August 2020

THE GLOBAL GRID-CONNECTED ENERGY STORAGE MARKET IS EXPECTED TO GROW BY MORE THAN 5GW IN 2020 DESPITE THE DISRUPTION CAUSED BY THE GLOBAL COVID-19 PANDEMIC, ACCORDING TO IHS MARKIT. The report also predicts the market will top 15 gigawatts in 2025.

THE GULF COUNTRY OF NEARLY 10 MILLION IS THE NEWEST MEMBER OF A GROUP OF NOW 31 COUNTRIES RUNNING NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONS. Unit 1 of the UAE’s Barakah plant, the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant, has connected to the national

THE HYDROGEN TASKFORCE HAS PUBLISHED A NEW ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT THAT SUGGESTS HYDROGEN DEPLOYMENT COULD GENERATE £18BN FOR THE UK ECONOMY BY 2035, DRIVING FORWARD THE COUNTRY’S GREEN RECOVERY. The taskforce has called for amendments to be made that would enable

LAST MONTH WE REPORTED THAT RENEWABLE ENERGY WAS THE EU’S BIGGEST SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY, NOW A NEW REPORT HAS FOUND THAT WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCED 10 PER CENT OF THE WORLD’S ELECTRICITY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR. The

AN INVESTMENT OF €30M FROM THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT WILL ENABLE WORK TO BEGIN ON THE 30MW PILOT PHASE OF THE AMBITIOUS 700MW WESTKÜSTE 100 GREEN HYDROGEN PROJECT. The partners of the Westküste 100 project have received funding confirmation from the German

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT COMMITTEE (EAC), PHILIP DUNNE, HAS WARNED THAT THE POTENTIAL FOR HYDROGEN TO PLAY A KEY ROLE IN THE UK’S NET ZERO TRANSITION COULD BE SQUANDERED BY THE LACK OF ANY CLEAR HYDROGEN STRATEGY FROM

THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED IT WILL RELAX PLANNING LEGISLATION TO MAKE IT EASIER TO CONSTRUCT LARGER BATTERY STORAGE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM SOLAR AND WIND FARMS ACROSS THE UK. As the world intensifies its efforts to adapt to the disruption caused by