Details of the government’s upcoming long duration energy storage innovation competition have been revealed, with an event to provide application support this month.
Suppliers installed 760,000 domestic smart meters in Q1 2021, taking the number of smart and advanced meters in homes and small businesses to 24.2 million.
Over 60,000 green jobs are to be created as the result of £166.5 million of funding announced today (24 May) by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The government has a “mountain to climb” to reach its goals of phasing out new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and for all new cars to be zero-emission by 2035.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), together with Ofgem and Innovate UK, has launched a new Energy Digitalisation Taskforce (EDiT) .
ScottishPower and Good Energy are calling for regulatory reforms to close what they have labelled as “loopholes” in the energy retail market that allow for greenwashing.
Scottish Renewables has warned that the UK’s climate change targets will not be met without the removal of barriers to long duration storage such as pumped storage hydro.