by Ash Mills | Apr 22, 2020 | News
Significant decline in air pollution and cool, sunny weather sees UK solar generate all-time high of 9.69GW on Monday Cool, sunny weather and low air pollution levels spurred by the coronavirus lockdown have helped drive a new all-time solar power record in the UK,...
by Ash Mills | Apr 21, 2020 | News
Germany’s solar panels produced record amounts of electricity, exacerbating market forces that were already hammering the profitability of the country’s remaining coal plants. Gin-clear skies over central Europe helped photovoltaic plants produce 32,227 megawatts on...
by Ash Mills | Apr 12, 2020 | News
Homes and public buildings around the world have switched their lights off for another Earth Hour – but this year’s event came with a digital twist. Speaking ahead of Earth Hour 2020, organisers said that, as it was not currently possible for supporters of the...
by Ash Mills | Apr 9, 2020 | News
On Sunday 5th April, thousands of customers on our AgileOctopus tariff got paid to use power between 10.30 and 4pm. Agile is a smart tariff, designed to pass on the highly changeable market price of electricity to customers as a way to reward them for using power when...
by Ash Mills | Apr 1, 2020 | News
Britons have been told to keep torches and gloves handy in case there are power outages, amid potential engineer shortages. A combination of staff sickness due to the coronavirus pandemic and the government’s guidance on non-essential workers to stay at home, mean...
