02 May 2018
Northumbrian Water has signed a green deal with Orsted to power all 1,858 of its sites using renewable electricity for the next four years. The deal is worth more than £100 million and builds on the company’s existing sustainability commitments including using 100 per cent of its sewage sludge to create energy through advanced anaerobic […]
16 Apr 2018
Isle of Canna residents to ditch diesel electricity generators in favour of community-owned solar, wind, and battery storage system Fossil Free islands Island economies good test beds for renewable and community based power generation Residents of the Isle of Canna off the west coast of Scotland have secured £1.3m to largely ditch their diesel power […]
23 Mar 2018
‘The Carbon Trust today announced the launch of BLUE PILOT, a large-scale demonstration project aimed at reducing costs and underwater noise during construction of offshore wind farms as part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA). The BLUE PILOT project will deploy The BLUE Hammer, a new type of pile driver developed by Fistuca BV., a Dutch […]
12 Mar 2018
High operating efficiencies combined with the major benefit of greater flexibility on location could be big advantages for floating offshore wind. The world’s first commercial floating offshore wind farm, called Hywind, started sending electricity to the grid last October. Since then, the six-turbine, 30MW installation has been working well. Really well. In fact, Hywind has had […]
29 Jan 2018
Offshore construction has now begun at what will become the world’s biggest windfarm, Hornsea Project One Orstead: ‘A total of 174 monopiles have been installed at the site, located 120km off the Yorkshire coast. When operational, expected in 2020, the wind farm which is being developed by Ørsted, will produce enough power for well over […]
07 Jan 2018
Claire Perry eyes further clean growth to build on ‘greenest year ever’ Business Green ‘UK Climate Change Minister says country is doing “even better than we thought” against future carbon budgets, as she talks up plans to create more green jobs Climate Change Minister Claire Perry has hailed 2017 as “a real UK success story” […]
07 Jan 2018
Is this the future? Dutch plan vast windfarm island in North Sea The Guardian: Advanced plans by Dutch power grid aims to build power hub possibly at Dogger Bank whose scale would dwarf current offshore sites. Britain’s homes could be lit and powered by windfarms surrounding an artificial island deep out in the North Sea, […]
12 Nov 2017
Access to funding, a coherent long-term strategy and greater collaboration are required make wave power work for the UK, says a new report. Hayley Dunning Wave energy could contribute significantly to the UK’s future energy mix, but only if the mistakes of the past are not repeated, say Imperial College London and Strathclyde University researchers […]
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