BEIS

Community energy map to connect grassroots projects, local authorities and DNOs

Community Energy England has joined forces with BEIS Net Zero Hubs and Community Energy Scotland to compile a nationwide map of community energy groups, projects, and their locations to boost grassroots collaborative innovation.

12/08/2022

Analysis

Potential for net zero innovation to drive levelling up ‘undeniable’

Carl Ennis, CEO of Siemens GB&I and chair of Net Zero North West, explores how investing in net zero innovation could be the key to successfully spreading opportunity more equally across the UK.

02/08/2022

Comment

Kwarteng accused of ‘caving in’ to backbench onshore wind critics

Kwasi Kwarteng has claimed that the government is promoting onshore wind “aggressively and passionately” after being accused by Ed Miliband of caving into net zero sceptic backbench MPs by failing to back the technology more strongly in the government’s energy security strategy.

20/04/2022

News

Innovation round-up: SGN hydrogen project funded, E.ON green homes pilot, Ofwat to extend innovation competition?

The latest Innovate round-up highlights £29.9 million in funding awarded to SGN to test the use of high-pressure pipelines for hydrogen, a ‘smart load management’ pilot by E.ON, and news that Ofwat has proposed running its innovation competition beyond its original timeframe.

08/04/2022

News

Innovation towards greater clean energy independence given £10m boost

Green energy entrepreneurs striving to cut the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels have the chance to bring their innovations to life thanks to £10 million funding through the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.

25/03/2022

News

Minister assures security will not be sacrificed for investment

The government will not compromise the UK’s national security in its search for investment in critical infrastructure like nuclear power stations, an energy minister has pledged. Responding to concerns over the involvement of Chinese firm CGN in EDF's planned Sizewell C nuclear project, Lord Callanan said: “The government emphatically do not support investment in our critical infrastructure at the expense of national security. There is no compromising on that point.”

10/03/2022

News

Innovation round-up: turbine ‘fan club’, BEIS backs gravity-based energy store

The latest Innovate round-up includes news of Octopus launching a new development model for renewables and BEIS pledging just shy of one million pounds towards a four MWh gravity-based storage facility project.

25/02/2022

News

Meet the Innovators: Yasmin Ali, BEIS

UW Innovate caught up with Yasmin Ali – energy innovation project manager at BEIS – to reflect on her 11 years in utilities ahead of her appearance at Utility Week’s Adapting for Net Zero Conference 2021.

10/11/2021

Interviews

On the move: BEIS director joins Aurora

This week in utility appointments: a BEIS director joins Aurora Energy Research; Thames continues its directorial shuffle with a new engineering director; and Portsmouth Water creates a chief customer officer role.

24/06/2021

News

Efficiency labelling could plug future water deficit

BEIS is considering extending energy efficiency labels to cover showers and taps however water efficiency experts have urged that a standalone label would have a far greater impact

20/08/2020

News

Build Back Better: Local policy and funding crucial – Jeff Hardy

Devolved energy policy and funding would serve decarbonisation best, 60 academics who form the EnergyRev research will tell BEIS, as one of their number Dr Jeff Hardy explains.

13/08/2020

Analysis

Build Back Better: Government needs to get on with it – Armitt

“If you don’t want to make a decision, you can always find a reason for not making it,” says John Armitt, chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, on the lack of energy policy coming out of BEIS. We’re risking missing net zero targets if it doesn’t make its mind up soon, he tells Denise Chevin.

03/08/2020

Analysis

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