Plans for the design of the largest smart city-wide energy system in the UK have been unveiled. The £2m scheme will cut energy bills and provide green heat, electricity and transport for residents. The Peterborough Integrated Renewables Infrastructure project (PIRI) combines a next generation heat network, electricity network and EV…

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised juwi AG and juwi Hellas S.A. on the sale and contracting of Project Kozani, a 204.3 MWp solar photovoltaic power project developed close to the city of Kozani in north-western Greece, to HELPE Renewables, a company of the Hellenic Petroleum group. A flagship…

Dr Jonathan Scurlock is the NFU’s chief renewable energy and climate change adviser. He writes: I have seen the future of electricity networks… and it’s impressively clean and quiet. One of the biggest challenges to decarbonising electricity generation using intermittent renewables like wind and solar power is their low “capacity…

London, 13 February 2020: Cubico Sustainable Investments (Cubico), a leader and global investor in renewable energy, has acquired and achieved financial close for the 102 MW Midlands solar PV project in Calhoun County, South Carolina, USA. Midlands benefits from a 20 year PPA with Dominion. The project is the third…

National law firm Weightmans has helped the Broad Group secure funding for the development of a new 12MW energy recovery facility (ERF) in Mid Wales. The Weightmans team, led by partners Levent Gürdenli, Sarah Walton and Brian Ghatan, performed the corporate, commercial, tax work and property due diligence for the…

The first projects to receive gap funding for heat network schemes have been announced today by the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in partnership with Triple Point Heat Networks Investment Management. With over £30 million awarded to five local authority projects and a further £10 million awarded…

London, 5 February 2020: Cubico Sustainable Investments  (Cubico),  a  leader and global investor in renewable energy, has acquired Arenales Solar PS, S.L., the owner of a 50 MW operational concentrated solar power (CSP) plant, from Pan- European Infrastructure Fund, managed by DWS, a global infrastructure asset manager. The Arenales project…

Jan. 29, 2020 – Boulder, Colo. – A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global wind power market to assess current and future development cycles and projections for new installed wind capacity. The report provides global market forecasts, segmented by region, through 2028. Global wind industry installations were flat…...

by Felix Davey, Energy Saving Trust When you think of renewable energy, what comes to mind? Towering wind turbines, visible from miles around? Or rows and rows of solar panels, stretching as far as the eye can see? Renewable energy is certainly booming. Ten years ago, 7% of electricity in the UK…

Habitat Energy has announced today that it has successfully reached an agreement with the Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc (the ‘Fund’) to optimize 74MW of Energy Storage System (ESS) projects in the UK. The multi-year agreements comprise three existing projects: a 20MW ESS in Wiltshire, a 5MW ESS in…