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EDF Energy chosen to take on Solarplicity’s customers
Ofgem has appointed Big Six company EDF Energy to take on the customers of recently collapsed supplier Solarplicity. It comes after the regulator announced the small energy supplier ceased to trade earlier this week. Solarplicity’s 7,500 domestic customers and 500 business customers will be transferred to EDF Energy, which will ensure all outstanding credit balances […]
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New £3.5m fund offered to recycle small waste electricals
A new fund worth £3.5 million has been launched for the reuse and collection of small waste electricals across the UK. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Fund is inviting applications from waste collection authorities and reuse organisations for the funding. Up to £3 million has been allocated for small electrical waste kerbside collection […]
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World’s longest turbine blade arrives for testing in the UK
An offshore wind turbine blade claimed to be the longest in the world has arrived in the UK for testing. LM Wind Power, part of GE Renewables, will put its 107-metre turbine blade through its paces at Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s testing facility in Blyth, Northumberland. The Haliade-X 12MW offshore turbine blade is bigger […]
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Audi e-tron becomes first EV to score maximum safety rating
The 2019 Audi e-tron has become the first electric vehicle (EV) to score the maximum safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The large passenger vehicle managed to earn the 2019 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award by maintaining ‘good’ ratings across six different crash tests while equipped with standard equipment. Introduced this year, the […]
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Ofgem aims for 50% women in its workforce by 2025
Ofgem has made a commitment to ensure 50% of its workforce is female at all levels of the organisation by 2025. It is raising the bar on achieving better gender balance in the energy industry and is calling on businesses to follow suit. The regulator has joined POWERful Women (PfW), a professional initiative launched in […]
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Europe’s land ‘could hold enough wind turbines to power world until 2050’
Europe could produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces if it maximised its land use for onshore wind farms. That’s according to new analysis, which has identified every potentially feasible location of onshore wind energy in the region to highlight how much untapped potential there is that could be explored, […]
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Wind, solar and storage combined in new €35m hybrid energy park
A new €35 million (£32.5m) hybrid energy park consisting of solar panels, wind turbines and battery storage systems is being developed in the Netherlands. Swedish energy giant Vattenfall said the project will have a total capacity of 60MW, enough to deliver renewable energy to around 40,000 Dutch households. The initial stage of the building work […]
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New wind farm in Egypt gets $206m boost
An agreement to provide financing worth $206 million (£171m) in total for the development of a wind farm in Egypt has been confirmed. The 252MW West Bakr Wind project, being developed by Lekela in Egypt’s Red Sea governorate, is expected to produce enough renewable electricity to power around 350,000 homes and reduce more than 550,000 […]
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Energy giant E.ON invests in smart construction start-up
Energy giant E.ON has invested in a start-up company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to visualise construction sites. It has signed a strategic co-operation with German-American company HoloBuilder to further digitise the energy industry, optimising construction processes and simplifying customer communication during the construction phase. E.ON says with its cloud solution, the start-up not only […]
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RE100 members ‘will need to buy an extra 189TWh of clean power by 2030’
Businesses signed up to the RE100 scheme will need to buy an extra 189TWh of clean power by 2030 to hit targets. That’s the forecast made in new research published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), which suggests companies signed up to the corporate leadership initiative, which aims to drive a shift to 100% renewable […]
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