The Welsh Government has launched its first public consultation on a target to deliver 100% of its electricity needs from green energy by 2035 with an extra proposal to target at least 1.5GW of renewable capacity from local sources, excluding heat pumps.
A new poll commissioned by pro-growth campaign group, Britain Remade, showed that 85% of people living in the North East support having onshore wind in their community.
Consumers based in Northern Ireland were able to avoid paying a collective total of £500 million thanks to the nation’s wind farms having provided 42% of electricity for the year.
Cornwall Insight Ireland has released its fourth quarterly All-Island Power market Outlook to 2030 revealing that delays to onshore wind investment decisions have “dashed the hopes of prices dipping below historic levels” in Ireland as predicted in its previous report.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has released the eagerly anticipated Chris Skidmore MP independent review into the UK’s net zero prospects.
While the stretched renewable generation targets are welcome, there needs to be a greater focus on the potential of onshore wind to be rolled out rapidly in the short term, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has stated.
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.
In the fifth edition of our Current± Predicts series, Kaluza's Valts Grintals and Octopus Energy's Rebecca Dibb-Simkin discuss distributed flexibility, EVs and onshore wind.
