Day: 10 March 2025

New report sets out ways to build more energy storage and green hydrogen projects alongside offshore wind farms

Stuart Mitchell

A report published recently by RenewableUK sets out a series of measures to address the challenges developers face when building battery storage and green hydrogen projects alongside offshore wind farms. Energy storage plays a critical role in providing greater flexibility to the UK’s energy system, ensuring electricity supply meets demand at all times. It helps to tackle the issue of variability of renewable energy generation. For example, in times of high winds, the grid cannot always transport the vast amounts of clean power being generated by wind, and although some…

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WBA highlights power and potential of world’s 2,000 most influential companies to protect people and planet

Stuart Mitchell

The World Benchmarking Alliance’s annual list of the world’s most influential companies shows the urgent need for greater accountability and meaningful action from business leaders – without which significant progress on the SDGs is not possible. The 2,000 companies – known as the SDG2000 – are headquartered across 83 economies, with operations and supply chains spanning 221 countries and territories. They have collective revenues of $48 trillion (equivalent to 46% of global GDP). The SDG2000 have the resources to play a central role in protecting people and the planet but…

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Bupa urges healthcare industry to reduce reliance on single-use items

Stuart Mitchell

Supported by Health Care Without Harm, Bupa launches new global whitepaper: ‘Catalysing action on single-use items in healthcare’. As the use of single-use items (SUI) in healthcare continues to increase, posing a significant environmental threat, Bupa is bringing attention to this issue. Supported by Health Care Without Harm, Bupa has launched a detailed global report which outlines key principles for reducing reliance on single-use items in healthcare, while ensuring that the highest standards of patient care are maintained. The global report provides practical, actionable steps and highlights the need for…

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Net Zero Council relaunched to supercharge Clean Energy Superpower Mission

Stuart Mitchell

UK Government relaunches an expanded Net Zero Council, bringing together business, civil society and local authorities to drive the clean energy transition as part of the Plan for Growth. Leaders from major businesses, civil society and local authorities have backed the government’s pro-growth and clean energy superpower missions following a meeting of the relaunched Net Zero Council (5 February), with a plan to help sectors accelerate to net zero and support thousands of jobs. Co-chaired by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and Co-operative Group CEO Shrine Khoury-Haq, the Council brings together…

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Iberdrola and Amazon further expand their global renewable energy partnership and harness the AWS cloud to scale Iberdrola’s business

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon and Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest clean energy companies, have added an additional 476 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy PPAs (power purchase agreements) to their global renewable energy partnership, expanding its presence into five countries.  The new power purchase agreements include Amazon’s first PPA in Portugal for 219 MW from the Tâmega Wind Complex, the largest wind farm in Portugal, scheduled to begin construction in early 2025. The partnership also expanded into Spain, with two utility scale PPAs agreed for a total 257 MW of solar and wind…

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