The National Wealth Fund has announced a £200 million commitment to support Associated British Ports (ABP), alongside £100 million commercial funding jointly from Bank of America, Lloyds and NatWest, help accelerate capital deployment. Eligible projects in the programme include a…

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ScottishPower is offering its customers half price electricity during the World Cup with two hours of cut rate power during all planned group matches for Scotland and England. ScottishPower said the limited-time offer will help customers make the most of…

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Rachel Solomon Williams, Executive Director, Aldersgate Group: “Today’s publication of Carbon Budget 7 is a major step forward in the UK’s plans to meet its net zero commitments. It is good to see the government is setting a target that…

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Drax Group has announced an agreed acquisition of Bluefield Solar Income Fund saying it is an attractive opportunity to grow its UK renewable generation business whilst being highly complementary to the Wider Drax Group’s existing operations and FlexGen portfolio. Drax…

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Evero has submitted a planning application to equip a wood-burning power plant within the HyNet industrial cluster in North West England with carbon capture and storage (CCS). Ince Bio Power currently generates energy from waste wood, which the company says…

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UK Power Networks has begun the early development stage of a project that could provide backup power for communities, by using hydrogen produced locally at times when there is excess power being generated. It is working with hydrogen specialists The…

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Ofgem has been named as the administrator for the Bill Discount Scheme, which will give households that live near new electricity transmission infrastructure electricity bill discounts of up to £250 per year. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero…

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Great British Energy -Nuclear has signed up Jacobs to develop environmental baseline data for the Oldbury site in South Gloucestershire. Oldbury, on the south bank of the Severn river, had two Magnox reactors totalling over 400MW that began operation in…

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DESNZ has said it will not take forward plans to require car parks to install PV canopies. A DESNZ spokesperson said: “After careful consideration and close engagement with industry, we have decided against mandating solar panels on new car parks.…

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Hitachi Energy and Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on developing end-to-end approaches for zero-emission construction sites. The collaboration brings together electric construction equipment with clean power supply, energy management, and system integration…

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