Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Areas set to benefit from the near-£200m funding announced today are: Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Portsmouth, Blackpool, Nottingham, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, South Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, West Midlands, York and West Yorkshire.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Energy firm announces it will not develop new gas fired power at its site in North Yorkshire as it looks to focus on biomass and carbon capture plans. ClientEarth lawyer Sam Hunter-Jones described the decision as "a massive win for the UK and the climate". "In

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Labour Party has been accused of helping biomass energy giant Drax engage in “green spin” by holding a climate event at its upcoming conference sponsored by the North Yorkshire company. They join Drax Group’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Clare Harbord, and Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of industry group Energy UK.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Upcoming Energy Security Strategy expected to include higher targets for offshore and floating wind, alongside new energy efficiency measures. Moreover, the strategy is expected to set out plans to reduce demand for power and heating by increasing the energy efficiency of buildings, sources quoted by the news agency suggested.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Renewable Connections secures green light for 42MW solar and battery farm in eastern Scotland, as RWE touts plans for huge solar project in Yorkshire.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

Leading players in the UK's energy, pensions, and infrastructure sectors have today teamed up to form a new joint venture to ramp up investment in the country's booming offshore wind industry. per cent stake from Global Infrastructure Partners in the 1.2GW Hornsea One wind farm is off the Yorkshire coast.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Completely With Them’.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

New partnership to explore plans to convert a town in Lincolnshire to run on low carbon hydrogen gas. Dan Sadler, Vice President of UK Low Carbon Solutions at Equinor, said the plans had the potential to help further cement the Humber's position as one of the UK's leading clean tech hubs.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Energy company says carbon capture technology partnership is first of its kind in the UK. Drax Group has announced it is to work with Japanese engineering giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on the development of its proposed bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility at its Yorkshire power plant.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Department for Transport today confirmed an additional £56m in public and industry funding is to be made available to deliver up to 2,400 new chargepoints in the near term. The transition to electric vehicles remains one of the most pressing challenges of our generation.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Energy supplier touts tie-up with engineering services company Worley as evidence plan to build UK's largest carbon capture project in Yorkshire is moving ahead. In October, the Cluster was selected by the UK government as a priority project for public industrial decarbonisation funding.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

SSE and Equinor have unveiled plans for a 'clean power hub' near Scunthorpe, comprised of a blue hydrogen-fuelled power station alongside a fossil gas power plant equipped with carbon capture technology, with the energy giants aiming to store the resulting CO2 under the North Sea.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The move would make HGEN the first UK-listed investment company decicated to investing in both public and private hydrogen and hydrogen-focused assets. Simon Hogan, chairman of HGEN, said the new fund was "the first of a kind". We have established HydrogenOne to fill that gap.".

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

A notable omission from the shortlist is Drax's proposed bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project, which aims to significantly reduce the climate impact of the UK's largest power plant. Kintore will be a flagship project for Statera.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

The government said the Investment Zones, which build on plans first touted in the Autumn Statement last year, marked a "pioneering new approach to accelerate research and development in the UK's most budding industries", including the green economy and clean technologies. Cutting-edge innovation starts at a local level," she said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Tie-up between automaker and National Parks UK commits carmaker to funding nature restoration, biodiversity, and wellbeing projects. The first recharging stations are already being installed under the partnership in the Lake District, the UK's most frequented National Park. Octopus Energy already supplies all of Be.EV

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Starmer said the 'Green Prosperity Plan' could combat the "vicious cycle of stagnation" and soaring energy bills that have been allowed to take hold of the UK economy under the Conservative government. But the war didn't ban onshore wind, the war didn't scrap home insulation, and the war didn't stall British nuclear energy.".

