The government announced the establishment of the Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Advisory Group on Thursday 21 March. The group includes Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry and representatives from Carbon Trust, BP, Shell and Energy UK, among others. The CCUS Advisory Group terms of reference said the…
As part of the Wednesday 13 March Spring Statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond announced that BEIS had launched a consultation on a small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) energy efficiency scheme. BEIS has proposed three possible options for delivering the scheme. The first is a periodic energy efficiency auction…
Cornwall Insight is among the winners of BEIS’s domestic demand-side response (DSR) competition. The 13 winning projects were announced by BEIS on Wednesday 6 March awarding a total grant value of £8.57mn. Cornwall Insight is collaborating with project lead Powervault Ltd and Sustainable Venture Development Partners on the Whole House…
BEIS has published the Offshore Wind Sector Deal, announcing that one-third of British electricity is set to be produced by offshore wind power by 2030. Published on Thursday 7 March, the deal will result in a new £250mn Offshore Wind Growth Partnership to increase UK competitiveness in turbine production, as…
BEIS has published the provisional data for 2018’s energy trends, reporting that renewable energy production increased 8.7% in 2018 to over 20mn tonnes of oil equivalent. Published on 28 February, the release said that 2018 saw primary energy production increase by 2.9% on 2017 to 130.4mn tonnes of oil equivalent…
BEIS has said that it will be increasing funding for carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) projects from £15mn to £24mn. In an announcement on Tuesday 12 February, BEIS explained that the increase comes in response to a review in January and the number of strong applications received to apply…
BEIS has announced £1.2mn of grant funding for six organisations working on energy efficiency supply chain projects at a local level. Announced on Thursday 7 February, the fund comes in response to a government review of the energy efficiency market, which identified both the demand and supply side barriers to…
The government has announced a proposed replacement scheme for the export tariff under the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme, called the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG). Announced on Tuesday 8 January, the SEG is planned to guarantee new small-scale renewable electricity providers payment from suppliers for electricity exported to the grid. The…
Statistics released by BEIS on Thursday 20 December have reported that renewables generated 33.1% of the UK’s electricity in the third quarter of 2018, a record high. Renewable capacity was 43.2GW at the end of Q3 2018, an increase of 10% on Q3 2017. BEIS also reported that November saw…
The evidence submitted to consider the cost, emissions and potential for bioenergy has been reviewed by BEIS. Published on Friday 30 November, the Bioenergy Heat Pathways to 2050: Rapid Evidence Assessment found that there is good research into conversion technologies, but there is relatively better data for commercially deployed anaerobic…