Cornwall council has decided to put Wave Hub, a grid-connected offshore device used to test and develop wave energy devices, up for sale, Cornish Stuff website reports. The Hub has been in place since 2010 with four test slots available. Although…
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Two small suppliers cease trading
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Small suppliers Gnergy and Better Energy have ceased trading. Nottingham-based Better Energy was one of nine companies in breach of the requirement to be Data Communications Company (DCC) users. It gave up its supply licence in February and went into administration…
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Westminster City Council plans to hit 1000 EV charging points within a year
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Motorists currently believe there are only 100 to 200 electric vehicle charging points in London and almost a third believed there were no EV charging points near their home or workplace, according to Westminster City Council, Siemens and Ubictricity, which…
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Global coal financing falls as LNG infrastructure rises
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Global financial support for the fossil fuel industry has been increasing since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was adopted, environmental organisations say. Banking on Climate Change 2020, released by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International,…
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Domestic supply customers fall, FIT customers rise at Good Energy
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Good Energy saw its domestic supply customers fall by 8% in 2019, according to preliminary results for the year to 31 December. However, that loss was outweighed by a surge in feed-in tariff installations in advance of the scheme closing in…
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Dutch battery project reaches crowdfunding target
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Dutch company Giga Storage has successfully raised €3.7 million via crowdfunding site DuurzaamInvesteren to fund construction of a 12MW battery – the largest in The Netherlands. The battery, dubbed ‘Giga Rhino’ will be installed in 2020 at the Wageningen University &…
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Triodos loan to fund Pod Point EV chargers at 600 Tesco stores
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Pod Point is to supply, operate and maintained hundreds of EV charging points at Tesco stores. The expansion will be supported with a loan from Triodos Bank UK and funding from Volkswagen. The debt facility will support installation of EV charge points…
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RedT and Avalon merge as Invinity in bid to create ‘world leader’ in flow batteries
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UK-based RedT energy and US-based Avalon Battery Corporation are to merge with the aim of becoming a world leader in vanadium flow batteries.The new company will be known as Invinity Energy Systems (Invinity). Vanadium flow batteries supply heavy-duty, stationary energy storage, and…
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UK Power Networks seeks feedback and ideas in new plan for low-carbon heat
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UK Power Networks has outlined plans to plans to help reduce the carbon impact of heating and asks for ideas and comment. Heat accounts for over a third of total UK CO2 emissions. UK Power Networks is now consulting on…