Weekly Debrief

Anglesey site set to host the UK's first SMRs, delivering an estimated 3,000 new jobs to the region

Energy giant sets out 'fully funded' five year capital investment plan to bolster grid and build 'cleaner, more secure, and more affordable energy system'

RWE, Equinor and TotalEnergies among the offshore wind heavyweights set to clash in pivotal UK renewable energy auction

Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe. The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than has been rolled out over the last 40, according to the flagship annual report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Continue reading...

ORE Catapult to test main bearing for Mingyang 18.5MW machine in northeast England

BESS and flexible generation provider Statera Energy has secured £235 million (US$309 million) in debt financing for its 680MW/1,360MWh Carrington BESS project in Manchester, UK.

UK energy group to focus on potentially more lucrative activities such as power trading

Energy group will tap shareholders and increase debt to finance £33bn investment plan

Latest investment for facility at Hunterston takes total capital raised to over £500m

Nobody doubts chunky spending is necessary to improve the grid. But how much of that money will be funded through consumer bills? It is a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to upgrade the UK electricity network”, gushed Martin Pibworth, the chief executive of SSE, and you can understand his excitement. The great grid upgrade has put a rocket under his share price. SSE’s shares soared 17% on Wednesday as the group laid out plans to spend the phenomenal sum of £33bn – more than the company’s current stock market value – over the next five years. That’s terrific news for SSE shareholders, but the stock market’s enthusiasm will do nothing to quiet two big worries about the sprint to upgrade the electricity grid. Has the regulator Ofgem – under orders from the government to get the upgrade done by 2030 – had to throw gold in the path of SSE, Scottish Power and National Grid Group, the trio behind the overall £80bn network investment programme? And what does it all mean for electricity consumers – households and businesses – who will fund this upgrade through their bills? Continue reading...

Wylfa in Anglesey is to be chosen as site of small modular plants

Partnership offers drivers access to fully automated, intelligent EV charging systems that access the cheapest and cleanest electricity available

Government grants planning permission for landmark project at Cory's Riverside energy from waste facilities

Largest grid stability project to date to strengthen grid resilience without relying on traditional fossil fuel plants

Deputy First Minister says thousands of jobs could be created

Samsung E&A has unveiled its latest green hydrogen production system, the CompassH2-P, developed in partnership with Nel Hydrogen.

The company plans to spend two-thirds of that to upgrade wiring and increase high-voltage grid capacity to get power from the north to customers in the south.

Foundations for one of the world’s only large scale mooring line test rigs will soon be laid at ORE Catapult’s Floating Wind Innovation Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland.

A major study in Nature Energy, “Global greenhouse gas emissions mitigation potential of existing and planned hydrogen projects” by Terlouw et al, has done something rare in the hydrogen hype bubble that’s slowly deflating. It has gathered thousands of real hydrogen projects around the world, run full life-cycle assessments on ...

International energy watchdog sets out new scenario to reflect fading commitment to climate change

Reports heat pump grants are to be cut, and the way the proposed changes have been communicated, will dent confidence across the green economy

Former Labour MP and leading clean energy expert appointed as Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero

The FTSE 100 firm said around 80% of its 'fully-funded' investment strategy until 2030 will be invested in regulated UK electricity networks

Air Liquide has taken a critical step toward resolving one of the hydrogen sector’s most persistent bottlenecks: long-distance transport at scale.

ClearVUE debuts IRIS and previews Flexer inside ClearVUE.Zero Visitors to EMEX will see ClearVUE bring decision-grade intelligence to the point of use. On stand B20, the team will introduce two […]

Availability of electricity to keep models running is becoming the critical factor in technology’s development

European energy giant claims to have become the 'world's first energy company to complete a green transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy'

ANALYSIS | Commentators say oil giant has been heading for the exit for some time – what's more ominous is its inability to find a taker for 3GW of prime floating real estate

I wrote another technoeconomic assessment of why hydrogen will not be cheap, and the reaction from hydrogen advocates was familiar. They focused on small pieces of the analysis and treated each point as if it existed in isolation. That pattern confirmed something important. The debate is not about one technology ...

Don Dulchinos, Director at the OpenADR Alliance Grid-interactive buildings utilise smart technologies and connected systems to optimise energy use and interact with the electricity grid. This new generation of smart […]