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…

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…

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…

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised on an industry-first approach to streamline development and finance processes for solar PV projects. ‘Open Solar Contracts’, a collaboration between the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and The Terrawatt Initiative (TWI), provides freely available ‘open source’ standardised contract documentation, designed to simplify…

London-based Battery Energy Storage Solutions Ltd (“BESS”) was established in March 2017 by an executive team with extensive energy sector experience. The funding will enable the business to execute its strategy of becoming one of the UK’s largest independent owners and operators of battery storage assets. The short term strategy…

There is much interest, and more than a little turmoil within the automotive industry, as the UK and Europe shift gears towards fully embracing a zero-carbon emissions future. The UK government has set a deadline for ending the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2040. And although hybrid…

Trevor Fitzgerald has been director of estates for the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust for more than five years. Under his watch they are running two busy general hospitals and serving over 490,000 people in south-west London and north-east Surrey. As you would expect, it all results…

The reality is that the wind farm wouldn’t be there without Triodos Bank. In addition to the financial support, we received incredible amounts of advice over the years as we developed the project. Dan McCallen, co-founder of Awel Aman Tawe What challenge was the inspiration for your project? The inspiration…