Report from: GOV.UK The UK Minister for Energy and Climate Graham Stuart has today signed a landmark agreement on renewable energy cooperation with EU and North Seas countries. The agreement between the UK and the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) sets the framework for greater cooperation with North Seas neighbours. Collaboration on development of offshore renewable energy…
Report from: SKY NEWS The UK is gambling on wind in the future of renewables - but as we're seeing, having the turbines doesn't make them turn. Britain is in the middle of a wind drought - and the timing couldn't have been worse. For several days now, the UK and western Europe have been calm,…
Report from: SKY NEWS The belief that going green will be expensive is "just wrong", according to experts, who have found that wind and solar energy, and battery storage, had become cheaper than previously predicted. A rapid global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050 would save the world at least £10trn, according…
Report from: Sky News Scotland's biggest offshore windfarm, Seagreen, has started generating electricity, its operators have confirmed. The North Sea site will be the world's deepest fixed-bottom wind farm and is expected to have 114 turbines producing electricity by July 2023. Standing 16 miles off the Angus coastline, the first turbine powered up on Monday…
Report from - GOV.UK Fourth round of Contracts for Difference scheme secures almost 11GW of clean energy - enough to power around 12 million homes. A record amount of renewable energy has today (7 July 2022) been secured through the biggest ever round of the UK government’s flagship auction scheme. The fourth round of the…
Report from - Energy Live News The Swedish site will power 300k homes with green electricity The Nysäter wind farm has opened in Sweden, with 114 turbines and a capacity of 475MW – the new site becomes one of the largest on the continent. RWE Renewables will operate the facility, which is estimated to produce…
Following a new report from Drax Electric Insights, it has been reported that fossil fuels have been overtaken by the total capacity available from renewables for the first time. Fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) were peaking above 60 GW of fossil capacity during the years between 2010 to 2012 at the start of this…
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