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.
Amid work towards the UK’s 2050 net zero target and a shifting landscape of expectation and responsibility, experts shed light on some of the prevailing external forces shaping innovation in asset management.
Utility Week Innovate breaks down Siemens Gamesa’s recyclable wind turbine blades, a 10,000,000 ton problem they’ve been created to solve, and a target of fully recyclable turbines by 2040.
Microsoft and professional services company Accenture have unveiled a five-point plan that aims to speed up the UK’s mission to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The share of energy generation from fossil fuels reached a “record low” in the first quarter of 2019, figures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have found.
The five remaining candidates vying to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader ducked pledging for a more ambitious target to cut climate emissions by 2025 in yesterday’s (18 June) TV debate.
Innogy’s general counsel Claudia Mayfeld will continue to provide legal support for the planned asset swap between RWE and Eon before her departure next year.
Tom Thackray, director of infrastructure and energy at the CBI, says the business body is keen for the upcoming energy white paper to outline a “way forward” on the financing of onshore wind and solar projects when it is published.
A decarbonised energy system in which renewables play the dominant role could ultimately be cheaper than one based around fossil fuels and nuclear power, a prominent academic has claimed.