The Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain has vowed to prioritise the environment in the March budget. Sajid Javid has this week launched the beginning of the Budget process and announced that it will take place on Wednesday 11 March 2020. The Chancellor had said that the Budget will set out ambitious plans to […]

To get long-duration storage costs down to $0.05/kWh, research teams funded by ARPA-E are pursuing breakthroughs in flow batteries, hydrogen storage and other technologies – even thermovoltaics. Ten teams working to drive down the cost of long duration storage are competing in a way, using federal grant support to make enough progress to earn a […]

Octopus Renewables has secured a £185 million clean energy mandate from the National Gird UK Pension Scheme. Octopus Renewables, the specialist clean energy investor and part of Octopus Group, has won a new UK corporate pension mandate with the National Grid UK Pension Scheme (NGUKPS), to invest £185m in UK solar and onshore wind assets. […]

The 400MWh US system follows on from the announcement of a 250MWh system in the UK. Image: Highview Power. Highview Power is laying claim to the first installation of a long duration liquid air energy storage (LAES) system in the United States. The system – set to be a minimum of 50MW / 400MWh – is […]

Quorn has announced that they will be adding a carbon footprint label to their most popular products. In a move to be more transparent with customers, Quorn is introducing carbon footprint data for sixty per cent of its product volume, with the aim of better informing people who want to understand the environmental impact of […]

Business leaders from across the UK have been appointed for the UK’s first citizens’ assembly on climate change. The Climate Assembly UK was commissioned by six cross-party House of Commons Select Committees in summer 2019, in response to the Government’s commitment to meet net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Assembly, 110 members strong, are representative of […]

#SmartSolarStorage2020: GRIDSERVE said its new solar-plus-storage site is the first in the UK to include bifacial PV modules and single-axis trackers, as well as being unsubsidised. Image: GRIDSERVE. Renewables developer GRIDSERVE has completed a “game changing” hybrid solar-plus-storage farm in York, UK, claiming it to be the first in the country to boast single-axis trackers and […]

The City of London Corporation (CLC) has announced that the capital will get its first zero-emissions street. Beech Street, much of which runs under the Barbican Estate, will now be restricted to zero emission vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians by Spring 2020. This new initiative is subject to final approval by Transport for London (TfL). Emergency […]