Renewables

In Ireland, 32.5% of electricity on the grid was generated by renewable sources in May, just slightly below the amount generated by gas (39%).

Chargepoint operator (CPO) Believ has agreed a £300 million investment facility to roll out 30,000 new public chargepoints across the UK.

Low-carbon workflow management firm Jumptech has partnered with software provider Affinity EV to boost the efficiency of connecting EV buyers to chargers and energy packages.

Amber has closed an AU$45 million funding round to advance its V2G technology and expand deeper into the UK and European markets.

The budget reconciliation bill working through Congress in the US would eliminate the EV tax credit introduced under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Local planning authorities in the UK face resource constraints that limit their ability to engage with energy planning, and many planning officers lack the expertise to engage with energy planning processes effectively.

Renewable energy investor AMPYR Distributed Energy has secured a multi-million-pound debt facility from an international banking major to grow its ambitions in the UK solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) sectors.

News from the UK’s offshore wind sector as an offshore substation has been completed for SSE Renewables’ Dogger Bank C, and Orsted has awarded £100,000 funding as part of the community benefit fund for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind development.

The latest data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has revealed that 67% of all electricity meters in Britain are smart or advanced meters.

A new project supported by the Welsh government is seeking to develop a new generation of tidal stream turbine blades.