Two coal power stations in the east midlands – Cottam and West Burton A – are now to be home to solar PV with a combined capacity of over 1GW. Developed by Island Green Power, the Cottam Solar Project is to generate up to 600MW, while West Burton Solar Project is to generate up to
It sounds radical but 150,000 people Britons have already cut the cord and become self-sufficient As energy bills soar and Britain braces itself for a winter of discontent, there is one family who aren’t worried. Matthew and Charis Watkinson, and their children Elsa and Billy, have managed to evade the national energy crisis by becoming
The shortage of tanker drivers has sparked a run on the pumps – and the only question now is what we’ll run out of next On Saturday, a friend who spends most weekends trekking halfway across the country to check up on her increasingly frail parents spent an anxious morning scouring empty garages for petrol.
Analysis: Closure of huge storage plant, misplaced optimism in fracking and demise of North Sea gas have all played a part In the midst of a global energy crisis Europe is preparing to enter the winter with its lowest reserves of gas in at least 10 years. For the UK, which has some of the
With the catastrophic impacts of climate change seen around the world, there is little time left to act but energy storage has a huge opportunity to be part of the solution, the audience at World Energy Storage Day online conference heard today. Dr Rahul Walawalkar, the founder and president of the India Energy Storage Alliance
Ministers are set to propose switching green levies from electricity to gas, in an effort to encourage the uptake of heat pumps. The proposals, originally reported in the FT, suggest that the shift would be staggered over the course of ten years and would not impact the overall cost of a dual fuel bill. Currently,
Businesses have called on the government to set an end date for the use of unabated gas in the electricity sector in the UK. In a letter penned to Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng MP, the chief executive of 13 major businesses urged ministers to set a target of
Pipeline of 6-8GW of projects with grid connections could be built out under ‘right conditions’, says ESN Key priorities for the UK Government, Ofgem and the grid operator include the development of markets that incentivise further investment in all kinds of energy storage, said the Electricity Storage Network (ESN). Markets should incentivise a range of
Addison Lee, a London-headquartered private hire taxi and courier company, and the UK’s largest private vehicle hire firm, today announced that its entire fleet will become fully electric by 2023. Its current fleet currently stands at around 4,000 cars. More electric taxis for London The company says it will spend £160 million ($219 million) to
Warning from the supply chains... We have been receiving a number of warnings from our supply chain that unfortunately solar and battery prices will rise in Q1 2022. This is as a result of a number of factors but one of the most significant is the growing power shortages in China which have a