Weekly Debrief

Investment rises in the sector in the hope that it can provide abundant carbon-free electricity

Investment rises in the sector in the hope that it can provide abundant carbon-free electricity

North and South Caledonia projects combining fixed bottom and floating wind turbines expected to start construction in 2030 subject to securing Contracts for Difference

A policy statement outlining the government’s response to the independent review on greenhouse gas removals.

Ocergy is enjoying the chance to show that its OCG-Wind technology is faster to build, as floating turbine readies for deployment in North Sea off coast of Aberdeen, Scotland

Agreement will deliver 400GWh of renewable electricity over two years - enough to power 74,000 UK homes a year

Lenders and investors are starting to fund households’ adoption of renewable technology

Lenders and investors are starting to fund households’ adoption of renewable technology

Fusion industry's annual report reveals sector has now secured over $14bn of investment since 2021, as race to deliver commercial projects accelerates

Frank Whittle Summit to kick off new mission to harness AI to accelerate development of zero emission aviation technologies

Framework document between the National Energy System Operator (NESO) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

Ocergy is enjoying the chance to show that its OCG-Wind technology is faster to build, as floating turbine readies for deployment in North Sea off coast of Aberdeen, Scotland

CeraPhi Energy Ltd has signed a strategic agreement with Star Energy Group plc that will enable the transition of legacy onshore oil and gas wells into sustainable geothermal energy centres across the UK.

Fidra Energy has reached financial close on its West Burton C battery energy storage project in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Trump or no Trump, the global offshore wind industry is taking advantage of new cost-cutting technologies and a new generation of offshore construction vessels that can handle today's supersized turbines.

With technology risk now largely removed from the equation, assessing how a battery storage project will perform across market opportunities is now the main object of financiers’ scrutiny, writes Ryan Alexander of enspired.

Direct solar hydrogen production has long promised a simpler pathway to renewable hydrogen by eliminating unnecessary energy conversion steps. While most commercial green hydrogen projects rely on photovoltaic electricity feeding standalone electrolyzers, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have demonstrated a laboratory scale integrated system that converts sunlight into hydrogen with a solar to hydrogen efficiency of up to 31.3%, placing it among the highest reported performances for direct photoelectrochemical hydrogen production.

Findings and analysis of activities between 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and the progress made against our objectives.

”We are talking to virtually all the major refining companies in Europe,” says CEO of Nordic Salt Cycle.

National Energy System Operator’s task made more difficult by climate change and increasing use of renewables

Report on expenditure and performance of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.

When it comes to storage, utilities and power producers are prioritising long-term execution over manufacturing scale, according to new integrator rankings

Latest HERO WEC Mission Status Update Examines How New Charge Controller Design Addresses Critical Challenge in Wave Energy Industry Since 2024, researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) have been improving the overall design of NLR’s hydraulic and electric reverse osmosis wave energy converter—or HERO WEC. Their work aims ...

The UK has been better than most at adopting electric cars. Electric cars just recently outsold “normal” petrol cars for the first time, and in the first quarter of 2026 plugin cars accounted for 35% of all UK car sales, with full electrics (BEVs) accounting for 22%. It’s one of ...

Entr and Unitech Power Systems have been awarded a contract by Nadara to support Scotland’s Bellrock offshore wind farm.

This publication sets out the purpose of the cleantech innovation challenges and how they will work.

CPH2 did not merely lose an experimental electrolyzer. Its destructive test failure exposed a mismatch between the product the company promoted and the business it was actually trying to operate. After more than a decade of development, a public listing and roughly £50 million in disclosed financing before its 2026 ...

Perpetual loss-making hydrogen fuel cell firm Ballard Power is paying £275 million for GeoPura, but only £82.5 million is cash. Most of the price is 50.8 million newly issued and dilutive Ballard shares, leaving GeoPura’s investors with about 14.4% of the combined company and subjecting much of their consideration to ...

Sarah Inskeep Talks Supply Chains for Energy Technologies—and One NLR Model That Brings Them Together When you plug in your phone or laptop, do you ever think about the wires that carry the electricity to the battery? Okay, now what about the powerlines, transformers, and substations that move the electricity ...

ESN Premium speaks with Ben Potter at CO2 Battery startup Energy Dome about the company’s latest project with Google and why the market is turning in favour of long-duration energy storage (LDES).