Interesting links, articles, news and blog posts sent out to members on 24/06/24.
News: Renewable energy developers made to wait for CfD results after appeals lodged – Edie.net
21 June 2024. Developers will have to wait until early September to discover if their bids have been successful in the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round (AR6):
Link: https://www.edie.net/renewable-energy-developers-made-to-wait-for-cfd-results-after-appeals-lodged/
News: Will it work? GB Energy – City AM
20 June 2024, Sam Fowles. It’s election season. Politicians are giving us a barrage of policies. But we often forget to ask the most important question: will they actually work? In this column Sam Fowles takes policies on their own terms and asks whether they solve the problem they’re supposed to solve. This week: Labour’s green investment plan:
Link: https://www.cityam.com/will-it-work-gb-energy/
Article: Key oil project must count full climate impact – court – BBC News Online
20 June 2024, Justin Rowlatt & Esme Stallard. The Supreme Court has ruled a local council should have considered the full climate impact of burning oil from new wells – a landmark decision which could put future UK oil and gas projects in question:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxwwzmn12g9o
News: Industry welcomes Labour’s pledge to end onshore wind ban in England to generate low-cost power – Renewable UK
19 June 2024, Rob Norris. Commenting on the announcement at RenewableUK’s Global Offshore Wind conference in Manchester by the Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero Ed Miliband that, if elected, Labour would lift the de facto onshore ban in England, from RenewableUK’s Head of Policy James Robottom:
Article: Can Labour’s GB Energy plan future-proof UK’s power generation sector? – Guardian Online
6 June 2024, Jillian Ambrose and Fiona Harvey. Labour is to put a government-owned power company at the heart of the UK’s energy system for the first time since the privatisation of the industry in 1990, in one of Keir Starmer’s boldest pledges so far:
Article: Ban fossil fuel ads to save climate, says UN chief – BBC News Online
5 June 2024, Matt McGrath & Mark Poynting. The world’s fossil fuel industries should be banned from advertising to help save the world from climate change, the head of the United Nations said:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22vl99vwro
News: Renewables chiefs welcome Labour’s plans for Great British Energy – The Energyst
31 May 2024, Alban Thurston. Labour’s plans to pump £8.3Billion into a nationalised green energy supplier drew mixed reactions from industry participants:
Link: https://theenergyst.com/renewables-chiefs-welcome-labours-plans-for-great-british-energy/
News: Labour pledges clean power push ‘within months’ – BBC News Online
30 May 2024, Paul Seddon & Jennifer McKiernan. Labour’s leader says his party’s green energy plans will ensure the UK’s transition away from oil and gas does not repeat mistakes from the phase-out of coal:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9xxpypr8d0o
News: Slow progress on insulating homes adds £3.2bn to UK energy bills – think tank – The Independent Online
28 May 2024, Alex Daniel. Research shows upgrading average home insulation could save hundreds of pounds a year per household under the new price cap: