Tim Pick, the UK’s first Offshore Wind Champion, has called on the UK government to mobilise investment in supply chains to reduce grid constraints and compete with the UK Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan.
Clean heat technology start-up Futraheat has closed a £1.5 million seed round to accelerate product development and commercialisation of its high temperature heat pump technology.
Following investment from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), UK Power Networks is set to launch a “major series of innovation projects” to help the UK achieve a “Silicon Valley of energy.”
Telecommunications company Vodafone is utilising on-site solar panels, big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to drive energy efficiencies across its UK networks.
As part of the demand flexibility service trial, energy company British Gas has paid out over £1.8 million since December 2022, saving at total of 147MWh of energy.
Renewable energy developer SSE Renewables has revealed that its application to build the UK’s largest offshore wind farm, which would be capable of generating 4.1GW of renewable energy, has commenced determination.
Government policy, power prices and a drive towards greater sustainability are resulting in a rapidly increasing number of people adopting EVs, solar installations and domestic batteries.
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has indicated that should the UK government be slow in the rollout of EV and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, the UK could miss out on £6.5 billion on energy bills.
The UK government has revealed that OVO Energy, Scottish Power and British Gas have been responsible for over 70% of forced prepayment meter installations in 2022.
