The University of Manchester has been awarded funding by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) for a project aiming to improve understanding of the energy yield from offshore wind projects.
The Highland Council has given its backing to offshore plans from the West of Orkney Windfarm, part of a multi-billion pound 2GW offshore wind power plant.
Although the UK is on track to have 300,000 public chargepoints installed by 2030, too few have so far been installed outside London and the South East.
Thrive Renewables has formed a joint venture (JV) with Better Society Capital in order to provide £40 million of investment to community energy projects.
In this contributed blog, Chris Hazell, co-founder and CEO of battery pack manufacturer Fellten, looks at the challenges slowing down the transition to EVs and the novel technologies overcoming them.