A newspaper report has claimed that the UK government’s on-going ‘Telecoms Infrastructure Review‘ is giving serious consideration to the old idea of adopting regional franchises, which they claim might help boost the coverage of “full fibre” (FTTH/P) broadband, particularly in rural areas. At present it’s widely known that both the [...]

German utility Eon and compatriot RWE have agreed to carve up the assets from the latter's renewables company Innogy. Under the complex deal, RWE will end up controlling the renewable generation assets of both Eon and RWE. For its part, Eon will emerge with the retail and network businesses of Innogy, and will also [...]

Irish utility ESB added 95MW of new onshore wind capacity last year to bring its operational portfolio on the island of Ireland to around 740MW, according to annual results. The semi state-owned company brought the Moneypoint and Cappawhite wind farms in Clare and Tipperary, and the Crockdun and Eglish projects [...]

GE has launched a new energy storage platform to help increase renewable power supplies, provide grid stabilisation and peak demand management. The GE Reservoir will initially comprise 1.2MW storage units, although the company aims to increase the size to 20MW in the future. It integrates GE’s Battery Blade design with other [...]

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has announced a number of special offers and general price reductions across their business focused Ethernet access products, which primarily impacts connection fees and rentals on their 100Mbps and 1Gbps tiers. The reductions all are due to come into effect from 1st April 2018 and reflect discounts [...]

Spanish energy company Iberdrola plans to invest €11.5bn in renewables over the next four years. In full-year results today the developer said the capital expenditure will build the foundations for sustainable growth in the next decade. Renewables capacity is expected to increase by 24% from 2017 to over 36GW while [...]

The UK Government has reached a new accord with the National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England, which should make it easier for churches to be used in order to help distribute faster wireless broadband and WiFi services across rural communities. Churches tend to be one of the highest structures [...]

The English Premier League has won a new High Court Order in London this week that will require broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom to block servers that are hosting “illegal streams” of its football matches, specifically those involving the entire 2017/18 Premier League season. An existing blocking order for this already [...]

German developer WPD has appointed Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp as financial advisor to help raise funds for the 700MW Yunlin and 360MW Guanyin offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Discussions are already underway with international and local banks regarding funding and financial close on the projects is expected by the end of [...]

Dutch coatings company AkzoNobel has launched a new epoxy coating to provide corrosion protection for offshore structures, such as wind turbine transition pieces. The company said the Interzone 954GF coating contains a high-level of lamellar glass flake for greater abrasion and corrosion protection. The product is fully approved in accordance with offshore [...]

The prospect of mobile giant Vodafone gaining access to Virgin Media’s growing HFC cable and fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network in the UK has once again been raised. Voda has confirmed that it is in “early stage discussions” with Liberty Global regarding a “potential acquisition.” In a statement Vodafone said that its discussions were [...]

Poland could have up to 8GW of offshore wind capacity installed in the Baltic Sea by 2035, according to analysis by the Foundation for Sustainable Energy (FNEZ). FNEZ, a Polish think tank, said that 4GW could be built by 2030 together with the necessary grid connections in a report entitled 'Polish [...]