Offshore wind smashes price records in third CfD auction round
The UK’s offshore wind sector has smashed records for price in the government’s third Contracts for Difference auction round, with prices running as low as £39.65/MWh. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) this morning unveiled the hotly
Climate change action: We can’t all be Greta, but your choices have a ripple effect
Is individual action pointless in the face of climate change? Let's not beat around the bush: the simple answer has to be "yes". Think about it: what difference does one person forgoing a lamb chop for a lentil bake, deciding
U.N. climate summit to test world’s resolve to halt warming
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - After a summer of wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is banking on new pledges from governments and businesses to abandon fossil fuels during a special climate summit in New York
Open season: the next steps for energy storage
The world has watched on as some of its leading regional markets, China, South Korea, Australia, Japan, parts of the US, the UK, and many parts of Europe have raced ahead in deploying energy storage in the last five years,
Smart meter rollout deadline extended to 2024
The government is to extend the deadline for energy suppliers to install smart meters in homes by four years to 2024. The extension, included within a consultation document published yesterday, ends months of speculation that the Department for Business, Energy
How to build the perfect Bug Out Bag
There are many unexpected events in our lives. Some of the more serious ones could necessitate leaving our home very quickly. But how do you prepare? I know that sounds scary, but you want to be prepared so you
I now look back on my 20 years of climate activism as a colossal failure
In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed. But the reality is that we continue
Record Growth In Residential Energy Storage In Q2
Between April 1 and June 30, 2019, behind the meter residential energy storage in the US experienced its greatest increase in history — 35 megawatt-hours, according to a new US Energy Storage Monitor report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
The Marriage of Battery Storage and Solar Panels
Solar panels and battery storage may have started out as the unlikely couple but are becoming more and more inseparable in todays’ world. But just as the ups and downs of finances impact a relationship, so do the sinking costs