Plans for a large Nottinghamshire solar farm see daylight
INITIAL plans for a subsidy-free solar farm that could power the equivalent of 12,200 homes a year in Nottinghamshire are raising concerns among local...
Scale-up of solar and wind puts existing coal and gas at risk, says Bloomberg
SOLAR and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build generation for at least two-thirds of the global population, according to BloombergNEF.
Those two-thirds...
AMPLY power receives cash boost to ramp up commercial electric vehicle fleet charging
AS CITIES and corporations accelerate their adoption of electric trucks and buses, AMPLY Power has secured $13.2 million in Series A funding from investors,...
Oxford announces commitment to fossil fuel divestment
OXFORD University has announced plans to divest formally from the fossil fuel industry.
As well as divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies, the University...
Alok Sharma pays tribute to the energy sector in an open letter
THE SECRETARY of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma has thanked the energy industry for their efforts to keep the nation...
30,000 jobs could be lost in the offshore oil and gas sector, says OGUK
AN INDUSTRY body for the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry has warned that up to 30,000 jobs could be lost in the sector...
‘Renewables are set to be the only energy source that will grow in 2020’,...
THE COVID-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades, with the drop in demand this year...
Europe’s largest bio-CNG HGV refuelling station now operates at full capacity
A £250,000 boost to Warrington’s gas network has enabled a huge, low-carbon HGV refuelling station – the biggest of its kind in Europe –...
‘The artificial sun’ is set to be switched on at 2025
INTERNATIONAL Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER, or "The Way" in Latin), one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world, is to be switched...
World Food Programme chief warns of ‘hunger pandemic’ in addition to COVID-19 threat
THE WORLD faces “multiple famines of biblical proportions” that could result in 300,000 deaths per day — a “hunger pandemic” in addition to the...
