Forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG), has announced plans to install more than 360 150kW EV chargers at hubs throughout the UK in 2023 at an investment of £50 million. The investment is up from 2022 when it installed 271…

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Recharge, is an Australian lithium-ion battery company, has successfully bid to purchase Britishvolt’s planned £3.8 billlion lithium-ion factory in Northern England. Following the acquisition, Recharge has entered into an Memorandum of Understanding with Tees Valley Lithium (TVL) under which TVL…

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NGESO has now instructed two coal-fired generating units to ‘warm’ in case they are required to boost supplies on Tuesday. The system operator said the first unit warmed yesterday was at Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-sea plant and the second warmed early this…

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A change in connection charges aimed at speeding up connections to the electricity grid for new generating plant could see £439 million paid by customers in the two years from 1 April, instead of being charged back to the companies…

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Amberside Energy and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have announced a partnership to develop 2GW of solar and battery storage projects in the UK. Amberside said it expects the first projects to begin construction within two years. Amberside Energy will continue…

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Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has changed its outlook on National Grid Gas plc to stable from negative after National Grid plc concluded the sale of a 60% majority stake to a consortium of Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia…

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Iberdrola will build four so-called ‘agrovoltaic’ PV projects in France totalling 12MW, after a renewable energy innovation tender launched by the French Ministry for the Energy Transition. The 20-year contracts for difference (CfDs) awarded were priced above the market value…

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MAG Airport Limited is looking for a long term energy supplier for its three airports (Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands), which currently have a consumption of over 210GWh from the grid. MAG wants to secure long-term competitive price and demand…

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Veolia and Scottish Water have increased the renewable energy generated at Scotland’s largest wastewater treatment works, Seafield in Leith, Edinburgh. Since June 2022 Seafield has been a net exporter of renewable electricity producing over 108% of the electricity it requires…

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EirGrid and the transmission system operator (TSO) in Northern Ireland (SONI) are set to demerge, on instruction from Northern Ireland’s Utility Regular. The Utility Regulator in Northern Ireland issued a decision in August 2022 regarding SONI governance and it became…

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