21st May 2019 | Commercial Energy
The power generation market is awash with misconceptions. Not least of which, is the misconception about who “invented” electricity – noting of course that electricity is a form of energy and it occurs in nature, so technically it was never “invented” but more accurately it was “discovered”. Some give credit to Benjamin Franklin’s experiments of…Read more
16th May 2019 | Commercial Energy
Labour has fleshed out is plans to renationalise the UK’s energy networks should it get into power, saying it will help to decarbonise British electricity. Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey will say the utilities company should be taken out of the hands of private shareholders and transformed through a “green industrial revolution”. The Government would…Read more
15th May 2019 | Commercial Energy
The UK has maintained its top-ten position in a ranking of the world’s most attractive renewable energy markets for investors, largely due to the Government’s recent assertation that offshore wind power will provide a third of the nation’s electricity by 2030. Published today (15 May), the latest edition of consultancy EY’s bi-annual Renewable Energy Country…Read more
8th May 2019 | Commercial Energy
Britain’s electricity grid has gone a full week without coal for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. The new record – the first coal-free week since use of the fossil fuel for electricity began in the 19th Century – was set at 1.24pm on Wednesday, a week after the last generator came off the…Read more
7th May 2019 | Commercial Energy
The UK’s national grid could be powered by 100% zero-carbon electricity as early as 2025, according to the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO). In a new report published earlier this month, the ESO claimed that it could enjoy periods of zero-carbon power as long as there was sufficient renewable energy to meet demand. Of…Read more