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  • First stage of 429MW wind farm secures funding

    First stage of 429MW wind farm secures funding Dec 29, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Infrastructure Generation, Low Carbon, Markets Finance 0 Image: Shutterstock The first stage of a 429MW wind farm in Australia has secured funding. A consortium of large energy users, including ANZ, Coca-Cola Amatil, Telstra and the University of Melbourne, entered into new power […]

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  • New energy supplier enters orbit

    New energy supplier enters orbit Dec 29, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Markets Finance 0 Image: Shutterstock A new entrant to the UK’s gas and electricity retail market has begun to sign up customers. Orbit Energy says it offers an affordable electricity and gas supply service throughout the country, as well as a convenient service allowing customers […]

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  • Alaskan microgrids ‘cutting costs and boosting resilience’

    Alaskan microgrids ‘cutting costs and boosting resilience’ Dec 28, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Infrastructure Generation 0 Image: Shutterstock Remote villages in Alaska are proving how renewable microgrids can cut costs and boost resilience. That’s according to a new report from researchers at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, which says the region’s terrain makes it […]

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  • Renewables ‘provide a third of German power’

    Renewables ‘provide a third of German power’ Dec 28, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Infrastructure Generation, Low Carbon 0 Image: Shutterstock Renewable energy provided a third of Germany’s electricity this year. That’s according to the Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), which has published its preliminary calculations for 2017. Clean power’s proportion of the mix, up […]

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  • Tesla’s battery down under successfully prevents outage

    Tesla’s battery down under successfully prevents outage Dec 27, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Infrastructure Generation, Low Carbon, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock Tesla’s recently installed backup battery unit in South Australia has already prevented an outage by providing 100MW of power to the grid in just 140 milliseconds. It restored power following an outage caused by […]

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  • US woman hit with shocking $284 billion energy bill

    US woman hit with shocking $284 billion energy bill Dec 27, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Markets Finance 0 Image: Thinkstock Feel like you’re overpaying on energy bills? How about Mary Horomanski from Erie, Pennsylvania, who was hit with an electricity charge of more than $284 billion (£212bn). Luckily for her the bill was a mistake but […]

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  • Finnish energy firm to deliver 60MW plant in West Africa

    Finnish energy firm to deliver 60MW plant in West Africa Dec 26, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Infrastructure Generation, Top Stories 0 Image: Thinkstock A Finnish energy firm is to deliver a 60MW power plant in West Africa. Wärtsilä’s project aims to provide electricity for the second phase of the Tasiast Mine expansion, taking place in Mauritania, […]

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  • Glasgow powers towards 2023 grid upgrades

    Glasgow powers towards 2023 grid upgrades Dec 26, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Infrastructure Generation, Markets Finance, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock The first phase of a £100 million investment project to upgrade Glasgow’s electricity supply is on track to be completed by 2023. That’s according to SP Energy Networks (SPEN), the firm which owns and maintains […]

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  • UK ‘needs a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles’

    UK ‘needs a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles’ Dec 22, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Sustainability Environment, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock The UK needs to introduce a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles to boost the recycling rate to 90%. That’s according to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), which has called on the government to […]

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  • Battery specialist receives €55m funding for clean mobility

    Battery specialist receives €55m funding for clean mobility Dec 25, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Low Carbon, Markets Finance, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock A French battery specialist has received €55 million (£48.7m) of financing to scale up its development of clean mobility solutions. Foresee Power expects the funding, which it received from the European Investment Bank, […]

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