Two cities have opened new tenders for electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints. Liverpool City Council wants to engage with an EV charge point operator (The Provider) to supply, install, maintain and operate 300 EV chargers to be installed within existing lighting…
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Budget announcements: the industry responds
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Dan McGrail, Chief Executive, RenewableUK : “We welcome the Chancellor’s commitment to use the National Wealth Fund to transform ports around the UK into new industrial hubs for offshore wind manufacturing and assembly, building and supplying projects here as well…
Welsh developers see progress on stalled wind farm plans
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Welsh Ministers have given consent for EDFv Renewables UK’s Garn Fach wind farm near Newtown. RenewableUK Cymru said it was delighted that the delayed proposal – which will generate 85MW from the 17 turbines – had been approved. RenewableUK Cymru’s…
Norwegian centre records zero bird collisions with floating turbine
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Bird cameras monitoring the floating offshore wind turbine TetraSpar at METCentre off the coast of Norway have recorded no collisions over two years of monitoring. In October 2023, an adjustment was made to the equipment to better detect potential collisions.…
Apatura wins planning consent for fifth battery
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Apatura has won planning permission to build and operate a new 100MW battery at Tealing, near Dundee. Apatura has now received planning consent for five batteries in the last 12 months. It has a pipeline of 10GW of capacity in…
Guest blog: Andrew Marsh says we should open up engineering to secure the UK’s green future
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The closure of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics last month was an occasion to reflect on a sphere where British performance has improved in the past 30 years. The last few Olympics and Paralympics have seen Top Ten or even…
British Library to install rooftop solar heat and power array
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The British Library and CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) are claiming a new solar heat project will be the UK’s largest. The project will use Naked Energy’s Virtu product, which produce heat and electricity from the same collector. The company…
Solar film company wins Northern Powerhouse investment
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The £660 million Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), launched in March, is to invest £1.5 million in solar company Power Roll. The company produces a a lightweight and flexible ‘solar film’ that can be used, for example, on…
Market responds to Capacity Market notice
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An automated Capacity Market notice was briefly announced for the first time this winter . The notice, issued at 12.05 and cancelled at 14.05, would have taken effect from 16.30. Capacity Market notices are generated automatically when capacity known to…
National Grid wins funding to investigate rural and road electricity options, superconductors and offshore energy islands
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National Grid has secured £1.7 million from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund to further develop four innovation projects. National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) has been awarded £920,000 for projects to support the decarbonisation of rural communities and the construction industry. Rural…