Companies from business, finance, academic and civil society have called on the UK government to commit to stronger and more consistent carbon pricing. In a declaration signed by 50 companies earlier this week, the Zero Carbon Campaign called for carbon pricing in the UK's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) announcement, encouragement for all jurisdictions to include
Solar PV combined with energy storage represents a “zero-emissions threat” to gas generation in the US, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. While PV and batteries can perform the same services and “offer similar value” to natural gas power plants, dynamics of the competitive threat posed in the US energy market by solar-plus-storage and
For the second year in a row, CleanTechnica has published a series of in-depth reports on electric car drivers and EV charging infrastructure in North America and Europe. With our partners CATL and Volta, we expanded our reach and surveyed nearly 10,000 people across the world this time around. In the past several years, we
Measures to improve the UK's green infrastructure - including the creation of a UK infrastructure bank, a ramping up of electric vehicle (EV) policy and funding for hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) - have been detailed by the government. The National Infrastructure Strategy builds upon both theSpending Review – also released today –
If the UK government were to back renewable generation and flexible energy technologies like battery storage instead of a new nuclear plant, some £660m could be saved through to 2030, a new analysis has concluded. The publication of the paper, by Wärtsilä Energy, comes shortly after the UK Government confirmed plans to back small nuclear
In October, tech startup Equiwatt successfully raised £300,000 to roll out its smart energy management app throughout the UK. The funding will allow the company to run trials in Gateshead, as well as expand its team. The funding comes after the technology was selected to take part in an Energy Systems Catapult project in March,
SSE is set to treble its renewable output by 2030 thanks to an attractive pipeline of projects, and is on track to add 1GW of new capacity annually in the second half of the decade. This update comes as the company releases its 2020/21 interim results, which contain a strong focus on wind, as it
A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. The project has won grant support from the UK Government’s Advanced Propulsion Centre. RECOVAS is a partnership between EMR, three major vehicle manufacturers (Bentley Motors, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover), the University
How can the objectives of the 10-point plan be achieved? Boris Johnson announces 10-point green plan with 250,000 jobs Boris Johnson’s £12bn plan for a “green industrial revolution” spans renewable energy, nuclear power and countryside restoration. However, some of the objectives are likely to be difficult to reach, and the plan has been criticised for
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to begin the process of rejoining the Paris agreement with the stroke of a pen. As important as this will be, a more significant demonstration of Biden’s determination to rejoin the international fight against climate change will come in the form of the target the United States then puts on