Renewable Energy

Employer-led training to ensure a pipeline of workers for multibillion pound offshore wind farms around the East Anglian coast is set to start next month.

A logistics firm with more than 50 years experience in the oil and gas sector has expanded into the region as it aims to serve the renewables market.

Renewable energy projects across Norfolk and Suffolk are producing more than £71m of electricity a year as businesses continue to invest in independent power.

As the energy industry’s biggest conference in the East of England gets underway, some of the sector’s leading lights express their views on the opportunities and challenges 2018 will bring.

A renewable energy expert has joined the board of New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

A property company has mothballed its energy division and sold some of its assets citing a decline in the market as a result of a drop in government incentives.

Norfolk’s new biomass power plant is fuelling an increased demand for energy crops of miscanthus to be grown in the county.

A consortium of six East Anglian farmers will undertake field trials to assess the optimum use of organic fertilisers, generated as by-products from anaerobic digestion (AD) energy plants.

East Anglia’s biggest gas-to-grid crop anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, based on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, was launched this week.

At a time when councils face cutback after cutback, one Suffolk authority has decided to spend £14.5m on a solar farm.