Climate Change Agreements (CCAs) are a government-backed initiative, aimed at encouraging energy-intensive businesses to reduce their consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. CCAs operate as part of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) scheme, and offer eligible companies significant discounts on their energy bills in exchange for meeting agreed energy or carbon Read more…
A main objective of COP29 was to create a robust process for tracking carbon credit transactions between countries, and to set a globally recognised standard for the projects associated to those credits. Whilst strides were made towards establishing a suitable trading mechanism, agreement on a quality standard for carbon credits Read more…
One of the simplest solutions to our intermittency problem is storage. This is likely no surprise, as battery storage is now commonplace, with figures from the IEA showing an 8-fold increase in capacity since the turn of the decade: Graph per IEA Commercial and domestic renewable generation assets alike will Read more…
Renewable electricity reached almost record levels in Q1-24, producing more than 50% of the UK’s total generation during that period. Based on the rapidly increasing allocations in the latest round of the CFD scheme, the launch of Great British Energy, and COP28’s goal of tripling renewables by 2030, we can Read more…