Finance

California’s sun sharing the perfect model for European electricity

March 19, 2018

Aquila Capital launches €750 million energy transition fund

German energy investor Aquila Capital has launched a new fund dedicated to investing in energy infrastructure assets deemed essential to Europe’s energy transition.

March 19, 2018

Solar Power Portal Awards 2018 spotlight: Transaction of the Year

Nominations for the Solar Power Portal and Energy-Storage.News Awards 2018 are now open, and among this year’s brand new categories is our Transaction of the Year award.

February 7, 2018

Will the UK seize opportunities for green energy in 2018?

January 24, 2018

Claimants fail in bid to delay Embedded Benefits changes

A group of claimants have failed in their bid to delay Ofgem’s implementation of drastic changes to Embedded Benefits payments.

January 19, 2018

Tepco eyes blockchain insight with Electron investment

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has confirmed it has invested into UK-based blockchain start-up Electron.

January 2, 2018

Clean energy advocates recognised in New Year’s honours list

A number of prominent advocates of smarter, low carbon energy have been recognised in the 2018 New Year’s honours list.

November 22, 2017

No plan, no protections, no guarantees: PAC slams government over Hinkley Point C errors

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has this morning slammed the government over its handling of the Hinkley Point C contract, identifying a catalogue of errors that it said could see consumers footing the bill.

November 7, 2017

‘Don’t put all your eggs in the frequency response basket,’ National Grid warns storage developers

National Grid has issued a warning to battery storage developers that it would expect them not to rely solely on grid balancing markets for revenue.

October 26, 2017

Quantifying the UK’s energy storage ‘world of opportunity’

October 11, 2017

Innogy buys Statkraft out of CfD-backed offshore wind farm

German clean energy firm innogy has bought Statkraft out of the 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm just weeks after it landed Contracts for Difference support.