SSEN hits 'important milestone' using CMZ to manage the grid
Scottish and South Electricity Networks (SSEN) has used ‘Constraint Managed Zones’ (CMZ) to save customers £230,000 and avoid 2,450 tonnes of CO2 emissions on the Isle of Islay.
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BEIS aiming to publish energy white paper in spring despite COVID-19
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is aiming to have the long-awaited energy white paper out in spring, it confirmed today.
Budget 2020: Mixed reactions from energy sector as Budget lacks net zero ambition
Current± spoke to companies, groups and charities operating in the energy and environmental space to gauge their reactions to the fabled red briefcase.
Budget 2020: Carbon capture given £800 million boost as renewables sidestepped
Funding boosts for carbon capture and storage (CCS), electric vehicles (EVs) and nuclear announced, as renewables are once again absent from the UK's Budget.
Innovation 'essential' to meet net zero by 2050, Energy Systems Catapult finds
Government must enable more innovation for net zero, the Energy Systems Catapult (ESC) has concluded.
'One-off' factors help drive global decarbonisation as coal continues its fall in UK
Globally, CO2 emissions fell faster than they have for decades in 2019, but this was driven by unsustainable “one-off” factors.
Hydrogen and bioenergy alongside renewables offer cheaper route to net zero than nuclear, finds NIC
New technologies, rather than nuclear, could offer a faster and cheap route to net zero.
More offshore wind will be needed to hit net zero than previously thought, says BEIS
Hitting net zero by 2050 will require more wind power than was originally envisioned by the government, according to the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
PODCAST: Coronavirus contingencies, BP's net zero plans and the re-expansion of CfDs
In this month’s episode of the Solar Media Podcast, Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe discuss how the clean energy economy is responding to the coronavirus, while Andy reports from PV Expo in Tokyo, which itself felt the effects of the virus outbreak. Cutting edge solar tech, CfDs, BP's net zero plans and what Jeff Bezos is doing for the environment also feature.