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3 weeks ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Mathew Perry |Mark Selby |Jessica Mills Davies
Energy sector leaders struck a resolute tone at the opening of All-Energy in Glasgow despite a growing political pushback against net zero. ScottishPower Renewables has signed a maintenance framework with Enspec Power for annual maintenance services for equipment installed across several of its windfarms in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. By Anna Kachkova
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2 months ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Michael Behr
UK solar developer Green Nation has scaled back its plans for the Whitestone solar farm in South Yorkshire, Northeast England. In an updated proposal, Green Nation has removed around one quarter of the acreage and solar panels compared with the original plan for the solar farm. This comes in response to community feedback, the company said.
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2 months ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Michael Behr
EnergyPathways has published an update as it pushes to engage with stakeholders on its proposed Marram Energy Storage Hub (MESH) project in the UK Irish Sea off the coast of Northwest England.
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2 months ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Erikka Askeland
Drax has signed a 20-year joint venture agreement with Power Minerals Ltd (PML) to develop a factory for processing legacy ash into supplementary cementitious material (SCM), or fly ash, an ingredient in low-carbon green cement. The factory will be built next to the Drax power station in Selby, Yorkshire on land leased from Drax.
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2 months ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Mathew Perry
EET Fuels, a unit of Essar Energy Transition, announced on 26 March that it had signed agreements to supply jet fuel to two additional UK airports. This brings the number of UK airports being supplied with jet fuel by EET Fuels to nine. EET did not name the two new airports it had signed deals with but said that this builds on its existing supply agreements with Manchester, Birmingham, London Stansted, Newcastle, Liverpool, Cardiff and Leeds airports.
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2 months ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Michael Behr
Work on a facility to support the expansion of floating offshore wind (FLOW) in the Celtic Sea is “well underway” at Falmouth Docks in Cornwall, according to a mid-March update from Cornwall Council. APCL Falmouth, the owner of Falmouth Docks, is building a FLOW marshalling facility with 320,000 sq feet (30,000 sq m) of laydown space between County and Duchy Wharfs to serve the growing FLOW market.
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2 months ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Michael Behr
The Celtic Freeport, spanning the ports at Milford Haven and Port Talbot in Southwest Wales, was officially launched on March 13. The official launch follows the freeport opening for business in November 2024. Freeports are areas created by the government to attract investment into certain regions of the country, supported by a range of tax breaks and customs exemptions for businesses within the freeport area and benefiting from port infrastructure.
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2 months ago | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Mark Selby
A feasibility study exploring options for overhauling the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland is reportedly set to propose £3.8 billion of investments in low-carbon alternatives for the site over ten years. According to the Financial Times, which said it had seen documents related to the study’s contents, a best-case scenario could see the amount rise to almost £13bn.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Michael Behr
UK energy-from-waste operator Enfinium has announced the next phase of its carbon capture and storage (CCS) pilot programme. As part of the new phase, the company will relocate the CCS pilot plant currently in place at its Ferrybridge 1 facility in West Yorkshire to Parc Adfer, North Wales, in April. The pilot plant will be installed and operated by clean technology company Kanadevia Inova. A new pilot plant will then be installed at Ferrybridge by UK technology company Nuada.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
energyvoice.com | Anna Kachkova |Erikka Askeland
Saltend Chemicals Park-owner PX Group has been awarded an operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for the Tees Renewable Energy Plant (Tees REP). The facility, which is located in Tees Valley, is one of the world’s largest purpose-built pellet biomass power plants, according to PX Group’s announcement. It has the capacity to generate 299 MW of electricity, or 2.3 TWh per year, equivalent to powering 600,000 homes.
