24 February, 2022 – Paul Verill, Director of EnAppSys, has highlighted how the ongoing energy crisis is a contributing factor to record clearing prices in the UK capacity market. The factors cited for encouraging this relationship include extreme gas price fluctuations and significantly expensive carbon costs.
23 February, 2022 – Levelling up has become a common phrase associated with the last elected government and refers to the overall improvement of multiple sectors throughout the countries economy and society. Experts are now increasingly pointing out that in order to successfully achieve its levelling up plans, the government must accelerate the transition to...
23 February, 22 – The UK government has handed out its first awards to projects developing long-duration energy storage. £6.7 million has been pledged so far and shows promising signs of encouraging other energy storage projects throughout the UK. If your organisation is interested in exploring how energy storage could benefit both your finances and...
21 February, 2022 – Alistair Dormer, Chief Environmental Officer and Executive Vice President of Hitachi, has vocally stated that short term challenges surrounding cost and other factors should not derail planned investment into renewable energy. Alluding to the current energy crisis, Dormer argues this is a stark reminder of the need to ‘double-down’ on net-zero...
18 February, 2022 – Storm Dudley that hit the UK on Wednesday has resulted in a dramatically high wind generation in Northern Ireland. The equivalent of 90% of Northern Ireland’s energy requirement (1GW) was met by wind turbines on Wednesday morning. The energy generated by the storm was so high that Northern Ireland also exported...
18 February, 2022 – Plans have been approved to extend Leeds City Council’s district heating network. The heating network in the city already benefits 2,000 buildings within the city. The heat provided is recovered from the waste of around 10,700 households in Leeds. A total of £7.2 million is being invested to add five new...
17 February, 2022 – A report published by Regulatory Assistance Project NGO has identified that heat pumps are now cheaper to run than a natural gas boiler. Rising fuel costs are resulting in gas being more expensive. Although electricity to run heat pumps has also increased, heat pumps that are installed with high efficiency may...
17 February, 2022 – Aurora Energy Research’s latest study highlights that 24GW of long duration electricity storage is required for wind to be a secure energy source for a net-zero future. Currently, wind along with solar are an intermittent energy source and during low production gas is required as a back-up energy source. However, wind...
16 February, 2022 – Semi-autonomous drones produced by Swiss technology company Sulzer Schmid can be used to inspect wind turbines. The drone will be used to do quick wind turbine blade inspections for wind projects. The drone pilot can carry out the inspections using the semi-autonomous drone. Software built-in the drone can be used to...
15 February, 2022 – £90 million of investment has been announced for the Greater London Authority in a bid to generate £500 million in green bonds from private investment. The fund will help finance energy efficiency projects along with installing onsite renewables in social housing and public buildings. The Greater London Authority expect that the...
