The government has delayed until 1July a decision on planning consent for two major wind farms off the Norfolk coast, Norfolk Vanguard and Hornsea Three. This is the third time the decision on Hornsea has been delayed. The 1.8GW Norfolk…

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Lithium is replaced with sodium in a new prototype battery under development at Imperial College. Sodium is a more abundant metal than lithium and could raise fewer environmental concerns over extraction.The prototype also requires fewer heavy metals, which are also…

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EDF has applied for a development consent order (DCO) for a new reactor at Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast. National Infrastructure Planning now has 28 days to decide whether to accept the project for examination. The company said the…

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Two subsidy-free solar projects are to be built with debt financing in an agreement between NextEnergy Capital Group (NEC) and Santander. The bank, which already provides debt financing to the renewable energy sector, will provide a non-recourse debt financing structure…

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Early stage clean growth ventures can now secure investment from a new £40 million investment fund. The Clean Growth Fund (CGF) has a £20 million cornerstone investment through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Energy Innovation Programme, and a…

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Local authorities who want to invest in or underwrite renewable energy projects could see their plans outlawed after HM Treasury set out proposals to change the lending terms of  the Public Works Loan Board, which provides funding. HM Treasury said in…

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Greencoat Capital LLP is to acquire solar PV projects totalling 156MW from BlackRock BlackRock and Lightsource on behalf of some UK pension funds. The transaction will bring the total solar generating capacity of funds managed by Greencoat to almost 880MW. The…

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The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has opened the first Call for Proposals for grant funding for sustainable energy projects under its Flexible Fund. It expects to distribute £1 million of the total £3 million fund in this first call…

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Following a successful trial with 50 units, UK Power Networks has announced it will switch to installing ‘low loss’ transformers in its networks south and east England and London. It will start by installing the so-called amorphous steel core transformers in the…

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AMTE Power and Britishvolt have announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the aim of creating an onshore manufacturing supply chain for battery components. If successful the collaboration would enable scalable production of a diverse product portfolio of lithium ion batteries,…

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