Alban Thurston

The body representing over 300 citizen-controlled green electricity co-ops in England has endorsed the Labour Party’s manifesto on local energy.

Compressed gas storage specialists Highview Power have raised £300 million from investors including Centrica & the UK Infrastructure Bank to build Britain’s first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant.

Pension fund managers Railpen have taken a 50% shareholding in

New research by charge point operator Believ says complex red tape, poor grid access & obstructive planning rules are Britain’s three biggest policy ‘potholes’, throwing needless rocks under the nation’s progress to an EV-driven future.

Multinational drive-chain innovators Danfoss and chums have completed an epic E-convoy led by the firm’s 20 tonne electric lorry, in what the firm calls the world’s biggest electric road trip.

Power suppliers and clean energy backers are among the most optimistic market players in believing private capital will respond well to new premier Kier Starmer’s ambitions to expand clean energy in Britain. A survey of nearly 380 senior figures in UK energy, conducted by law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, finds that more than half believe […]

The ever-expanding software platform underpinning Octopus Energy, Britain’s biggest power retailer, is launching what it calls Britain’s first superhub for digital energy technology. Manchester will be its home.

Around 300 Siemens Gamesa workers in the firm’s Hull wind turbine factory are being balloted for strike action over pay, the UK’s biggest union Unite said today. The union said its members, who construct 108 metre long wind turbine blades by hand, are angry at a 4.5 per cent pay offer, plus an opaque incentive […]

Energy secretary Ed Miliband has given the government’s consent for the construction of three nationally-significant solar farms in the east of England. Low Carbon’s Gate Burton in Lincolnshire, Sunnica on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border and Mallard Pass, straddling the East Coast Mainline railway in Lincolnshire and Rutland, all received consent on Friday. The capacities of Sunnica […]

British solar heat & power firm Naked Energy announced today that it has secured £17 million of new equity to supercharge its global expansion and sales of its solutions designed to decarbonise heat. The investment round was led by E.ON spinoff Energy Infrastructure Solutions (E.ON EIS), a provider of integrated, sustainable energy solutions for cities […]