Batteries/grid/plastics/regenerative agriculture & focus on long-term storage

3rd May 2024

It would seem that, from this week’s stories, the network companies have been listening to Ed Milliband’s four horsement speach. COMPANY NEWS Microsoft and Brookfield Sign $10-Billion Renewable Power DealThe agreement is for bringing around 10.5 GW of solar and wind power between 2026 and 2030—a capacity that would cost over $10 billion to develop, … Read More

Solar & rooftop solar/Bio-LNG/4-hr BESS/sustainable aviation fuel & focus on Biochar

24th September 2023

COMPANY NEWS Lazard Asset Management takes stake in rooftop solar companyRooftop solar developer and owner Shawton Energy has seen a change in ownership. Iona Capital, the UK low carbon sustainable fund manager, has sold its interest in the company to a fund sponsored by Lazard Asset Management. As a result of the transaction, Lazard’s Sustainable … Read More

Green Steel/Tyre recycling/Concentrated Solar

8th September 2023

Our beloved Government seem to be dropping more balls than Scottish goalkeepers of the 1980’s. It has become so regular that the excuses all sound equally rediculous: “most schools won’t fall down” and “the CfD’s are enabling more projects”. Strewth. COMPANY NEWS H2 Green Steel raises €1.5b for ‘world’s first green steel plant’In the largest … Read More

Smart tariffs/CofE/biodiversity credits/phytoplankton/flywheel & focus on doom loops and tipping points

23rd June 2023

The whole spctrum of the energy transition in one week: Renewables – storage – smart grids – hydrogen planes – ethical investing – biodiversity & carbon credits – air pollution plus more. COMPANY NEWS Adaptogen’s battery fund nets £207m, over-subscribed by 18%Adaptogen Capital said this morning it has attracted £207 million of investors’ pledges to … Read More

Lidar/flexibility/wind/bacteria/hot rocks thermal & focus on the Supreme Court

12th May 2023

Life in the UK can hardly get more exciting: a coronation one weekend, the Eurovision the next! In the spirit of the current weirdly camp national mood I would draw your attention to an entertaining video produced by Vattenfall to promote the only by-product from the manufacture of Green Hydrogen, namely water. They enlist supermodel … Read More