Weekly Debrief

Bidding will no longer be restricted to floating or fixed wind, as hybrid foundations get the nod

Projects which received funding through the Longer Duration Energy Storage Demonstration Programme Stream 1 (Phases 1 and 2) and Stream 2 (Phases 1 and 2).

COP Frontier and UK engineering firm Wood Thilsted see huge potential in their new joint venture

British utility SSE and German power giant RWE biggest players going into UK’s AR8 offshore wind auction

Manufacturers say they want to invest in decarbonisation and electrification, but the UK's high energy costs are holding them back

X1 Wind and Technip Energies will test the performance of their disruptive floater technology using an 8.5MW turbine platform

Industry secures investment in wave of new marine and offshore wind projects, supporting almost 2,000 jobs

High Value Manufacturing Catapult says manufacturers face ‘narrowing window’ to meet growing demand for nuclear technologies

Kamal Shah has seen residential and commercial construction industries shift from analog procedures to more advanced, software-driven practices to improve job site operations. He’s also played an integral role in introducing these new efficiencies to the solar industry through his company SiteCapture. The software platform, available to the residential and commercial solar markets, helps manage…

Future Proof Shipping gave hydrogen cargo shipping something most hydrogen shipping announcements never provide: working vessels. H2 Barge 1 and H2 Barge 2 were not artist renderings, conference-stage concepts or another memorandum of understanding. They were inland cargo vessels converted to hydrogen fuel-cell operation and put into real freight service ...

Fallout between leading offshore wind farm developers escalates, casting a shadow over major planned North Sea sites

Oxford-founded company targets cold storage, industrial cooling and data centres for its AI cooling optimisation systems amid expected growing demand for more efficient cooling and air conditioning

Drax is the UK’s largest emitter but received record £999m in subsidies last year. London, 9 July 2026 — New analysis from think tank Ember finds that Drax biomass power station was the UK’s largest emitter for the eleventh year running, with record emissions of 14.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent ...

We're seeking views on draft social and environmental guidance for the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority.

Decision on an application for a solar farm on land surrounding the River Trent in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, under the Planning Act 2008.

Manufacturers say they want to invest in decarbonisation and electrification, but that the UK's high energy costs are holding them back

Scaling up floating wind projects to at least 500MW is a key priority for Michael Hannibal, both as sales director of Stiesdal Offshore, chairman of the GWEC and partner at CIP.

Sizewell B power plant given 20‑year lifetime extension to continue operating until 2055.

Detailed modelling assessing energy performance, cost, and overall suitability of reversible air‑to‑air heat pumps in a range of UK home archetypes and scenarios.

Investment in German firm through to be largest in a European fusion energy developer to date

Quaise Energy has announced the first close of its Series B financing, raising US$134 million to build world’s first superhot geothermal power plant.

JSM Group has been appointed by Statera Energy to deliver a high-voltage cable installation contract in support of a BESS in Greater Manchester, UK.

Watson Farley & Williams has advised green flexibility development gmbh on the acquisition of a portfolio of utility scale battery energy storage projects developed by Kajoni Energie GmbH.

Field and Pulse Clean Energy have each advanced UK battery storage projects this week, with a combined capacity of over 1.3GWh.

Switzerland-headquartered power firm Alpiq will acquire a 90% stake in UK-based BESS developer-operator Harmony Energy.

Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation finds Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre The Guardian has examined government plans to build Britain’s AI infrastructure for the future, finding some of these to be, in the words of one source, at best unclear and at worst “complete bunk”. The plans in question are for AI growth zones, which are supposed to be regions where the government supports companies to build massive AI datacentre complexes, of 500MW or greater. These could be bigger than any now operating in the UK. Continue reading...

Revelation raises concerns that US commercial pressure could weaken Britain’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions

Dogger Bank South owner points to a “rigorous, transparent examination” as rival Dogger Bank developers take the government’s consent to court.

The European Hydrogen Bank's latest auction is beginning to reveal the price at which renewable hydrogen projects may become commercially viable in Europe.

Adura says the UK government must approve North Sea production urgently to avoid domestic supply shortages.