Hydrogen vehicle refuelling company ITM Motive has been spun off as a separate, wholly owned subsidiary of its parent ITM Power. All English refuelling assets have been transferred to ITM Motive, which was set up as a division in 2020…
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Foresight Solar Fund takes first battery storage stake alongside JLEN
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Foresight Solar Fund has acquired a 50% equity stake in Sandridge Battery Storage, which is developing a 50MW lithium-ion battery energy storage system in Melksham to be energised in October 2022. JLEN Environmental Assets Group will also acquire a 50% equity…
Fires hit US biomass plant owned by major UK supplier
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For the second time within a month fire has broken out at a facility in North Carolina, US, processing wood pellets for Enviva, a major supplier of biomass to UK power plants. Campaigners in the southern USA say this is the…
Ørsted warns of £350M bill to repair array cables in its offshore wind farms
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Ørsted has warned that it expects to pay out an estimated DKK3 billion (£350 million) between now and 2023 to take remedial action on damaged cables within up to 10 of its wind farms offshore of the UK and Europe. The so-called…
Scottish farm slurry to provide heat and hot water for London’s King’s Cross
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The 67 acre King’s Cross estate is to switch to green gas, in a deal agreed with Iona Capital, to provide its heat and hot water for its 2,000 homes, 5 million square ft of offices, retail and dining space.…
Government spending watchdog says HM Treasury is failing on environmental taxes: poor strategy, tracking and leadership
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Treasury and tax departments have little understanding of whether the four taxes classified as ‘environmental taxes’ have achieved their aims, or of how the tax system as a whole can support environment goals, according to new findings by the Public…
Vattenfall’s network business wins major contract for zero-carbon development in Edinburgh
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Vattenfall IDNO, an Ofgem regulated independent distribution network operator (iDNO), has been awarded a multi-million-pound contract by developer Parabola to provide and operate the electrical infrastructure at Edinburgh Park Southern Phase. The masterplan for Edinburgh Park Southern Phase is for it to be…
Sizewell C consent examination raises more questions over managing the East Coast’s energy boom
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National Infrastructure Planning (NIP) has submitted extensive requests for information on the cumulative effects of energy infrastructure on the east coast, to EDF-backed NNB Generation Company. The questions are an early stage of assessing the application for planning consent for Sizewell…
Transmission operators plan to standardise offshore connections to make them ‘offshore grid ready’
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Seven European transmission system operators have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the launch of Eurobar, an initiative on international standardisation of interfaces and technology for interconnecting offshore wind platforms across Europe. The aim of Eurobar is to integrate offshore…
Shortlist announced in tender for two offshore links worth £1.3B
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Three ‘bidding groups’ have been shortlisted in the tender to own and operate the offshore transmission connections to two offshore wind farms. Ofgem says the value of operating and owning the two links is around £1.3billion. Triton Knoll is a 857MW wind farm…