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Energy storage firm Gravitricity has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with infrastructure company VSL Systems UK to explore purpose-built underground green hydrogen storage.

National Grid is set to integrate green technology to reduce the use of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) from the £1 billion London Power Tunnels (LPT) project.

If the UK had transitioned fully away from fossil fuels to renewable technologies it could have reduced the cost of energy bills in 2022 by around £1,750, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has said.

The energy crisis could expose energy suppliers to around £1.9 billion of debt, much of which would be unrecoverable, according to a new report ​from Cornwall Insight and Complete Strategy.

Octopus Energy has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Shell to receive green energy from the “world’s largest offshore wind farm”, it said.

Ofgem has unveiled 26 strategic electricity transmission reinforcements in a bid to unlock wind deployments by 2030.

Regen, on behalf of six trade bodies, has called on the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Secretary Grant Shapps to address network constraints with many facing connectivity delays of up to 15 years.

The UK government has allocated a total of £102 million to support both nuclear and hydrogen innovation in a bid to reduce the UK’s carbon footprint.

Delivering net zero is to be placed as a key priority for the Scottish government as part of the Scottish Budget for 2023 to 2024.