by Ash Mills | May 1, 2020 | News
Renewable electricity will be the only source resilient to the biggest global energy shock in 70 years triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the world’s energy watchdog. The International Energy Agency said the outbreak of Covid-19 would wipe out demand...
by Ash Mills | Apr 29, 2020 | News
Great Britain has smashed its coal-free generation record, coming just under a year since the record was previously set. The record – which National Grid ESO confirmed was broken at 6:10am this morning (28 April) – was made possible by a combination of high...
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...
