LO3 Energy has launched what it has labelled as a patented blockchain software and transaction system.

The UK energy sector’s level of engagement with consumers lags significantly behind that of other industries.

Shell has agreed a plan with IONITY to allocate high powered electric vehicle chargers across 10 European countries starting with 80 of its biggest highway stations.

Northern Powergrid is to plough £1.9 million into the creation of a smart energy grid across its network, allowing its eight million customers to trade power and services using their home solar, battery systems and electric vehicles.

The government’s new industrial strategy has made local smart energy systems one of its priority areas of development.

The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has implored energy sector stakeholders to engage and collaborate with network companies in order to boost innovation.

The joint Irish and Northern Irish capacity mechanism has moved one step closer this afternoon by clinching EU state aid approval.

Centrica has pitched its future vision of the UK’s business energy market, suggesting that greater distributed power could save the economy billions, create thousands of jobs and help boost productivity.

Electric vehicles could provide as much as 11GW of grid flexibility by 2030, according to new analysis by Open Energi.

Earlier today chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget which, amongst a raft of other measures, pledged new funding to drive electric vehicle growth but dealt what some have labelled a “catastrophic blow” to new renewable deployment in the UK. Here is how the green economy has responded.