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Drax's plan to expand Cruachan will strengthen the UK's energy security by enabling more homegrown renewable electricity to come online to power homes and businesses across the country, helping to end our reliance on imports and cut costs," said Ian Kinnaird, Scottish assets director at the company.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

A group of leading Conservative backbench MPs has today published a wide-ranging new report exploring how the UK could tackle the 'energy trilemma' and deliver decarbonisation, energy security, and lower bills. There is potential to revitalise UK manufacturing to support the growing supply chain in pursuing UK energy sovereignty.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

Speaking yesterday, Johnson acknowledged that soaring energy bills mean the UK faces a tough period "through to next year", but he again expressed confidence that his successor would "provide a further package of support for helping people with the cost of energy". But we're going to get through it.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The near term outlook may be distressingly bleak, but there remains both bright spots in the UK economy and a credible route to long term future growth, all thanks to the net zero transition. per cent of the total - to the wider UK economy. As ECIU director Peter Chalkley argued, the UK's net zero economy is now impossible to ignore.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Leggett started the venture during the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in part by using some of his proceeds from the sale of Solarcentury - the pioneering UK solar developer he established in 1998 - to Statkraft in a £117.7m In related news, the UK government yesterday announced an additional £4.4m deal in 2020.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The good news is that clean electrification and hydrogen often provide a cheaper solution. Nigel Topping, the UK's High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, said the ETC's report illustrated the need to "reprioritise sustainable biomass use to those sectors with limited decarbonisation options".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The government's promised Biomass Strategy in 2022 is a golden opportunity to cement the pivotal tole of biomass in the UK's net zero journey, writes REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska. Do you know what the UK's number one source of renewable energy is? That's 5-15 per cent of the UK's annual emissions in 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. As gas is a globally priced commodity, Europe and the UK are facing severe impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Over the past two years, the Energy and Utilities Association (EUA) has paid a public affairs firm to generate hundreds of articles and interviews to lobby the UK government on energy policy. Broadcast media has amplified similar messages on BBC 2’s Newsnight , LBC , TalkTV and GB News. Foster is quoted in 90 percent of this coverage.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 7, 2024

Mooted project in West Yorkshire could cause ‘heartbreaking’ disruption for wildlife and harm local tourist industry, say critics “Heathcliff! It’s not quite what Kate Bush had in mind, and probably not what Emily Brontë imagined when she wandered the bleak West Yorkshire moors and created Wuthering Heights.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 18, 2023

CeraPhi Energy is a UK-based global geothermal technology company that specialized in the repurposing of end-of-life oil and gas wells for geothermal energy production. The company recently announced the start of the testing phase at the demonstrator project in North Yorkshire, UK.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 18, 2024

Climate groups and MPs criticise proposals for consumers to foot bill to support biomass plant after existing scheme ends in 2027 The government has proposed plans to offer the Drax power plant extra subsidies to burn trees for electricity, provoking a backlash from climate groups and green Tory MPs.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Also on the radar are a $15 million Series A funding round in the US for autonomous inspection tech of power lines and utility assets, as well as an ‘innovative’ financing package for the Lakeside battery system in the UK, with backers such as Tesla leading the way. But what do you think? Let me know.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Energy giant says half a century of coal-fired power generation will come to an end at its North Yorkshire plant in March 2021, well ahead of the government's deadline. As part of its earning statement this morning, Drax announced it is now planning to cease using coal at its Selby power station in North Yorkshire in March 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The latest donation shows the company continues to exert influence across a broad political spectrum – including the Labour party, whose ‘Green New Deal’ sets out to decarbonise the UK by 2030. It is awaiting a decision on an estimated £31.7 Labour did not respond to DeSmog’s request for a comment.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former UK energy and climate minister Claire O’Neill’s World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is running a series of events at the conference on private sector efforts to tackle climate change. Campaigners said the news demonstrated a “classic case of the revolving door” between “big polluters” and governments.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

British biomass giant Drax is lobbying the Californian government to play host to its first ever “carbon negative” power plant outside of the UK, despite concerns about the sustainability of the energy source. Drax currently has wood pellet processing mills in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, which source its UK power station.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Any new incentives would form part of the government's push to accelerate domestic clean energy generation in a bid to bolster energy security and curb bills, which have been sent soaring by the global gas supply crunch exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The report from the APPG on Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and Hauliers, which was covered by both the Sun and Express , explicitly called on the government to “investigate thoroughly usage of fuel catalysts/additives proven to cut emissions” as an alternative to electric vehicles. MP Responses.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As an example, the researchers point to Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, which was gained by the Conservatives in 2019 with a winning margin of just 1,561 votes. Drilling in the North Sea doesn't shield us from the fact that gas is an international market, currently being driven up by Russia reducing flows.

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