decarbonisation

Norwegian state-owned power firm Statkraft has outlined plans to invest nearly £1 billion a year over the next six years in a bid to deploy multiple gigawatts of renewable power.

​The decarbonisation of transport offers Scotland its biggest challenge in meeting its emissions reduction targets, despite outperforming the rest of the UK overall, according to the country’s climate change watchdog.

Blowing wind conditions have sent Great Britain’s grid carbon intensity to stunning lows this week, with some regions of the country recording carbon intensities as low as 12g CO2/kWh.

The British public is in favour of a significantly decarbonised, decentralised energy system and wants the government to support the transition to such a system, a new survey has found.

Drax Insight’s latest Electric Insights report for Q2 2018 has revealed that coal generation fell to new lows between April and June, responsible for 1.3% of the country’s power mix over the period and less than 1% in June alone.

The Labour Party has said it would ramp up investment in green energy technologies and infrastructure in a bid to reverse the impact of Conservative Party cuts.

Engie has pointed towards solid organic growth in its renewables and networks divisions as the French energy major continues to reap the dividends of a strategic redirection.

Octopus, the UK’s largest onshore renewables investor and owner of more than 1GW of utility-scale solar in the UK, has said that National Grid’s warnings of ‘summer low’ demand challenges are ringing true as the country continues to bask in a heatwave.

Yesterday National Grid published its annual Future Energy Scenarios document, one of the most hotly anticipated events in the energy sector diary. Current± has compiled some of the headline figures.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has stressed that the UK could meet half its power demand from renewables by 2030, and urged the government to ditch new nuclear plans as a result.