Foresight Group’s 6MW Gedling Solar Farm in Nottinghamshire has produced honey from hives situated on the farm, managed and collected by The Friends of Gedling Country Park. With a grant provided by Foresight, six beehives were purchased and occupied with…

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Ofgem has granted a claim for compensation for cable failure in the subsea connection to the Walney 2 offshore wind farm. The regulator decided that the failure at Walney 2 from 14 December 2015  to 19 March 2016 was an ‘exceptional event’…

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New EY research finds that 2016 saw a significant fall in asset impairments reported by European utilities. But according to the report, at €23b it was larger than might have been anticipated given a recovery in energy commodity prices, and…

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Good Energy, the 100% renewable electricity and green gas provider, has signed a pilot agreement with Europe’s largest smart charging solutions provider for electric vehicles, NewMotion. The pilot agreement will see NewMotion install smart electric vehicle charging points at Good…

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British Solar Renewables has won a contract to operate and manage the UK’s first community-owned renewable energy project, Westmill. The co-operative that runs the solar farm chose BSR to manage the 5MW project following a competitive tender, and the contract…

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The Environmental Audit Committee has launched a Green Finance inquiry to scrutinise the government’s plan to develop “world leading green finance capabilities”. The government’s Clean Growth Strategy sets out how more than £2.5bn will be invested by the government to…

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The first fully commissioned turbine at offshore wind farm Rampion has started generating electricity. The installation of the turbines began in March 2017 and was completed ahead of schedule in September. The 400MW Rampion project is located 13 kilometres off…

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Scotia Gas Networks (SGN) has announced that it will voluntarily return £145m to customers after identifying excess profits from the most recent price control. Under Ofgem’s price control sharing mechanism this will result in £84 million being returned to customers. The…

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Louise Kingham, chief executive of the Energy Institute, said: “The strategy lays solid, economy-wide foundations and identifies the great challenges of our age. The energy sector has a defining role to play in making a success for the UK of clean…

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Peter Hughes argues that the UK still needs large gas plant  In the chronicles of Great Britain’s energy industry, 2017 will go down as a significant year. At a time already characterised by change and uncertainty, two events stand out.…

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