Weekly Debrief

Great British Energy, the UK's National Wealth Fund and the Scottish National Investment Bank each commit up to £50m towards development of 100MW Pentland floating wind farm

UK tech firm aims to convert legacy industrial sites into AI data centres powered entirely using clean energy

Low noise alternative uses jetting method for installation of monopiles for offshore wind turbines that reduces underwater noise to level just above natural background in North Sea, developer claims

The £50 million investment in the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm was announced on Wednesday, and sees the SNIB join GB Energy and the National Wealth Fund in investing

Information about Advanced Nuclear Technologies, previously known as Small Modular Reactors.

Regulator backs three National Gas projects to accelerate the delivery of a core hydrogen network for the UK

Company plans to convert biomass plant that has been dormant since 2019 into an operational plan capable of producing up to 30MW of low carbon electricity from waste

EXCLUSIVE: Mingyang vice president discusses plan for Scottish factory, what the Chinese supplier can offer that European rivals struggle to, and how it can boost floating sector to benefit of all

The promise of a coal power revival is already being undermined by new energy storage technologies for wind and solar, including sodium-ion batteries.

EDF has partnered with Hypervolt to launch Ultra Mode, a new smart charging feature that rewards electric vehicle (EV) drivers for supporting the grid. Enabled by EDF’s status as a […]

Danish infrastructure financier is also co-developer of the Ossian project, firmly on course to become the first gigascale floating wind farm project to obtain full planning consent

Cadeler has been investing in advanced wind turbine vessels to boost the scale and efficiency of installation operations for turbines and foundations.

Ocean Winds wins the third Celtic Sea Round 5 floating wind lease in boost to burgeoning sector

Updates on the proposed commercial frameworks for transport and storage, power, and industrial carbon capture business models.

Decision by the Secretary of State on an application for a non-material change to an offshore wind farm project.

Planning consent has been granted for the Lewis Hub, a major clean energy project that will connect the Western Isles, Scotland, to the GB Transmission network.

BayWa r.e. has received concept certification from DNV for its BayFloat floating wind semi-submersible concrete substructure and mooring system design.

Plug Power has been selected for an equipment supply and long-term service agreement totalling 55 MW for three green hydrogen projects being developed by Carlton Power in the UK.

October’s auto market saw plugin EVs at 37.6% share in the UK, up from 30.2% year on year. BEVs grew volume 24% YoY, and PHEVs grew 27%. Overall auto volume was 144,948, almost flat YoY. The UK’s leading BEV brand was Ford, with a 9% share of the BEV market. ...

China dominates the LFP battery technology which has been critical to making mass-market EVs possible. Read how the EU can, and why it must, catch up. For years, if not decades, the main barrier slowing down the mass-market uptake of electric cars (EVs) around the world has been their price ...

EnergyPathways’ newly announced non-binding cooperation agreement with Siemens Energy positions compressed air energy storage (CAES) as a potential tool for absorbing surplus renewable electricity and delivering multi-day, low-carbon power, a capability conventional battery systems cannot economically provide at scale.

Recent breakthroughs in developing methane pyrolysis are a sign the fuel will have a role in decarbonising industry

Major corporates and business groups join more than 80 governments in pushing for COP30 deal that commits to developing a roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels worldwide

German manufacturer says Gefion supercomputer will allow it to analyse wind farms in ‘minutes instead of days’ among other benefits

Make UK’s call for the government to recognise that the energy crisis for industry is happening now is spot-on In the long list of budget submissions from the business world, here’s one the chancellor is probably disinclined to smile upon. Make UK, the body representing manufacturers, would like the government to expand its energy support scheme – the one unveiled in June as part of the shiny new industrial strategy – from 7,000 firms to 115,000 businesses. And it would like the promised savings in electricity bills to be backdated to April this year; as scheduled, the so-called British industrial competitiveness scheme, or BICS, is due to arrive only in April 2027. Continue reading...

Sense, a grid technologies company, is debuting services enabling utilities to detect distributed energy resources (DERs) and other energy loads in the home. These services are capable of making transformer and feeder-level mapping of the grid and its DERs. Sense Load Visibility Solution uses the latest AMI meters to detect distributed resources, like rooftop solar,…

New tariff aims to slash charging costs for residents in flats and shared living spaces

Government expands heat pump scheme to include heat batteries and 'air-to-air devices' that can cool homes in summer, despite speculation over budget cuts

Oil giant says gas and batteries linkup with Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky lets it make money right along the value chain – whether or not the wind is blowing

Wind turbine OEM is sharply reducing the platforms, markets and factory base for its land-based business but sees continuing promise at sea