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United Kingdom

UK to Spend £20BN Closing off 2,000 Oil and Gas Wells in Next Decade, Report Says

Offshore Energies UK estimates 200 wells will be decommissioned every year at a cost of £7.8m each

United Kingdom

Shell Reviews £25BN UK Investments Plan Because of Windfall Tax

The government recently extended the money raising measure

Energy Storage System

UK Unveils Europe’s Largest Energy Storage System

Europe’s largest battery energy storage system by megawatts per hour will be officially online from today, marking a new era in power diversification in the UK…

Canada

Canadian Solar Announces Operation of 100 Mwp Solar Project in Japan

Canadian Solar Inc. has announced that its Japan flagship mega-project, the 100 MWp Azuma Kofuji solar project located in the Fukushima Prefecture, recently rea…

Net Zero Emission

First UK Deployment of Pioneering Net Zero Technology in Scotland

WORLD-LEADING decarbonisation technology will be deployed in the UK for the first time as part of a collaboration between climate tech company Levidian and solu…

Smart Grid

Duke Energy and AWS Partner up on Smart Grid Solutions

Duke Energy and Amazon Web Services (AWS), are entering a multiyear strategic collaboration to accelerate the utility’s development of smart grid solutions, in…

Carbon Emissions

UK Sets Out Carbon Capture Plan

The UK government has published the UK’s first official CCUS framework that is expected to provide technical information to three major projects.

Offshore Wind Power

Nine New Countries Sign Up for Global Offshore Wind Alliance at COP27

COP27 has seen nine new countries – including Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and the US – join the Global Offsho…

Natural Gas

‘Vaccination-Style’ Intervention Needed to Solve Energy Crisis, UK Energy Boss Says

The average U.K. household faces paying a £2,500 ($2,900) annual bill for the next two years, up from £1,400 in October 2021.

Electric Car

UK Unveils First Large-Scale Lithium Refinery to Boost EV Supply Chain

The UK’s first large-scale merchant lithium refinery has been announced, providing battery grade materials to bolster the electric vehicle (EV), renewable ener…

Hydrogen Production

COP27: US and Ukraine in Deal for SMRs to Produce Hydrogen and Ammonia

US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, and Ukraine Minister of Energy, German Galushchenko, announced at COP27 in Egypt a Ukraine Clean Fuels fr…

United Kingdom

UK Unboxes £65m Clean Tech Investment at COP27

The new funding aims to make clean technologies accessible and affordable to developing countries.

Crude Oil

UK Considering Big Increase in Energy Windfall Tax, Sources Say

British finance minister Jeremy Hunt is considering a big increase in a windfall tax on oil and gas firms and extending it to power generation firms as he tries…

Crude Oil

UK’s Market-Defying North Sea Oil IPO Falls Flat

After braving high-level market volatility in Britain’s biggest IPO of the year, North Sea oil and gas producer Ithaca Energy warned that any further boost to …

Smart Meter

Flexibility Service Pays UK Smart Meter Homes to Reduce Energy Use

National Grid ESO is running a demand flexibility service this Winter where UK energy consumers with smart meters will be paid to reduce their consumption.