The Scottish Government has set out a strictly limited role for hydrogen in providing domestic heat in a new Draft Energy Strategy. Although it plans to produce hydrogen from a huge expansion of offshore wind turbines and highlighted an ambition…

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Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has claimed its ‘biggest ever’ month in adding electric vehicle (EV) charging points to existing petrol stations in the UK. It installed 38 EV chargers at seven sites in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leicestershire, West Suffolk and…

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UK venture capital fund the Clean Growth Fund has led a funding round that secured £4.5 million for startup technology company Measurable.energy. The company designs and manufactures smart, machine learning-enabled power sockets that it says reduces the energy costs of…

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wants to install electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at more than 120 job centres across Britain and it has signed a £4.3 million contract with Mitie to deliver the plan. The deal covers…

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Exagen has submitted a planning application for a 500MW/1GWh battery on land to the northeast of Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, to Blaby District Council. The £350 million battery site, which is around ten times larger than most battery projects currently providing…

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Ukraine’s reconstructed electricity system will be more decentralised and digitalised and will have a high focus on renewables, the country’s leaders say. In his annual presidential address to the Ukrainian parliament on 28 December, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, Ukraine had…

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Tenders close on 17 January for a £300,000 contract to install a solar PV canopy over the car parks at a Salisbury leisure centre. The project is part of Wiltshire Council’s plans to become carbon neutral across its building portfolio…

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Taking steps to ensure continued climate stability must be “a national security priority for any government”, the Environmental Audit Committee said in a new report and tackling the immediate energy security and affordability issues caused by the war in Ukraine…

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Ofgem has released details of Renewables Obligation (RO) late payments, that have been recovered from the administrators of suppliers which have gone bust. The regulator has distributed £3,773,813.39 to suppliers – a fraction of the £17,610,098.52 owed by the failed…

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Consumers will reimburse gas distribution networks (GDNs) up to an extra £100 million in the coming financial year because the high gas price has caused a jump in the bill for replacing gas ‘lost’ from the networks. Around 0.4% of…

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