Looking at the selections this week, two kinds of innovation are featured: First are the “out of the box thinking” type such as the burying of biomass and the fracking energy storage. The second is the Government sponsoring the long term ambitions of the fusion industry, and trying to pick winners. COMPANY NEWS AstraZeneca Partners … Read More
COMPANY NEWS E.ON issues €1.5bn green bond packageE.ON has not disclosed how oversubscribed the bonds were, but chief financial officer Marc Spieker said there was “high demand from investors”.Proceeds from the bonds will be used to support E.ON’s energy transition plans for 2024. The company’s Green Bond Framework outlines projects eligible for support from the … Read More
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist for this one, but I think the UK Government is quietly cutting the environmental protections for industry. The FT spotted that the carbon price in the UK ETS has, since March, diverged noticeably from the EU ETS, which it had tracked ever since its post-Brexit launch. As … Read More
There are a number of countries who are well placed to become major exporters, the UK and Australia are two of them as sories below demonstrate. It is slightly disappointing that neither seem that keen to pick up the baton UK NEWS Sainsbury’s cuts ribbon on ‘most energy-efficient supermarket ever’Sainsbury’s has today officially opened its … Read More
Glad to see the post about the boom in renewables, below. I hope that the UK will join in, although messages are mixed currently. A good example being that we criticise the President of DR Congo for issuing licenses to drill for oil in peatlands and then issue plenty of our own in the North … Read More
One beneficiary of the change in views on energy costs and energy security has been sentiment towards nuclear power. My “focus” today may serve as a reminder that nuclear is a far from perfect solution especially as regards costs Company news 5MW gigastack project awarded £9.3m in UK Government fundingITM Power announced it had won … Read More
I had hoped to help bring some clarity around the brave new world of farming outside of the clutches of the CAP. Unfortunately I suspect that we haven’t got there yet and can only hope that soon all will become clear. Company news Schneider Electric acquires Zeigo PPA platformSchneider Electric has acquired start-up climate-tech platform … Read More
We may be near the end of the curve of falling costs for wind, maybe also solar, but as both are now competitive with the marginal cost of gas, nuclear and coal we are going to have to afind something else to argue about UK news Tesla launches UK-based virtual power plant projectTesla has opened … Read More
