Moixa chief executive Simon Daniel says the UK is ready for a large-scale roll out of domestic battery storage across the UK. He wants to deploy 1GW of aggregated capacity, via the company’s GridShare platform, by 2020. He says the UK…
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Energy accelerator funding and support up for grabs
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The Ignite ‘Big Energy Idea’ Accelerator Programme has opened for 2017 applications from businesses and entrepreneurs working in the energy sector this week. Successful applicants will receive a package of pre-investment support, including specialist knowledge from experts, and the opportunity…
ETI to prioritise tidal stream technology over other marine renewables
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The UK marine industry should focus on tidal stream technology rather than tidal lagoon or wave energy in order to compete with other low carbon sources of energy, according to the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The government also needs to…
Private investors buy Green Deal home improvement scheme
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Greenstone Finance and Aurium Capital Markets have today bought the business and assets of the Green Deal Finance Company (GDFC), the body set up to manage the government’s home energy efficiency scheme. The deal included the transfer of the GDFC’s existing…
Falck Renewables chief: ‘there has never been a better time’ to acquire UK onshore wind projects in the UK
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The UK is set for acquisitions in its pipeline of onshore wind farm projects, despite uncertainty over Brexit and the government’s lack of support for the technology. That’s the view of Falck Renewables chief executive Toni Volpe. He told New…
System Operator to have legal separation, specific licence, new incentive scheme
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National Grid’s System Operator (SO) role should be clearly separated from its other activities over the next two years and become a legally separated entity, with its own licence and a different incentive framework, by 2019, according to new proposals.…
Climate change and the connected world top global risks in 2017
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Global risks are dominated by the environment and climate change, and by the connected world and Internet of Things, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report, which also named inequality among the three major risks. The WEF…
Mendip Green Party offers one-off payment for customers switching out of nuclear
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Mendip Green Party is offering a one-off payment for customers switching from any supplier using nuclear energy to Ecotricity or Good Energy. It has promised £20 to customers who switch a single fuel and £40 for a dual-fuel switch. The…
Carbon Trust launches competition to reduce cable damage during offshore construction
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The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has launched a new global innovation competition to find and fund the development of innovative solutions to a challenge facing the offshore wind farm industry today: how to monitor the condition of subsea…
European Commission gives €20.3m to Atlantis for tidal array project
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Tidal power company Atlantis has secured a €20.3m grant from the European Commission for its MeyGen Phase 1B project, which will be developed by the Demotide Consortium. Demotide will design, build and operate a 6MW turbine array, MeyGen Phase 1B, in…