Kemsley power station is designed to process 550,000 tonnes of waste per year to produce both electricity and heat A combined heat and power plant in Kent has become the first operational energy-from-waste facility to receive payments under the government’s Contracts for Difference clean energy subsidy scheme, the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) confirmed this […]

Biomethane produced at Cambridgeshire facility has been directly connected to the Gas National Transmission System for first time Renewable gas produced from cattle manure and straw at a farm in Cambridgeshire has been directly injected into the gas grid to help householders heat their homes and cook meals, in what National Grid claims is a […]

The latest stretch of coal-free power on the UK grid came to a close yesterday, as the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire came online to help meet peak power demand. The move brought the latest coal-free run to an end at 55 days, falling short of the 67 day record set earlier this year. The initial […]

A consortium made up of Shell and Eneco is to develop an offshore wind farm that will incorporate a range of “technology demonstrations” including floating solar and hydrogen produced by electrolysis. The 759 megawatt (MW) Hollandse Kust (noord) facility will be subsidy free and able to produce at least 3.3 terawatt hours annually, according to Eneco, a […]

Renewable energy developer Apex Clean Energy has announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Facebook for approximately 170MW of renewable power from its Lincoln Land Wind project in the US state of Illinois. This latest transaction, the third since 2019, makes the social media giant Apex’s largest corporate customer by megawatt. Lincoln Land Wind will […]

Wood Mackenzie tapped Station A’s building-level data for a new C&I solar market analysis. The upshot: huge unused potential. As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on in the United States, the hardest-hit segment is likely to be commercial solar — projects built on businesses, schools and government buildings. Compared to its pre-pandemic projections, Wood Mackenzie is forecasting a […]

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is helping the government of Maldives to develop a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant. ADB has issued a $73.39 million concessional loan and grant to Maldives to develop the $151.13 million plant. ADB is providing a $40 million loan as cofinancing whilst the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism will provide […]

The chief executive of Volvo Cars described plug-in hybrids as a “very popular concept” on Tuesday, but emphasized the need for government support when it comes to charging infrastructure. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs, are cars which have an internal combustion engine as well as a battery-powered electric motor. Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box […]

Clean energy generated a historic 40 per cent of the bloc’s electricity in the first half of 2020, according to green think tank Ember Clean energy generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU over the first six months of 2020, largely due to a raft of new solar and wind installations dominating an […]

Offshore wind power is now so cheap that farms are set to pay money back to consumers from mid-2020s, Imperial College London study predicts UK offshore wind farms could be the first in the world to pay money back to consumers, following steep declines in the cost of wind power driven by falling technology costs […]

WindFloat Atlantic project off the coast of Portugal is the world’s first semi-submersible floating wind farm, according to its developers Continental Europe’s first floating wind farm is now fully operational, capable of generating enough electricity to supply the equivalent of 60,000 users per year, its developers announced today. Following a decade in development, the last […]

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a new material that could capture more than 90% of carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources. The technology will help the energy company to capture carbon emissions from natural gas-fired power plants, using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon […]

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails ‘further step in support of the Paris Agreement’ as national oil majors back new emissions goals The world’s largest oil companies have today announced a new target to reduce carbon intensity across the industry, in a bid to bring its upstream greenhouse gas emissions into line with the Paris […]