Infinity Renewables News
UK has ‘golden chance’ to place renewables at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery
Low-carbon infrastructure must be at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery to provide jobs and economic security, with fairness embedded throughout. This is the key message in a letter sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today (6...
Covid-19 crisis will wipe out demand for fossil fuels, says IEA
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...
Solar helps smash GB coal-free record
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 levels of...
Cleaner air and sunny skies drive all-time UK solar power record
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,...
Smog-Free Skies Allow Germany to Break Record for Solar Power
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...
Earth Hour goes digital for the first time
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...
Social distancing plus a sunny, windy weekend led to some of our customers’ first daytime price plunge
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...
Power companies remind customers to be ready for if the lights go out
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...
Bluefield outlines COVID-19 contingency plans as it continues O&M work
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has outlined the measures it's currently taking as part of its COVID-19 (coronavirus) contingency plan, in a general update published today (25 March). In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bluefield’s key service providers have all...