Scottish Power becomes first big UK energy firm to switch to 100% wind power
The company has sold off its conventional power stations to Drax
Six climate questions for ‘Green GB’
Scientists say we must keep global temperature rise under 1.5C – so what does that mean for the UK?Next week, ministers are likely to ask their advisers how Britain can reduce carbon emissions in line with that target.They’ve declared what they’re calling Green GB Week – a celebration of the UK’s achievement as a world
UK’s housing stock ‘needs massive retrofit to meet climate targets’
Hundreds of millions of pounds must be spent on the UK’s draughty housing stock to meet the government’s climate change targets, with progress so far too slow to make the difference needed. Repairing existing homes to a high standard, with insulation and renewable energy technology, would cut consumer bills and bring health improvements, a new
Centrica completes brace of battery storage units with combined 100MW capacity
Centrica has completed the deployment of almost 100MW of energy storage capacity across two projects in the UK that are able to respond to peaks in demand within two minutes.The 49MW projects are in Brigg in North East Lincolnshire and Peterborough on land adjacent to Centrica’s existing gas-fired power plants.
Tesla Hikes Powerwall Prices to Better Reflect ‘Value’
The global price adjustment comes as Tesla struggles to keep up with Powerwall demand.
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”The report,
Government must be more ambitious on EVs, bring forward conventional vehicle phase-out
Committee on Climate Change (CCC) chair Lord Deben has this week urged the government to be more ambitious on electric vehicles as a matter of urgency and, crucially, bring forward the proposed phase-out of conventional vehicle by five years.However his words may have fallen on deaf ears with the Department for Transport having yesterday announced
SolarEdge New Tech at the Solar and Storage Show
We met our friends at SolarEdge at the Solar and Storage show in Birmingham in October.
Grid trading and off-peak incentives to spark ‘huge growth’ for residential storage in 2019
The rise of grid trading and off-peak tariffs, rather than the closure of the feed-in tariff and potentially the export tariff, will see the domestic storage market experience “huge growth” over 2019 according to SolaX’s European product manager ahead of next week’s Solar & Storage Live.
SolarEdge give the low down at the Solar and Storage show
We met our friends at SolarEdge at the Solar and Storage show in Birmingham this week.