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• NESO grid reforms unlock 132GW for 2030

  08-12-2025 01:01 via renews.biz
  NESO grid reforms unlock 132GW for 2030
  
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• Scotland faces £1 Billion grid bottleneck bill

  12-12-2025 16:00 via energylivenews.com
  Scottish households and businesses are facing soaring grid constraint costs, with new analysis from the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) revealing that Scotland has paid £1.09 billion so far this year. NESO data shows £147 million was spent in November alone, making 2025 on course to be the most expensive year on record.Constraint payments occur when generators are paid to reduce output because the grid cannot transport the electricity to where it is needed.
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• ‘AR7 cash injection would be cost neutral’

  12-12-2025 15:39 via renews.biz
  ‘AR7 cash injection would be cost neutral’
  
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• Social housing unprepared for rising heat as policy lags behind climate risks

  12-12-2025 15:00 via energylivenews.com
  Millions of UK social homes are unprepared for rising temperatures and increasing energy costs, with current housing and climate policies failing to keep up.
  New research from The University of Manchester warns that overheating is becoming a major threat as climate change drives more frequent heatwaves.The study, published in Energy Policy, draws on interviews with 23 housing and construction specialists. It found widespread concern that while heating has long been prioritised, cooling in homes
  
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• Irish wind sector backs CRU policy

  12-12-2025 14:42 via renews.biz
  Irish wind sector backs CRU policy
  
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• Global energy storage system prices hit record low as costs fall 31%

  12-12-2025 14:00 via energylivenews.com
  Energy storage system prices have fallen to their lowest level on record, dropping to a global average of $117/kWh in 2025.
  The new figures come from BloombergNEF’s Energy Storage System Cost Survey 2025, which reports a 31% decrease compared with 2024.BNEF says the decline is driven by continued reductions in lithium-ion battery prices, rising supplier competition and a shift to higher-energy-density cell and container designs.
  These factors are reshaping the economics of utility-scale s
  
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• EU meets 2025 solar goal but market slowdown threatens 2030 target

  12-12-2025 13:01 via energylivenews.com
  The EU has hit its 2025 solar target but a surprise market contraction is now threatening the bloc’s 2030 ambitions.
  New figures show the EU installed 65.1 GW of solar capacity in 2025, a 0.7% decline from the 65.6 GW added in 2024.This marks the first year-on-year drop in installations since 2016. It comes at a time when acceleration is needed to meet the industry’s projected 750 GW target by 2030.Despite the slowdown, the EU surpassed its mid-decade milestone. An estimated 406 GW
  
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• Heerema cuts steel on H-731 barge

  12-12-2025 12:46 via renews.biz
  Heerema cuts steel on H-731 barge
  
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• Statkraft CFO to step down

  12-12-2025 12:05 via renews.biz
  Statkraft CFO to step down
  
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• The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit

  12-12-2025 12:00
  There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have madeToday marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty, one of the landmark days in climate-action history. Attending the conference as a journalist, I watched and listened and wondered whether 194 countries could ever agree on anything at all, and the night before they did, people who I thought were more sophisticated than me assured me they couldn’t. Then they did. There are a lot of ways to tell
  
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• Scottish Government backs 460 new green jobs at Grangemouth

  12-12-2025 12:00 via energylivenews.com
  Up to 460 new jobs are set to be created at the Grangemouth industrial cluster following £8.5 million of Scottish Government funding to accelerate low-carbon innovation.
  The investment is designed to support a just transition for one of Scotland’s key manufacturing hubs while promoting sustainable growth and cutting emissions.MiAlgae will receive £1.5 million to scale its production of fish-free omega-3 made from algae, using whisky byproducts to reduce pressure on marine ecos
  
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• Yes Deer, your footie burger is more sustainable

  12-12-2025 11:00 via energylivenews.com
  Premier League matchday burgers are going wild as top clubs ditch beef in favour of venison to slash carbon emissions.Brentford and Wolves are among the clubs selling venison burgers at their stadiums as part of a push to cut the climate impact of football food.
  The move targets one of catering’s biggest problems with beef carrying one of the highest carbon footprints of any common ingredient.Venison produces a fraction of the emissions of beef and swapping it in stadiums could cut burger
  
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• RWE powers up A44n solar farms

  12-12-2025 10:57 via renews.biz
  RWE powers up A44n solar farms
  
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• Thistle Wind Partners files Ayre offshore plans

  12-12-2025 10:54 via renews.biz
  Thistle Wind Partners files Ayre offshore plans
  
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• Maryland launches offshore wind procurement

  12-12-2025 10:07 via renews.biz
  Maryland launches offshore wind procurement
  
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• Nearly half of Brits ration energy as rising bills hit

