Scottish Water has invested £951,000 in a scheme to install 1,560 ground-mounted solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels at its Alexandria Water Treatment Works near Loch Lomond which will help save almost 77 carbon dioxide equivalent tonnes of carbon per annum.

Yorkshire Water has signed 15-year agreements with SGN Commercial Services and Centrica Energy Trading that will see biomethane gas to grid plants introduced at its Knostrop and Blackburn Meadows wastewater treatment works.

NI Water has gone out to tender with a contract for solar PV worth an estimated £8 million - the contract covers roof and ground mounted PV installations up to 2.5MWp in size and is split into two lots.

Orbital Marine Power (Orbital), the renewable energy company focused on the commercial deployment of its innovative floating tidal turbine technology, has announced it has been awarded an Option Agreement from Crown Estate Scotland for a new tidal energy project in the Westray Firth.

The Climate Change Committee is warning that achieving the Government goal’s of a reliable, secure and decarbonised power system by 2035 is possible – but not at the current pace of delivery.

Initial findings from a supply chain study by RWE and Marine Power Systems are helping identify where Wales and the region can benefit from the forthcoming Celtic Sea floating wind technology boom.

An innovative solar scheme which produces energy from both sides of a solar panel has been installed at a Scottish Water site to support the company’s drive towards net zero emissions.

A Scots council has renewed a two-year contract to send its food waste to Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre to be used to generate renewable energy.

Anglian Water has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for a Renewable Energy Assets Framework (REAF) worth an estimated £60 million. 

The UK government has today announced its biggest investment in a generation into tidal power as part of its flagship renewable energy auction scheme.