Weekly Debrief

Siemens Gamesa produces rotor blades for first-ever large-scale installation of recyclable blades at sea off UK

In a UK first, Ørsted is using heavy-lifting cargo drones to carry out the largest programme of offshore equipment deliveries outside the military for its offshore wind farms, including Hornsea 1 & 2.

Statera Energy hails energisation of landmark 300MW / 600MWh battery energy storage system in Thurrock

Robosys Automation is leading Project ORACLES, a venture aimed at transforming the environmental consenting process for offshore wind farms using robotics.

BayWa r.e. has secured Section 36 planning consent for its largest battery energy project in Europe, located in Scotland.

Climate tech venture capital firm has raised almost a third of £150m target to accelerate net zero innovation

UK national standards body to govern data standards that are expected to play a key role in digitalising and decarbonising the energy industry

Deployment on 50 North Sea turbines hailed as first ever large-scale installation of recyclable blades in UK waters

Statera Energy has begun operating the biggest BESS project in the UK, connected to a National Grid substation that formerly supported two coal power plants.

Now is the moment for long-duration energy storage to become a key pillar of the energy transition, writes LDES Council CEO Julia Souder.

Record amount of capacity granted planning permission in second quarter

Advanced protocol implementation enables CPOs to deploy scalable, future-ready charging solutions across Europe. AMPECO, a global leader in EV charging management software, and Autel Europe, a leading provider of EV charging solutions, announce the successful completion of comprehensive OCPP 2.0.1 testing between Autel’s MaxiCharger DH480 and AMPECO’s EV charging management ...

The UK national standards body BSI has been appointed to take on the role of governing essential standards to digitalise the country’s energy sector.

Move to extend Plug-In Van Grant Scheme by another year aimed at providing greater certainty for fleet operators to make the switch to electric

Good weather and rapidly proliferating farms mean solar generation is at record levels

Vattenfall says it will chose between GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactors

A Great Western Railway (GWR) battery-electric train in the UK has set a new world distance record of 200 miles (322km), the furthest distance travelled by a train of its kind on a single charge. The previous record of 139 miles (224km) was achieved by Stadler Deutschland in Berlin in 2021. The trip, which was

Heating our homes while cooling our carbon footprint has taken a big step forward thanks to an innovation from UK Power Networks. Decarbonising heat is one of the biggest opportunities […]

Greensphere Capital takes equity investment in Source Certain to help scale up the firm's supply chain traceability technology and expand its market presence in the UK and EU

A £30m investment has built charging banks at 50 of the car dealership's branches across the UK

Norwegian oil giant’s investment in Orsted forms 'major pillar' of its green transition plan – but will it stay the course with troubled offshore wind developer?

UK's largest independent cheese maker to deploy AI-based birdsong detection technology to monitor biodiversity at 10 supplier farms

Network operator teams up with consultancy Arup and heating specialist Bring Energy on new HeatScape project to map existing heat networks, forecast future growth, and assess electricity needs

Ithaca Energy chair says levy not justified with crude prices almost half their 2022 peak

Short positions in the Danish group build up as offshore wind developer undertakes $9bn cash call

British metering provider IMServ and Valda Energy have launched the first standalone AMR smart gas meter for small businesses.

Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green belt land by the M25 in Buckinghamshire. Campaigners bringing the action are complaining that no environmental impact assessment was made for the 90MW datacentre, which was approved as part of the Labour government’s push to turn the UK into an AI powerhouse by trebling computing capacity to meet rising demand amid what it terms “a global race” as AI usage takes off. Continue reading...

WattBuy, a software company providing energy insights and electrification solutions for residential customers, announced that it has been acquired by Schneider Electric. Along with the current management team, CEO and co-founder Naman Trivedi will continue to lead WattBuy’s operations. WattBuy will partner with Schneider Electric subsidiaries EnergySage and Qmerit to deliver an end-to-end experience for…

Administrator was appointed after parent company State Oil given new information about £783m loan The Prax Lindsey oil refinery collapsed after “material irregularities” were discovered in a complex £783m loan facility that funded the wider group, it has emerged. The refinery on the Humber estuary in northern England – one of just five left in the UK, – was suddenly plunged into administration in late June, prompting calls from furious government ministers for an investigation into Winston Soosaipillai, Prax Group’s oil tycoon owner. Continue reading...

180,000 customers with Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) meters are being urged to accept the offer of a meter replacement from their energy supplier as the managed phaseout of the ageing technology continues. Since January, over a quarter of a million RTS meters have been replaced in homes and businesses across Great Britain. There are 215,000… Read more