A giant sand battery can heat an entire city in Finland for a week.
The Technology section is powered by Favbet Tech A pilot plant developed by Polar Night Energy has been operating since 2022, and now an industrial (10 times…
GE Haliade-X is the most powerful offshore wind generator. One such can generate up to 76 GW·h per year, providing energy to 20 thousand households
GE Renewable Energy has announced that its 12MW+ Haliade-X wind turbine has received full type certification for operation up to 14.7MW from DNV (the world’s largest independent…
The first offshore wind farm with a capacity of 480 MW, capable of serving 700,000 users per year, went into operation in France
The wind farm, located off the southwest coast of France, will produce the equivalent of 20% of the Loire-Atlantique department’s annual electricity consumption (that is, enough electricity…
Build a wind farm to make extra cash, landowners urged
Landowners will be encouraged to build a wind farm to make extra revenue as part of the Government’s push for onshore turbine expansion. Energy giant Octopus has…
How we’re being persuaded to love wind farms
The requirement for the UK to adopt a new strategy that reduces our reliance on foreign gas and oil is underscored by the extra – and unwelcome…
Boris Johnson’s energy plan backs big increases in nuclear, wind and solar power
Mr Johnson said: “We’re setting out bold plans to scale up and accelerate affordable, clean and secure energy made in Britain, for Britain – from new nuclear…
Grant Shapps says onshore wind farms an ‘eyesore’ in Cabinet split over expansion
The plans are unpopular with others in the Cabinet, and Mr Shapps told Sky News: “I don’t favour a vast increase in onshore wind farms, for pretty…
Boris Johnson wants to build ‘colossal’ Irish Sea wind farm within a year
Boris Johnson is pushing energy firms to build a “colossal” offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea within 12 months. The Prime Minister told industry leaders he…
Wind farms knock 8pc off house prices
There are currently 135 wind farm sites that have been approved but are awaiting construction. A further 50 are awaiting approval. Several hundred more that were previously…
‘Many players in the renewable industry have yet to put a wind turbine out to sea’
“If somebody is making way too optimistic assumptions or, or just being desperate or eager to get in and paying whatever it takes, that may feel nice…
What having solar panels really means for your wallet
Everything you’ve read about the energy crisis is true: power costs are rocketing, with energy price cap rises adding an average of £700 to annual household bills….
When it’s too windy for wind turbines: the downside of eco-power
Meanwhile, customers are receiving emails from BT, informing them that there will be a nationwide disconnection in 2025 of the Public Switched Telephone Network and, henceforth, all…
Teesside factory serving offshore wind boom to create 2,250 jobs
A maker of parts for wind farms is to build a factory in the North East that will create more than 2,000 jobs, in a boost for…
National Grid bets on surge pricing and electric cars to avoid another energy crisis
Both elements will grow even further as 2050 approaches and more electric cars, heat pumps and hydrogen made from renewable electricity are rolled out. Overall annual electricity…
Brussels sets its sights on British wind power
There have also been moves to strengthen developers’ spending with UK companies. In 2020, industry set a target of 60pc UK content in domestic projects by 2030,…
Trade battle with Brussels looms over wind farm contracts
Earlier this month, developers including BP, SSE and Shell agreed to stump up £700m to the SNP government for rights to build in Scottish waters, as part…
Idealistic politicians are willfully blind to the inconvenient truth about green energy
In June 2011, 18 months before going off to serve Her Majesty in another capacity, former energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne made a remarkable speech…
Lack of wind sparks new fears over green energy revolution
Barely a gust Scientists have identified a pattern of declining average wind speeds globally, averaging about one mile an hour every thirty years, based on wind speeds…
Europe’s biggest battery to be built on Teesside
The biggest battery storage system in Europe is to be built on Teesside in a boost for the UK’s bid to attract international green investment. Singapore-based Sembcorp Industries…
Wind turbine expansion thrown into doubt
In a letter to the Government’s consultation on the statements, Renewable UK, the trade body, said the wording in the policy statements “must be strengthened to reflect…
Britain’s hubristic green commissars can’t see the wood for the trees
The one thing that cheered us Northumbrians up as we waited for power to come back on after Storm Arwen (some wit points out that naming these…