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A large group of major multinational companies has urged European member states to support a renewable energy target of at least 35% by 2030.

An official from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has pushed back against claims that “question marks” hang over government decarbonisation plans, stating that good progress had been made.

Government policy and regulation offer the biggest barriers to the deployment of battery energy storage in the UK according to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Energy Storage, which claims 12GW of batteries could be deployed by 2021 under the right circumstances.

Eurelectric has pledged to reach carbon neutrality within Europe’s power supply “well before” the year 2050.

Digitalisation in solar and across the wider European energy market could create “vast” market opportunities and entirely new business models, a new report has found.

Great Britain’s electricity networks will collaborate on new markets for flexibility services to rival the need for traditional upgrade investments, developing a national smart grid which could deliver £17 billion back to the economy by 2050.

Independent energy supplier So Energy has claimed to be the first in the UK to offer its customers the choice of where their energy is supplied from.

Clean energy utility Good Energy is to install its first battery storage project for long-time partner the Eden Project.

The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) is to merge with the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE).

Climate change minister Claire Perry has said she would be “personally disappointed” if the UK used ‘flexibilities’ to fill the shortfall in meeting the fourth and fifth carbon budgets identified in her own Clean Growth Strategy (CGS).