The country currently aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 LONDON: Britain will toughen its climate targets and commit to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government said late on Tuesday, becoming the first G7 nation to set such a goal. The country currently aims […]
Britain to launch new scheme to pay households for unused renewable power
LONDON: Britain will launch a new scheme to pay households producing energy from renewable sources, such as solar panels, for their surplus electricity, the government said on Sunday. Around 800,000 homes in Britain have solar panels installed and the scheme will replace a feed-in-tariff system which ended in April. “The new smart export guarantee will […]
ScottishPower’s rush for batteries in bid to make Glasgow the UK’s first net zero city
ScottishPower has revealed intentions to make Glasgow the UK’s first ‘net zero’ city, in collaboration with Glasgow City Council. And the utility is also preparing a battery storage rush in a bid to support its renewable energy ambitions. To achieve net zero emissions, the city will need to decarbonise heat and transport, as well as […]
Glasgow eyes to become Britain’s first carbon-neutral city
Glasgow aims to become the first city in Britain to be carbon-neutral in a drive to tackle climate change. Glasgow City Council, working with Scottish Power, has pledged to make Britain’s third-biggest city the first to reach a “net zero” carbon emissions target and beat a 2045 overall target set out by the Scottish government […]
Britain has just had its first coal-free week since the Industrial Revolution
Britain’s electricity grid has gone for an entire week without burning any coal – a moment which will rapidly become ‘the new normal’, operators said. It’s the first coal-free week since we began burning the fossil fuel for electricity in 1882, the system operator said. The record was set at 1.25pm on Wednesday, exactly a week […]
‘World first’ grid-scale lithium-vanadium hybrid project will be in the UK
Pivot Power will collaborate with manufacture and system integrator redT on what is claimed to be the world’s first grid-scale hybrid battery energy storage project to use a combination of lithium-ion and vanadium technologies. Pivot Power is a relatively new company that has quickly risen to prominence in the UK over the past few months […]
Five things we learned from Energy Storage Summit 2019
Last week’s Energy Storage Summit 2019 saw the great and the good of Europe’s energy storage sector gather at London’s Victoria Plaza for two days of discussion, debate and networking. The Energy-Storage.News, Solar Power Portal and Current± editorial teams were present throughout the event, highlighting give key themes that emerged at a crucial time for the storage sector. Deepening […]