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Octopus Energy has made its first investment into US renewable energy with the purchase of two solar farms.

Newcastle International Airport has secured its first-ever sustainable finance package, totalling £208 million, from HSBC, ING, NatWest and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), to help reach net zero by 2035.

“I find it extraordinary that we are talking about banning solar on farmlands, but we are talking about putting oil drills on farmlands – it is an industrialised process,” said Simon Maine, managing director, corporate communications at investment firm Brookfield Asset Management.

A new research by OnePoll, on behalf of Statkraft, showed that 63% of Britons are concerned whether the energy they use comes from renewable sources.

​ScottishPower has submitted a planning application for the UK’s largest electrolyser as part of the Green Hydrogen for Scotland project.

​The T-1 Capacity Market (CM) auction has cleared at a record high price of £45/kW/year on day one.

Independent energy consultant Stephen Cirell​ offers his suggestions for the role of local authorities in the energy transition in 2021, for the thirteenth installment of Current± Predicts.