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  • UK is eighth most attractive location for renewables investment

    The unveiling of the Offshore Wind Deal earlier this year has helped the UK to retain eighth place in accountancy firm EY’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI). The UK Government wants 30GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030, up from 8.2GW at the end of last year. Ben Warren, EY Global Power & Utilities Corporate Finance Leader and RECAI Chief Editor, said: “While the Offshore Wind Deal is extremely positive news for the UK renewables sector and will help to attract signif...

    21 05 2019

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    News article - 21 May 2019

  • Independent Renewable Investment Tops £3bn

    After the launch of our 2019 Energy Entrepreneurs Report this week, in the first of a three-part series, Chief Commercial Officer, Dave Cockshott explores the findings for the renewables sector, as well as what the future holds for project developers. The expansion of the independent renewable energy generation sector over the past seven years has been truly remarkable. Back in 2012, there was only 4.7GW of capacity contributing to Great Britain’s decarbonisation efforts, but now that figure ha...

    17 05 2019

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    Blog - 17 May 2019

  • Network charging reforms ‘could hit subsidy-free progress’

    The deployment of subsidy-free renewables could be pushed back by up to five years if Ofgem presses ahead with its Targeted Charging Review, according to a new report. Aurora Energy Research said the proposed changes under the review, under which the regulator is looking to spread the cost of network infrastructure via fixed charges instead of the current system relating to electricity consumption, would damage onshore wind and solar. Aurora said under its estimates deployment of solar would b...

    14 05 2019

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    News article - 14 May 2019

  • Public support for onshore wind rises

    A record number of people support the use of onshore wind power, according to the latest UK Government survey. The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS’s) Public Attitudes Tracker showed 79% of people supported onshore wind, beating the previous record of 76% set in April 2018. A record high of 80% are also concerned about climate change. Trade body RenewableUK pointed out that onshore wind farms were still excluded by ministers from bidding for Contracts for Diff...

    14 05 2019

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    News article - 14 May 2019

  • UK urged to quadruple clean energy

    The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has advised the UK Government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 with a raft of measures including quadrupling the country’s use of low-carbon energy. The official advisory body said the target could be reached using existing technologies, but that it needed legislation “without delay” and clear government policies, with current policies insufficient to even hit existing targets. Electric vehicles should be the only cars sold by 2035, t...

    07 05 2019

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    News article - 7 May 2019

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