BP has joined with Harbour Energy to develop Viking CCS, a project to transport carbon dioxide captured from industries in the Humber region to an offshore site and inject it into BP is acquiring a 40 per cent non-operated share…
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Octopus Renewables and RES invest in green hydrogen developer, name Kimberley-Clark as off taker
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Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust plc (ORIT) and Renewable Energy Systems have announced plans to invest up to £5 million into HYRO Energy Limited, to develop green hydrogen electrolysis projects in England, Scotland and Wales for industrial offtake and announced that…
Kew Gardens to install heat pump and PV to heat glasshouses
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Kew Gardens has begun a project to decarbonise the Jodrell laboratories and adjacent glasshouses at its London site. The Jodrell and Melon Yard buildings are currently served by three dual-fire oil/gas burners in a separate, below-ground plant room which provide…
Sunderland heat network delayed
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Sunderland City Council has extended by a month a tender for drilling of pilot boreholes for a planned heat network that will make use of heat from the flooded Wearmouth Colliery. The project, which has support from the Green Heat…
Ovo opens smart meter apprenticeship programme, encourages diverse applicants
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Energy supplier Ovo has reopened its smart meter apprenticeship scheme and it is encouraging applications from women and non-binary people in particular to help diversify the energy sector and close the green skills gap. In a survey among women interested…
Ofcom proposes referring cloud service market to Competition and Markets Authority
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At the halfway point of a probe into UK cloud services, telecoms regulator Ofcom is proposing to refer the market to the Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation and is consulting on whether to do so.. Ofcom said its…
Penso Power wins Hampshire battery approval on appeal
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Penso Power has secured planning approval for a 100MW connection capacity battery development at Bramley in Hampshire, 12 miles south of Reading. Permission was granted on appeal to the Planning Inspectorate after Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council’s refused it in…
Ethical Power acquires Swindon Borough Council’s renewables development business
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The development business of Public Power Solutions (PPS), Swindon Borough Council’s energy business, has been acquired by Ethical Power Development Ltd. The acquisition will see the development team and its current solar and storage project pipeline transferred to Ethical Power.…
It’s time to talk to your neighbours about heating
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If you are a domestic gas customer, are you interested in using hydrogen or a heat pump instead? Will your neighbours give you the choice? You may have noticed that the debate over how to replace carbon emissions has reached…
Greencoat UK Wind takes on Dalquhandy wind farm, plans further acquisitions
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Greencoat UK Wind has agreed to acquire Dalquhandy wind farm from BayWa r.e. for a total consideration of approximately £50 million. Dalquhandy is a 42MW wind farm located near Coalburn in South Lanarkshire, is adjacent to Douglas West wind farm,…