Bidders have until 22 July to submit their requests to participate in a framework covering the development of bespoke solar photovoltaic arrays across 150 Yorkshire Water sites. Yorkshire Water has invited companies to tender for a new eight-year solar framework…

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Vattenfall’s application to build the Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm has been granted development consent. The 1.8GW project is expected to start operating in the mid 2020s, with 90 to 180 turbines (depending on their capacity) in a 592.069km2site 47km offshore of…

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Blue Energy’s High Constellation onshore wind farm has been granted development consent by the Scottish Government. The project comprises a wind farm in Argyll and Bute, with 10 turbines, and an onsite battery storage facility. The decision notice was issued…

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The last weekend in June, overnight on Sunday 28th, saw another record low power demand on the national transmission system. In early estimates the System Operator was expecting 15.3GW on the national transmission system, and even four hours ahead it…

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Vattenfall has announced that it is investigating plans for two new wind farms with battery storage in South West Scotland. The company has studied previously identified projects and identified two sites: Whiteneuk is around 5km south of Moniaive and it…

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Rebecca Williams, head of policy and regulation, RenewableUK:  “To meet net zero and recover from Covid, we need to put a rocket under our economy and that rocket has to run on clean energy. The CCC is clear about the huge opportunities right across the renewable energy…

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Battery owner Zenobe Energy has secured up to £20 million of funding to support a rollout of electric bus and charging infrastructure provided under service contracts to bus operators. The funding, from NatWest, is secured against the cashflows generated by Zenobe’s…

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Work has begun on refurbishing the Moyle interconnector, a 500MW HVDC link owned and operated by Mutual Energy which links Northern Ireland and Scotland. Siemens Gas and Power won the project to refurbish the interconnector, whose control and protection system…

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Innogy has placed a conditional order for 100 14MW wind turbines for its Sofia offshore wind farm with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. Final investment decision on the wind farm – covering an area the size of the Isle of Man…

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