The future of the world’s largest tidal power scheme in Scotland is now uncertain following on from last week’s 2017 allocation round for contracts for difference (CfDs) for renewable energy projects which saw its Phase 1C proposed £200 million expansion lose out to established technologies such as offshore wind.

Severn Trent has started operations at its latest green gas plant in Roundhill near Stourbridge – the utility’s second food waste anaerobic digestion plant.

Tidal Lagoon Power has secured the National Grid connection for a proposed £8 billion,  3,240MW capacity tidal lagoon expected to generate among the cheapest electricity of all new power stations built in the UK.

The UK is coordinating a €5 million EU-funded project to construct an underwater kite to harness tidal energy - the goal is to build and install kites with spans of 12 meters, each designed to produce up to 1.6 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.

The GMB union is calling for UK renewable energy subsidies to be funded via general taxation, describing the Renewables Obligation Certificate system as “unfit for purpose.”

The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of joint control over FHH (Guernsey) Ltd by Brookfield Renewable UK Hydro Ltd.

Welsh Water has signed a £250 million loan facility with the European Investment Bank. The loan will help finance the company’s extensive capital expenditure programme and its plans to further develop renewable energy generation capacity at its sites.

South West Water has held two public consultation exhibitions about its plans to erect single small wind turbines at its sites at Stithians Water Treatment Works and Newquay Sewage Treatment Works.

Yorkshire Water has reached a construction landmark in a £72 million investment project at its Knostrop waste water treatment works in Leeds.

The Dutch firm Tidal Bridge BV, a partnership  between constructor Strukton International, international engineering and environmental consulting firm Antea Group and private equity firm Dutch Expansion Capital, has started the feasibility study for the Palmerah Tidal Bridge project in Indonesia.