Daily Debrief

Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war British households will be able to buy plug-in solar panels later this summer after the government changed the law so the UK’s biggest retailers could bring them to market for the first time. People across the country will be able to join the millions across Europe generating their own electricity using “balcony solar panels” from 27 August, according to legislation passed last week. Continue reading...

The United Kingdom has emerged as one of the first countries pursuing two fundamentally different pathways to commercialize small modular reactors.

Series of innovative projects secure funding to support development of infrastructure to enable zero emission flights from UK airports

BESS has huge potential to be deployed alongside AI data centres, but how are industry players positioning themselves to capture this opportunity?

The proposed €133.4 million subsidy to Repsol for the Atlas electrolyser project at its A Coruña refinery complex is structured around a production premium of €2.20 per kilogram of renewable hydrogen, more than four times the premium that winning projects secured in both the first and second European Hydrogen Bank auctions, where clearing prices ranged [...]

Agency forecasts surging electricity demand from AI data centres, air conditioning, and clean tech means emissions are likely to tick up again this year

Miatta Fahnbulleh’s visit to Aberdeen comes as companies hope to sway Burnham’s government on new drilling licences

ENGIE has reached full commercial operation for two new battery energy storage systems in Scotland.

PALFINGER has secured another contract with Smulders to deliver 64 PF 160-5m davit cranes for the East Anglia TWO offshore wind farm.

One task awaiting new energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is devising a plan to avoid a crisis by the end of the decade Welcome to the energy secretary job, Miatta Fahnbulleh. You have a politically tricky decision to make on whether to approve production at the Jackdaw gasfield and the Rosebank oilfield. But here’s another one that can’t wait much longer: what is the broader plan to ensure Britain avoids a gas supply crisis in 2030? By way of reminder, one of the more alarming reports published by the energy department under Ed Miliband was the one that warned of “an emerging risk” to gas supplies at the turn of the decade if an important piece of kit – an import terminal, say, or the critical 725-mile Langeled pipeline from Norway – were to be out of the action during a severe cold snap. Continue reading...

In April 2026, CATL signed a 60 GWh sodium-ion supply agreement with integrator HyperStrong, the largest sodium order ever placed, and declared the chemistry mainstream-ready. The 2 GWh agreement with Solarpro for deployment across Central and Eastern Europe, announced this week using CATL’s Tener Sodium platform, is smaller in absolute volume but more significant in [...]

New ACEA data shows the European car market has seen growing consumer interest in electric vehicles, as motorists respond to spike in oil prices

Brookfield Asset Management plans to buy solar and energy storage developer Aypa Power from Blackstone for approximately $7 billion. The investment will value Aypa at $3 billion. Aypa has 12 projects (2.1 GW) under development in the United States, according to Cleanview. The company is working on solar and BESS projects in eight states, including…

CEO of Swedish company Vaja aims for the company’s vertical solar trackers to become as common as the horizontal kind which is installed on 100GW of solar capacity a year in the south.

Brookfield has agreed to acquire battery storage developer-operator Aypa Power at an enterprise value of ~US$7 billion.