The Energy Bill is set to be introduced to parliament today (6 July) by business and energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. First announced within the Queens Speech in May, the Bill is designed to boost the UK’s energy security in light of the volatility seen over the last winter and the impact of the Russian
Households with electric vehicles (EV) and heat pumps are now saving £1,180 compared to those with petrol cars and gas heating. With inflation at its highest rate in 40 years, it is becoming increasingly cheaper to run an ‘Electric household,’ according to new research from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Inflation hit 9.1%
Boom clouded by supply chain disruption, a fragmented industry as well as ethical issues “It’s hot,” says Steve Springett, a director of the renewable energy brand Egg, cheerily assessing the solar market. “There’s two key factors: people are understanding the environmental benefits of it better, and energy is really, really expensive at the moment.” Consumer
Global increases in the cost of materials, freight, fuel and labor have set prices for new-build wind and solar back to where they were in 2019, according to a new report from BloombergNEF – but the setback for renewables is temporary, while for fossil fuels the cost gap continues to widen. The BloombergNEF report,
Westminster City Council has opened the doors to a retrofitted show home, a one-bedroom terraced flat in Queen’s Park, to encourage residents to make their home more energy efficient. Improvements made to the show home include: Internal wall and underfloor insulation Thermally efficient windows and doors Replacing the gas boiler with an energy-efficient air
Western Power Distribution (WPD) has pledged to ensure domestic customers can connect low carbon technologies when and where they want. The connectability pledge is one of four key priorities outlined in the network operators Business Plan, which shows how it is planning to invest £6.7 billion over the next price period. It comes as WPD releases
The impact of rising energy bills is continuing to be documented, with the number of households finding it challenging to pay rising as interest in energy efficiency also increases. Over four in ten (46%) adults who pay energy bills in Great Britain are finding it very or somewhat difficult to afford their energy bills,
PVEL stands for PV Evolution Labs. Their speciality is torturing solar panels to determine how tough they are. Every year they publish a report that separates Top Performing panels from those they don’t call Top Performing. This year was no different — except in the ways it wasn’t the same. This time, instead of
The European Union has no choice but to develop a coherent strategy on energy storage if it is to achieve its decarbonisation goals and end its dependency on Russian fossil fuel imports. That was the view expressed to Energy-Storage.news by Patrick Clerens, secretary general of the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) in an interview
Everyone’s looking for a way to keep the lights on when the power goes out. With increasingly intense weather knocking the power grid offline for days at a time in some regions, traditional fossil-fuel–based backup systems—namely portable or permanent generators—seem increasingly unreliable. That’s why residential solar power combined with battery storage (once an esoteric