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…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to support CEPSA’s commitment to reduce the environmental impact of its activities by financing a globally pioneering R&D project to increase the sustainability of its petrochemicals operations. To this end, the EU bank has granted a €60 million Investment Plan for Europe loan to…

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…

MANCHESTER, 03 February 2020: Close Brothers Leasing continues to strongly grow its Energy book through the provision of a £70m facility to Conrad Energy for the development of gas peaking power plants with a combined installed capacity of 180MW.   Peaking power plants run when there is high demand for…

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…