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There is no shortage of people interested in working in the kinds of fields that will be crucial to deliver the UK’s energy transition, but industry must do more to bring young people into the sector to ensure the country can fill its green skills gap. This was a conclusion drawn by speakers on a […]
Chargepoint operator (CPO) Fastned has announced that it has opened a new EV charging hub near Newcastle. The hub, located in Houghton-le-Spring, features eight 300kW combined charging system (CCS) high-speed charging bays which can provide an EV with up to 300 miles of charge in as little as twenty minutes. The site, which is powered […]
The UK is an attractive space for renewable energy investors, but the investment landscape would be de-risked by greater policy support. These were some of the key conclusions drawn by speakers at the first panel of this morning’s Clean Power 2030 Summits event, hosted by Solar Media in London. The first panel at the Clean […]
Ex-Tesla CTO’s battery recycling and materials company Redwood Materials has launched a new business unit to repurpose second-life EV batteries for energy storage. Redwood Materials, launched by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, through its new offering, Redwood Energy, has entered into a strategic partnership with Crusoe, a vertically-integrated AI infrastructure provider, to develop a microgrid […]
Just a few days away from the Clean Power 2030 Summits, Monika Paplaczyk, chief investment officer at Thrive Renewables spoke to PV Tech Premium calling 2024 “a transformational year in terms of energy policy”. Paplaczyk will speak twice on day two of the Wind Finance and Investment Summit, which this year is co-located with the UK […]
Power Initiatives check out the World Hydrogen Congress in October 2022 The furore over hydrogen is building speed and just how important it will become in the future fuel mix for the UK and across the world is in its infancy, with the spectrum of hydrogen production available and its ultimate usage still in debate. […]
Secured Planning Consent Power Initiatives has secured planning consent on a 35MW battery storage plant in Rotherham. This approval follows the 25MW battery storage plant consent awarded by Torbay Council in early September. Adding to recent awards in Preston and Bridgend, respectively. Eight weeks from validation Rotherham Council granted the planning application in late September, […]
Timely News For Grid Connections National Grid ESO has issued exciting and timely news to tackle the bottleneck of the connections to the transmission grid. We highlighted this last month in our support for the open letter given by Regen to Nick Winser. Power Initiatives has over 200MW in pre-construction stage currently, with some grid connection […]
Preparations As National Grid prepare ahead of 2022’s network assurance exercise this year and consumers reel at the price hikes that will hit their energy bills in the foreboding winter ahead; the Development Platform that Power Initiatives have recently launched will play a significant role in the coming years in keeping the lights on across […]
Full Support Power Initiatives would like to add our full support to REGEN’s open letter to Nick Winser, the new Electricity Networks Minister, where they outlined the issues affecting power generation projects and the delays in getting connections to the grid. Regen is a not-for-profit centre of energy expertise and market insight whose mission is […]
