Inclusion of solar PV in Green Homes Grant’s local authority allocation welcomed
The solar sector has welcomed the including of solar PV with the Green Homes Grant’s local authority allocation. As part of the government’s £2 billion Green Homes Grant, £500 million of funding will be allocated to local authorities for helping
Construction industry is the energy transition’s ‘forgotten sector’ – but battery storage can help
Shaun Montgomery is Business Development Manager at xelectrix Power, a maker of high voltage energy storage systems for on-grid and off-grid applications. We are living in a time that Climate Change has officially become a global issue that has found
The UK’s biggest balancing act
The nation’s electricity system operator said it wanted more energy storage facilities and to procure new stability products following a big power outage last year. Some 12 months on, the country’s biggest battery storage company has rolled up its sleeves
The Feed In Tariff is Dead, Long Live the Smart Export Guarantee!
It was sad news when the government killed the Feed-In Tariff, the guaranteed payments that solar home owners received for generating and exporting solar energy. There were a lot of complaints when the scheme ended on 1 April 2019, especially
This election isn’t about the next four years. It’s about the next four millennia
Time is running out to act on global heating. Electing Donald Trump the first time cost us dearly; a second term would be catastrophic All American elections determine the character of the country for the next four years. And they
What happens to old EV batteries?
EV batteries are gaining a new lease on life once they're no longer needed on the road, which is good news for the environment BloombergNEF (BNEF) has released data that forecasts the global mountain of used batteries will amount to
David Attenborough, Why Did It Take You So Long?
Sir David finally dives into the apocalypse In 1968, a young(er) David Attenborough stood in a television studio and watched as the first image of Earth was transmitted back from space from the Apollo 8 mission. He recounts the scene
‘Super Power solution’: Solar, wind and batteries could blow away fossil fuels, nuclear by 2030
A new report co-authored by energy expert Tony Seba predicts that the combination of solar and wind energy with batteries could undercut and disrupt the existing global energy system with “the cheapest power available” over the next decade. Seba and
Low emission and clean air zones: all you need to know
With the UK Government’s deadline to ban the sale of all new diesel, petrol and hybrid cars possibly less than 10 years away, local authorities across the UK are trying to do their bit to promote clean air. Originally planned