SMEs – businesses with up to 250 employees and turnover under £50m – are essential yet largely neglected actors in the UK’s energy transition. A new report co-authored by Dr Sam Hampton, Acting Energy Programme Deputy Lead at the ECI, sets out policy recommendations to transform SM...
Sources of renewable energy should be more widely adopted in the near term instead of focusing on small modular reactors (SMRs), a new report has found.
Read this article in The Conversation on how extreme weather affects both the energy sector and the insurance sector in different ways.
Mengjiang Lin, Cooperative Award in Science and Engineering student, explains how her EPSRC ICASE project could improve energy storage materials to support the green energy transition.
Funding will be used to develop innovative battery manufacturing, demonstration, scale-up and recycling projects. Small and medium sized (SME) battery developers from across the UK are to benefit from £1.5 million in funding from the Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC), delivered by Innovate UK.
Development of the world’s most advanced wind turbine blade and drive train testing assets set to deliver major boost to UK growth from offshore wind. Ambitious plans to keep the UK at the forefront of technology development in offshore wind were given the green light on 14 May 2024.
The Xlinks Morocco-UK power project has taken a further step forward with public consultation for the Development Consent Order for two independent HVDC landing stations and refreshed high voltage connections to the transmission grid. The statutory public consultation is open until Thursday 27 Ju...
UK government consultation | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
There has been a dramatic fall in failures of stationary battery energy storage over the past 5 years. Analysis, based on EPRI’s Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Failure Incident Database, suggest that “the overall rate of incidents has sharply decreased, as lessons learned from early fa...