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UK gives green light for ‘world’s largest’ battery project

A multi-project site on an old UK coal power plant, will be home to what developers are calling the world’s largest battery storage system.

SNRG and Australian start-up expand UK microgrid market

UK microgrids developer SNRG has partnered with Australian decentralized energy systems management firm Gridcognition to electrify residential households in the UK.

bp joins multi-billion-dollar hydrogen effort in UK, UAE

bp has partnered with Abu Dhabi energy firms ADNOC and Masdar to decarbonize the UK and United Arab Emirates’ energy and transportation systems.

2020 tipped the balance for British renewable energy

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. New research by Drax Electric Insights shows that the UK broke all records last year for renewable energy consumption. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking