The Competitions Market Authority (CMA) has ruled that “competition in the wholesale gas and electricity generation markets works well” in its provisional findings.
The National Trust is to make its “biggest ever” investment in renewable energy, pledging £30 million to install various generation technologies across its estate.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has published a report which outlines the benefits of businesses across the UK adopting on-site generation technologies, but has warned that there are a number of challenges hampering widespread adoption.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has urged the government to take immediate action to meet its commitments on climate change and criticised it over recent policy decisions.
Renewable energy could actually add more stability to electricity networks rather than hampering it, as the grid evolves toward greater levels of distributed generation, Enphase CEO Paul Nahi has said.
Labour MP and renewable energy proponent, Huw Irranca-Davies has been elected to chair the environmental audit committee in a secret ballot yesterday, while SNP minister Angus Brendan MacNeil will chair the energy and climate change (ECC) committee.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has confirmed that it will be closing the renewable obligation to onshore windfarms from 1 April 2016, one year early.
