September editor's letter: Is it different this time?
The government’s Green Finance Strategy makes encouraging reading – if read in isolation from all the rest of the issue and a few historical facts.
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Fusion: Looks familiar?
It is commonplace to say that fusion is always 50 years away. Janet Wood looked behind the cliché and found at least one company that wants to have its first commercial-scale plant ready to go in five years.
Show me the money
Organisations have been providing evidence to the Treasury Select Committee’s inquiry into green finance and investment in the UK.
Suppliers set for a shakeout
The supply industry is getting set for a major shakeup. SSE has admitted it is in talks to sell its customer services arm, with 5.7 million domestic customers, to Ovo Energy.
The New Power Interview: Deborah Greaves, University of Plymouth and SuperGen ORE
September database update
This month New Power Database has been tracking developments in GB’s growing energy storage market.
Part-sale
Electricity North West owners First State Investments and JP Morgan Asset Management have agreed to sell 50% of the company to Equitix and a consortium led by Kansai Electric Power Co.
Air storage ended
Troubled Dublin-based green energy company Gaelectric has pulled the plug on its ambitious plans for a compressed air energy storage project in Northern Ireland.
Voucher offer
Kiwi Power is working with the London borough of Greenwich to trial a plan to help residents use less electricity and earn rewards.
Catholic contract
The Catholic church has become one of the largest single consumers of green gas certificates in the UK after it signed a new supply deal with British Gas.