European energy supplier E.ON has announced it will retire a ‘pioneering’ offshore wind farm in the UK, which began generating renewable energy almost two decades ago off the coast of Northumberland. The 4MW Blyth Offshore Wind Farm was built by a consortium led by E.ON in...
New research has found that summers in the UK could be entirely powered by sources of clean energy by 2050, although gas power stations would still be needed during the winter seasons. Analysts at Aurora Energy Research looked at how the wholesale power market would cope...
The UK produced a record 25TWh of renewable energy in the first quarter of 2018, thanks to a strong performance from its highly-developed wind power sector. Data compiled by EnAppSys revealed that renewable projects contributed to 29% of the UK’s total electricity generation, behind only gas-fired...