I. OVERVIEW OF THE E-MOBILITY MARKET IN THE UK The race is on to transform the UK’s transport sector in the next 15 years. The UK Government has indicated it wants to bring forward its ban on the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars in the UK from 2040 to at least 2035.¹ This change comes after the Independent Committee on Climate Change advised that the original date of 2040 was too late to achieve the UK’s net zero carbon-emissions target for 2050, which was enshrined into UK law in June 2019.² By accelerating the phasing out of…

Dublin, London, 23 March 2020: Greencoat Renewables PLC, (“Greencoat Renewables” or the “Company”), the renewable infrastructure company invested in euro-dominated assets, is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire a portfolio of operating wind assets in France from John Laing Group for a total consideration of €30.3 million. The portfolio of three windfarms come with 16-year long term fixed rate project finance and have an overall net enterprise value of €95 million. Following the acquisition, Greencoat Renewables’ total installed capacity base will increase to 528.1MW. The acquisition will mark the Company’s first investment in the continental European renewable energy market.…

A project trialled in Kent, designed to improve the reliability of electricity supplies and support the UK’s move towards a low carbon future, has been recognised as trail blazing in the energy industry. Electricity distributor UK Power Networks received the Innovation Project of the Year accolade for their Kent Active System Management (KASM) trial. KASM was recognised by the judges as a truly innovative and industry-first project that allows for better real-time analysis of what is happening on the electricity network, making for an even more reliable network. The trial, that took place along the East Kent 132 kV electricity…

HORIBA MIRA and Dearman accelerate use of liquid nitrogen for primary power A revolutionary hybrid bus that runs on both diesel and liquid nitrogen has completed a rigorous series of trials to bring it one step closer to the road. The hybrid bus – CE Power – is the world’s first to be powered by liquid nitrogen and has been built by engineers at HORIBA MIRA as part of an Innovate UK consortium. The bus utilises alternative propulsion to address urban air pollution challenges and features a high-efficiency, zero emission Dearman Engine, powered by liquid nitrogen, alongside a conventional diesel…

Eco Energy World (EEW) Australia, an Australian developer of large scale solar projects, is excited to announce the approval of 3 new solar projects totaling 410MW, including its largest project up to date of 280 MW in Bouldercombe, Queensland. The projects will be connected directly to the grid, providing the possibility to supply energy not only to Queensland, but potentially New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia; aiding Queensland’s transition to sustainable means of large scale power generation. EEW Chairman Svante Kumlin stated “Queensland has huge potential for solar energy with its high irradiance, good infrastructure and availability…

A new study by climate scientists – published in the journal Environmental Research Letters – has advanced the understanding of the potential for wind power to provide energy during the coldest spells of winter weather. The team, which involved scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre, Imperial College London and the University of Reading, compared wind power availability with electricity demand in winter and they found an interesting result. Hazel Thornton, of the Met Office Hadley Centre, is one of the paper’s authors. She said: “During winter in the UK, warmer periods are often windier, while colder periods are more…

ACCIONA Energía has started up the first hybrid plant for storing electricity in batteries that is part of a grid-connected wind farm in Spain. The company has also developed simulation software that will be used in the plant, for which it has been awarded the ‘Eolo Innovation’ prize for by the Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE). These two projects make the company a pioneer in this kind of solutions, aimed at facilitating the integration of variable-generation renewables into the grid and optimizing the management of the power produced. Located in Barasoain (Navarra, northern Spain), the plant is equipped with a…

DANBURY, Conn., May 30, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL), a global leader in delivering clean, innovative and affordable fuel cell solutions for the supply, recovery and storage of energy, today announced that it was awarded  a $3.0 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) division of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance the commercialization of cost-effective and clean long-duration energy storage. The project will further develop FuelCell Energy’s advanced solid oxide cell technology capable of alternating between electrolysis and fuel cell power generation mode (reversible SOFC, or RSOFC) in an energy storage application.  RSOFC…

Investment company Rockfire Capital acquires solar parks in Great Britain, expanding its portfolio in the field of renewable energies. London. WIRSOL has sold part of its portfolio of solar parks in the United Kingdom to the investment company Rockfire Capital. The portfolio disposed of by WIRSOL, in conjunction with its British subsidiary WIRSOL Energy Ltd., consists of 19 solar parks, two of them located in Northern Ireland. The 19 solar sites, each ranging between 2.5 MWp and 20.5 MWp, have a total capacity of around 105 MWp. Cumulatively the portfolio that has been sold produces enough energy to generate almost 100…