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Renewables

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EI Member only

31/5/2023 Feature / Louisa Troitzsch

Bridging the financing gap for ESCOs

Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) will play a key role in driving the energy transition in Europe and reaching the EU’s ambitious climate targets, but there remains an investment gap, especially for financing smaller SME and residential projects. Louisa Troitzsch, COO of Solas Capital AG presents her thoughts.

Methane

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19/2/2025 Comment / Bjørn Otto Sverdrup

Methane: Time for our industry to accelerate action

Ahead of his appearance at International Energy Week*, Bjørn Otto Sverdrup, a former Equinor Senior Vice President, now Chair of oil and gas decarbonisation body OGCI's Executive Committee, explains why methane is one area of emissions that the oil and gas industry urgently needs to tackle.

Digitalisation

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26/1/2022 News

UK call for flexible, digitalised energy system

A new report by the UK’s Energy Digitalisation Taskforce (EDiT) is recommending greater control for consumers over their data to build trust, plug and play options for innovators to enable interoperability with the energy system, and mandated carbon monitoring as key drivers to accelerate net zero.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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16/3/2022 Comment / Marc Height

More impetus to go faster on net zero

The world does not really need any more reasons to accelerate the energy decarbonisation process, but another one has arrived, in Ukraine. Curation’s Marc Height reports.

Finance and investment

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11/1/2023 News

UK government announces new £102mn funding for nuclear and hydrogen technologies

The UK government has further backed the future of nuclear power by investing £77mn to support nuclear fuel production and next generation advanced nuclear reactors in the UK. It has also unveiled a further £25mn of funding for innovative technologies that could generate hydrogen from biomass and waste and is seeking views on proposals to make domestic gas boilers hydrogen-ready from 2026. However, a Commons Committee warns that hydrogen is not a panacea to meeting net zero.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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15/3/2023 Comment / Charlie Bush

Brave New Energy World – one year on

Last year, the Energy Institute (EI) combined Energy World and Petroleum Review into a single digital, weekly publication with quarterly printed roundups. New Energy World aims to reflect the EI’s purpose of creating a better energy future and accelerating a just global energy transition to net zero. Senior Editor Charlie Bush reflects on some of the magazine’s key findings.

Geopolitics

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3/8/2022 Feature / Gemma La Guardia

How China’s Global Development Initiative helps export its green revolution

Gemma La Guardia, Consultant and Research Associate at Guidehouse ES&I, examines how China’s Global Development Initiative can be seen as a follow-up to the Belt and Road programme, providing a further outlet for exporting its green revolution.

Energy and carbon management

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16/3/2022 News

Carbon removals needed as well as rapid decarbonisation to limit global warming to 1.5°C

The world has a 50:50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C if carbon dioxide removal (CDR) initiatives are implemented alongside rapid and deep global decarbonisation, according to the latest study by the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC).

Electricity

29/6/2022 Comment / Greg Jackson

Cleaning up energy is great for climate, consumers and companies

The urgently needed green transition is often regarded as an insurmountable challenge, both technologically and financially. But Greg Jackson FEI, Vice President of the Energy Institute and CEO of Octopus Energy, argues that on the contrary, it is well on the way to saving businesses and consumers money.

Energy policy

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5/4/2023 News

Mixed response to new UK government energy strategy

The UK government’s long-awaited Energy Security Day announcements on 30 March 2023 got a very mixed response, writes Brian Davis.

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