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• Irish government approves private wires bill

  16-12-2025 17:15 via renews.biz
  Irish government approves private wires bill
  
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• European Energy celebrates 1.2GW off-take rush

  16-12-2025 17:02 via renews.biz
  European Energy celebrates 1.2GW off-take rush
  
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• SSE gives green light for 100MW Irish battery

  16-12-2025 16:49 via renews.biz
  SSE gives green light for 100MW Irish battery
  
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• SP Energy Networks trials wind grid restart

  16-12-2025 16:39 via renews.biz
  SP Energy Networks trials wind grid restart
  
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• That’s a wrap! Tortilla restaurant cleans up plastic waste

  16-12-2025 16:30 via energylivenews.com
  Mexican food chain Tortilla has announced a major sustainability move that will remove tonnes of plastic waste from its upply chain. The restaurant group is rolling out a new wrapping system across all 74 of its UK sites.Through a partnership with UK manufacturer Prowrap, Tortilla will adopt the Speedwrap Pro 300 dispenser in every restaurant.
  The change will cut more than 1,200kg of CO₂ emissions each year from manufacturing, transport and materials.The biggest impact comes from eliminat
  
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• ib vogt sells Baobab Solar

  16-12-2025 16:24 via renews.biz
  ib vogt sells Baobab Solar
  
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• Underground tunnels for London’s grid power up

  16-12-2025 15:30 via energylivenews.com
  London’s electricity backbone has just been strengthened deep underground.Power is now flowing through the first of two new high-voltage circuits linking National Grid’s New Cross substation in Southwark to Hurst in Bexley as part of the £1 billion London Power Tunnels 2 project.The newly energised circuit runs for 18km beneath South London through tunnels up to 50 metres deep replacing ageing infrastructure that has quietly kept the capital powered since the 1960s.It marks a
  
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• Electricity generation costs would be a third lower with 82% renewable grid, CSIRO says

  16-12-2025 15:00
  Modelling suggests by 2050 main electricity market could run almost entirely on renewables without increase in generation costGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe cost of generating electricity in an Australian grid powered by 82% renewable energy would be a third cheaper than current wholesale electricity costs, according to new CSIRO analysis.The organisation has for the first time modelled the likely cost of electricity generation from different combinations of techn
  
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• Climate change link with wildfires

  16-12-2025 14:30 via energylivenews.com
  Climate change is no longer a background factor in US wildfires. It is now the main driver.A major new Harvard study finds that rising temperatures and drying landscapes caused by climate change are responsible for the majority of wildfire damage and smoke across the western United States over the past three decades.Researchers conclude that climate change accounts for between 60% and 82% of the total area burned in western US forests since the early 1990s.
  In California the figure is around 33
  
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• New seal movement maps to transform offshore marine development

  16-12-2025 13:30 via energylivenews.com
  A major international research project led by the University of St Andrews has produced the most detailed maps ever created of grey and harbour seal movements across Northwest Europe, offering crucial evidence for sustainable offshore development.
  The study, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, brings together GPS data from more than 840 seals tracked across seven countries, alongside extensive counts of seals hauled out on land, to generate high-resolution at-sea density maps.The findi
  
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• Labour backs British EV supply chain with £2.5bn

  16-12-2025 12:30 via energylivenews.com
  Britain is betting big on electric vehicles by backing the factories, kit and supply chains that actually make them.The Government’s new DRIVE35 programme sets out a £2.5bn plan to anchor EV manufacturing in the UK, focusing less on shiny end products and more on the hard industrial plumbing underneath.At its core, DRIVE35 is about rebuilding the UK’s automotive supply chain for a zero-emission era, from batteries and power electronics to motors, software and advanced material
  
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• Work Christmas parties waste 1.5 million kg of food

  16-12-2025 11:30 via energylivenews.com
  Staff Christmas parties across the UK are generating more than 1.5 million kg of food waste each year, according to new analysis by BusinessWaste.co.uk. That is roughly equivalent to the weight of 1,500 small cars.On average, each company party produces 14.26kg of wasted food. When applied across an estimated 1,416,855 UK businesses, total waste reaches 1,506,847kg annually.The financial cost is equally striking. Businesses lose an average of £1,097 each year to food wasted at Christmas e
  
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• JV boosts seabed data services for offshore wind

  16-12-2025 10:38 via renews.biz
  JV boosts seabed data services for offshore wind
  
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• €18.9b Irish grid investment planned

  16-12-2025 10:35 via renews.biz
  €18.9b Irish grid investment planned
  
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• Morrisons delays net zero by 15 years

  16-12-2025 10:30 via energylivenews.com
  Morrisons has pushed back its net zero target by 15 years.The retailer is resetting its climate timetable while toughening up interim cuts across its business.
  This means it pledges it will now reach net zero across its full value chain by 2050 not 2035.The revised targets have been formally approved by the Science Based Targets initiative and cover the entire footprint including agriculture land use and supply chains where almost all emissions sit. Morrisons says the reset reflects the scale o
  
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• Sonnedix wins 805MW in Italian auctions

  16-12-2025 10:23 via renews.biz
  Sonnedix wins 805MW in Italian auctions
  
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• Star of the South files EIA paperwork

  16-12-2025 09:58 via renews.biz
  Star of the South files EIA paperwork
  
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• Statkraft and Fortescue extend Holmaneset PPA

  16-12-2025 09:40 via renews.biz
  Statkraft and Fortescue extend Holmaneset PPA
  
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• Scrap 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars says Badenoch

  16-12-2025 09:30 via energylivenews.com
  Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives would scrap the ban on new petrol and diesel cars if they win the next election.The Tory leader said the policy is economically damaging and strategically naïve.
  Writing in the Sunday Telegraph she said the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate was a “well-meaning but ultimately destructive piece of legislation”.Under current plans all new cars sold from 2030 must be electric or hybrid as part of the legally binding net zero target for 2050.
  Mrs
  
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• TotalEnergies inks Google Malaysia solar PPA

  16-12-2025 09:21 via renews.biz
  TotalEnergies inks Google Malaysia solar PPA
  
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• Vestas scores 277MW Finland hat-trick

  16-12-2025 09:13 via renews.biz
  Vestas scores 277MW Finland hat-trick
  
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