Paris Agreement warming thresholds by more than five billion tonnes of CO2 per year by 2050, report warns, and carbon removals could struggle to fill the gap

Open letter from leading clean tech firms urges policymakers to ensure support for Sustainable Aviation Fuel helps deliver a domestic green fuel industry

Package includes £200m loan from the National Wealth Fund for a range of projects to support growing demand from offshore wind, nuclear power, technology, and defence sectors

European carbon capture industry steps up calls for clarity on carbon market and policy framework for EU-UK cross-border projects

If you want to see where AI technology is fundamentally changing infrastructure construction — not in pilot programs or conference panels, but in daily field operations — look at solar. Solar engineering, procurement, and construction firms (EPCs) and asset owners have adopted automated construction monitoring more quickly than any other segment of the construction economy.…

BESS performance guarantees are essential and ubiquitous, yet can be challenging to navigate, writes Intertek CEA senior energy storage engineer Yilin Huang.

Botched work by some of the country’s officially approved contractors dent confidence in key part of government’s energy transition plan

The Norwegian oil company says consideration should be given to whether offshore wind costs can be financed through consumer charges, as in the UK.

T1 Energy announced it has entered an agreement to acquire KORE Power, a battery energy storage system company, for $32 million of equity, cash and assumption of debt. The transaction is anticipated to close by the end of this month. The acquisition will provide T1 with an entry point to the energy storage market. T1…

Liam Critchley examines a selection of third-party technologies for preventing thermal runaway events in battery storage systems.

Aura Power has secured project finance for Preston Hill solar farm in Staffordshire, the UK.

Regulator finds inadequate monitoring by firm could have exposed vulnerable customers ‘to clear risk of harm’ Business live – latest update Ovo Energy has agreed to pay more than £10m after the energy regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, found a lack of monitoring of vulnerable customers with prepayment meters (PPMs) could have exposed them to a “clear risk of harm”. Ofgem found that Ovo did not adequately monitor its PPM customers, including those on the priority services register, leading to breaches of the watchdog’s rules designed to protect customers in vulnerable situations. ​​ Continue reading...

Installation of all the monopile foundations for Inch Cape offshore wind farm’s wind turbines is complete, marking a major milestone in the flagship Scottish project’s offshore construction.