A multi-million pound EU funded project is set to provide the Isles of Scilly with a new smart energy system, using new software platforms to manage supply and demand through renewables, energy storage and electric vehicles.
European renewables companies have become the latest to question the ambition of the European Commission’s clean energy package, launched last November.
The government’s £11 billion roll-out of smart meters must be judged by the long-term benefits it offers consumers, energy minister Jesse Norman has insisted.
National Grid is reportedly in talks with Google’s machine-learning company DeepMind to see how the British firm’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used to help manage supply and demand and across the energy system.
Germany-headquartered utility innogy has backed a renewed investment in innovation to return it to growth after earnings fell 10% in the year following its IPO.
The prime minister has said the business sector and government have an “important role to play” in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set at COP21 in 2015, claiming it is “vital” that both need to work together to meet the country’s climate targets.
A £180 million reserve power scheme established by National Grid ended without once being used, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has claimed.
TH Real Estate has pledged to cut the energy intensity of its worldwide property portfolio by almost a third by 2030 in the latest effort to increase its sustainability efforts and reduce the impact of climate change.
A new carbon price will be set by the UK at the start of the next Parliament following the country’s exit from the EU Emissions Trading System, according to documents released for today’s Budget.
