DRS/UK Net Zero Review/vanadium flow batteries & focus on long term energy storage

25th January 2023

Re-reading this week’s ‘bits, it occurs to me that if the Government were to implement enough of the recommendations of Chris Skidmore’s review, we would be a lot less likely to suffer disasters such as British Volt. COMPANY NEWS Lightsource bp closes first tax equity deal with Wells Fargo for 481 megawatt solar portfolioLightsource bp … Read More

vertical farms/biomethane/IPCC/redox flow batteries

4th March 2022

Company news Green Investment Group launches specialist offshore wind divisionCorio Generation will commence operations next month with a project pipeline of more than 15 gigawatts (GW), one of the largest in the world.A GIG portfolio company, operating on a standalone basis, Corio will take projects from origination, through development and construction, and into operations.It will … Read More

Community solar/EV’s/living buildings & focus on Scope 3 Emissions

14th February 2020

The UK game of musical chairs continues: Welcome, Alok Sharma to the role/hot seat of Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as well as Minister for COP26 climate summit. He will have his work cut out. He comes from the Department of International Affairs, but has few obvious green credentials. According … Read More

Grid stability / cement / plastic recycling / flow battery & focus on Concetrated Solar Power

31st January 2020

Theme for this week is how the energy transition juxtaposes traditional connections: jet fuel made from water, roads and schools made from plastics, even American muscle cars turning into electric SUV’s Company news Ørsted posts bumper earnings, eyes hydrogen investments Ørsted earnings for 2019 “exceeded expectations” with operating profit up 17 per cent to £1.99bn … Read More

Gas-for-electricity / Turbine towers / CofE / Shale / Flow-batteries

29th November 2019

It is COP25 time. Not sure whether to be optimistic or otherwise this time. On the one hand the topic of Climate Change is front and centre in the news, but on the other, that news is ever more alarming. Pull together time… Company news…. Mitsubishi to buy Eneco as energy management push advances Mitsubishi … Read More