  12-12-2025 10:03 via energylivenews.com
  Nearly half of UK households are rationing their energy use this winter as rising bills and wider cost-of-living pressures squeeze budgets.
  New research from MoneySuperMarket Energy shows 49% of households are limiting usage as the Ofgem price cap prepares to rise to £1,758 in January.More than half of respondents said the cost of living has worsened over the past year. Nearly a third have made cutbacks, with 45% delaying turning on their heating compared to last winter.Energy stress is c
  
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• Foresight fund buys flyRen majority stake

  12-12-2025 09:33 via renews.biz
  Foresight fund buys flyRen majority stake
  
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• Jumbo Offshore signs two TP installation deals

  12-12-2025 08:56 via renews.biz
  Jumbo Offshore signs two TP installation deals
  
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• Korea targets 4GW offshore wind by 2030

  12-12-2025 08:54 via renews.biz
  Korea targets 4GW offshore wind by 2030
  
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• Will net zero really cost UK households £500 a year?

  11-12-2025 18:25
  An official report lays out different scenarios for the cost of transitioning away from fossil fuels to net zero by 2050Britain’s official energy system operator has attempted to work out what achieving net zero carbon emissions will cost, with its figures showing surging spending in the coming years.The scale and speed of the shift to a low-carbon economy, and how to fund it, are hotly debated by political parties. Continue reading...
  
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• Reaching net zero: what will it cost the UK and is it a price worth paying?

  11-12-2025 16:32
  An official report says the bill for switching to clean energy will rise sharply – and puts forward a slower, ‘falling behind” alternativeThe cost of hitting net zero targets has been laid bare by the UK’s energy system operator, showing a surge in spending over the coming years.But investing in clean generation projects, distribution networks and replacing fossil fuel cars and boilers could be many billions of pounds cheaper if the UK was less ambitious, according to Thu
  
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• Carbon nanotubes – pathway to stronger, cheaper flexible solar panels

  11-12-2025 16:00 via energylivenews.com
  Replacing indium tin oxide with single-walled carbon nanotubes could transform flexible perovskite solar panels.
  Researchers led by the University of Surrey found that a simple sulfuric acid treatment significantly boosts conductivity while keeping the films transparent.The treatment creates a nickel-based bridge layer that strengthens internal connections. This allowed the team to achieve more than 20% efficiency in large flexible cells and a record 24.5% in smaller devices.Professor Wei Zhang
  
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• GE Vernova lands 85MW Romanian turbine deal

  11-12-2025 15:29 via renews.biz
  GE Vernova lands 85MW Romanian turbine deal
  
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• Small business to get green upgrade relief of £2m

  11-12-2025 15:00 via energylivenews.com
  Labour has promised SMEs £2 million to help cut costs and boost green upgrades.Ministers say the cash will help thousands of SMEs slash bills by investing in clean tech from insulation to solar panels.
  It lands alongside a wider package responding to the Willow Review which found 67% of SMEs that installed kit like solar or sold energy back to the grid cut their day-to-day costs.The new money flows through the Made Smarter Adoption Programme to help firms adopt energy saving technology th
  
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• Equinor-Vargronn, Deep Wind-EDF win Norway zones

  11-12-2025 14:40 via renews.biz
  Equinor-Vargronn, Deep Wind-EDF win Norway zones
  
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• Repsol sells 43.8% of Outpost solar

  11-12-2025 14:19 via renews.biz
  Repsol sells 43.8% of Outpost solar
  
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• Forbes pledges public backing for Scots suppliers

  11-12-2025 14:06 via renews.biz
  Forbes pledges public backing for Scots suppliers
  
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• Transition will halve our energy costs by 2050

  11-12-2025 14:00 via energylivenews.com
  Britain could halve its energy spending by 2050 as decarbonisation cuts costs and shields the economy from fossil fuel shocks.That is the headline finding from NESO’s new analysis of the Future Energy Scenarios 2025 which lays out three illustrative routes to net zero and the price tags attached.NESO says energy-related costs fall in every pathway dropping from roughly 10% of GDP today to around 5-6% by mid-century even as demand rises due to population growth, economic expansion and powe
  
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• Great grid upgrade gets sealink boost

  11-12-2025 13:02 via energylivenews.com
  Britain’s electricity upgrade just landed a major boost as Sumitomo Electric wins the contract to build and install the 140 km Sea Link HVDC cable between Kent and Suffolk.The project is central to the Great Grid Upgrade, the national push to move more clean power around the country faster and cut constraint costs that hit bills.
  Sea Link will be built at Sumitomo Electric’s new submarine cable factory at the Port of Nigg in Scotland, giving the UK a rare dose of industrial strategy
  
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• Zelestra wins 108MW in Italy FER X round

  11-12-2025 12:57 via renews.biz
  Zelestra wins 108MW in Italy FER X round
  
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