30th May 2018 | Residential Energy
Britain’s second largest energy supplier has joined its rivals in raising bills for almost seven million homes after a winter of wholesale price spikes. The typical dual fuel bill for SSE’s 2.3 million customers on standard energy tariffs will rise by about £76 a year from July. The increase is due to a 5.6 per…Read more
28th May 2018 | Recycling
A “pay-as-you-throw” system for household rubbish should be introduced by 2040, one of the UK’s biggest waste firms has said. Suez said weighing domestic waste with microchip technology in bins would help drive a revolution in recycling. The firm says that all packaging sold in the UK should have to be 50% recycled by 2025….Read more
25th May 2018 | Commercial Energy
Drax Power Station in Yorkshire, UK, will pilot Europe’s first bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project by capturing carbon produced via biomass combustion. Drax generates around 6% of Britain’s electricity and has already converted three of its six units to burn wood pellets instead of coal. A fourth unit will be converted for biomass…Read more
24th May 2018 | Commercial Energy
The government is overlooking the risks of relying on supplies that may not materialize, according to a report by Oxford, England-based Aurora Energy Research Ltd. Electricity on interconnector cables flows to where prices are more expensive, making supplies difficult to predict or control. “The contribution of interconnectors to security of supply is unknown, and, to…Read more
22nd May 2018 | Commercial Energy
Plans were unveiled today to build a world-first 2GW network of grid-scale batteries and rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the UK. Pivot Power is behind the £1.6bn programme, which will provide infrastructure to support the rapid adoption of EVs and underpin clean air policies, while introducing valuable flexibility into the energy system to…Read more
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