It’s only just February but, amidst intense disruption, 2019 looks set to be a year in which the energy supplier sector could change for good.Yesterday’s news that npower was to lose some 900 jobs over the coming year was perhaps a surprise, but not necessarily unexpected. The supplier, owned by German energy giant innogy, may
The French government has launched a 300MW solar tender in the Fessenheim area.The eponymous nuclear power plant is scheduled for closure in 2022. As part plans for the region’s economy, the state has committed €250 million to the project.The tender is divided into 200MW of ground-mounted solar, 75MW of large-scale rooftop installs with the final
The climate data for 2018 is now mostly in, though the ongoing shutdown of the US government has caused some datasets to be delayed.In this article, Carbon Brief explains why last year proved to be so remarkable across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface temperature of the planet.
Traditionally, utilities built and operated a portfolio of generation plants consisting of a few large base load units – typically nuclear or coal – some intermediate plants and a number of peakers – typically natural gas fired units with rapid ramping capability (visual below).Base load units ran flat out year-round, 24/7; the intermediate units were
Wood Mackenzie has predicted that the UK will join Europe’s “vanguard of subsidy-free utility-scale solar PV” in 2019 as project costs continue to fall.In a new report, authored by Wood Mackenzie analysts Tom Heggarty and Benjamin Attia, the consultancy firm has charted the top ten trends to watch in the year ahead and has predicted
Engineers and scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde say sandstone in the sea bed off the coast of the UK could be used to store high pressure compressed air.
Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) has unveiled two landmark solar-plus-storage projects on existing landfill sites which aim to be the first of their kind in the UK.CCC, which has been a prominent proponent of renewables, last week unveiled plans to develop the energy projects on landfill sites in Woodston and Stanground, both near Peterborough.
New science suggests Greenland may be approaching a dangerous tipping point, with implications for global sea-level rise.
Automotive giant Volkswagen has announced it is to launch a power supply division in a bid to take e-mobility into the “mainstream”.Volkswagen has established a new consumer-facing brand, Elli – short for ‘Electric Life’ – to develop a range of products and services that are connected with consumer energy demand and electric vehicle charging.Berlin-headquarted Elli
Hitachi and Toshiba abandon plans for new British nuclear reactors