The Scottish Government’s environment committee has raised ‘grave concerns’ over the loss of European funding for climate change research as a result of Brexit. The Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCLR) Committee Report on Scotland’s  2018-19 budget said the Scottish…

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Northern Powergrid has announced details of an £83 million programme to prepare its regional economy for rapid growth of electric vehicles, domestic heat pumps and renewable power. The Smart Grid Enablers programme, which includes involves overhauling a communications network that is the…

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Ofgem wants to know whether a second company should be able to provide dispute resolution services for energy customers. Currently a single company – Ombudsman Services – arbitrates when domestic or microbusiness customers are in dispute with their energy company.…

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The Scottish government has announced a new £60m fund to help large scale projects that support Scotland’s Energy Strategy, which was published in December 2017. Projects which deliver low carbon heating solutions, integrated energy systems, and ultra-low emission vehicle charging infrastructure…

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Nissan has launched a UK domestic energy product that combines solar panels and storage. The company described  Nissan Energy Solar as an ‘all in one’ solution that could encompass charging an electric vehicle (Nissan offers the Leaf and e-NV200 options) and on cloudy days.  The new product also…

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Cyber security has become more important as a global risk, according to the annual Global Risks Report produced by the World Economic Forum with Marsh&Mclennan and ZurI hope Insurance. It was a standout risk and likely to become still more…

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Electricity from renewables will soon be consistently cheaper than from most fossil fuels, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). Its latest report, Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2017,  said: “Already today, and increasingly in the future, many renewable power generation projects…

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Eland Cables, Enertechnos, Brunel University and The Welding Institute have combined in a project to reduce cable losses. The project is supported by a £1 million Innovate UK grant. The new ‘long linear capacitor’ cable technology is dubbed the Capacitive Transfer System…

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UK Power Networks and Open Utility are planning to develop and an online marketplace for local flexibility. The service is planned to launch in spring 2018, at which point flexibility providers will be able to register their assets and start to…

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It will cost the same to self-generate and store power as it will to buy from an energy provider by 2022 in Europe, Ernst and Young have said in a new report. The firm also predicted that electric vehicles would…

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