Tim McManan-Smith

Power Purchase Agreements provide financial certainty to you and the project developer, which removes a significant roadblock to building new renewable facilities. What are the challenges, and what are the emerging opportunities to lock in clean power? And crucially, how do PPAs within a wider net zero context?

Join us and transform your utility management journey at Buying and Using Utilities Live, The Major Energy Users (MEUC’s) Spring Conference and Exhibition, taking place on 25th April at IET Savoy Place, London.

Price, value and quality are the three most important factors when UK businesses are considering an electrification partner, according to the latest research from Drax. But what’s the story behind the headline?

Energy claims specialist has helped recover thousands of pounds for a small amusement arcade business, after leading energy supplier Engie was found liable in a legal case.

When researching the status of electrification progress for UK organisations, Drax asked respondents about the information they were basing decisions on. Their findings suggested that valuable information’s in short supply and that organisations are keen to allow others to test the water before taking the electrification plunge themselves.

Sustainable Ventures, Europe’s largest climate tech hub, has been chosen to deliver a government-backed hydrogen revolution in Manchester. A partnership with CPI – an independent technology innovation catalyst – will help innovative hydrogen startups scale over 12 to 18 months using £1.5 million of private investment. Sustainable Ventures will find customers for the startups and […]

Conrad Energy is pleased to announce that it has successfully closed the greenfield financing of its two Pathfinder synchronous condenser projects located in the East of England. The company is owned by I Squared Capital, a global energy infrastructure investor with over $38bn of assets under management. The company’s adviser, Nomura Greentech, launched the financing […]

GridBeyond, the leading intelligent energy and smart grid platform provider for distributed energy resource management, has closed its €52M Series C financing round. The round was led by Alantra’s Energy Transition Fund, Klima.

Battery storage developer Harmony Energy has received credit facility of up to £10m from sustainable bank, Triodos, to support the development of new projects and its expansion across Europe.

Zeigo Power and King’s College London recently participated in a webinar hosted by The Energyst titled “What makes a successful PPA?”. The webinar aimed to provide insights into what makes a successful PPA and how to de-mystify PPAs, making them simple and accessible. The webinar featured Mark Chappell, Senior PPA Manager at Zeigo Power, Russell Reading, Head of Decarbonisation and Energy Markets at Zeigo Power, and Julie Allen, Heat Decarbonisation Programme Lead at King’s College London, who provided their experience of PPAs from an end-user perspective.