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Four bidders have been short listed from a total of eight bids for the next phase of the UK’s £1bn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) competition.

Low carbon innovation has been given a cash injection with the launch of a £16m fund for entrepreneurs to develop new ideas.

The Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters in the North of Scotland have confirmed their place on the global marine energy map as the area is designated a Marine Energy Park.

The government has given consent for the construction of two wind farms off the Norfolk Coast with a combined capacity of over 1GW. This means that 6.6GW of offshore wind power is now either operational, under construction or consented in the UK. The two wind farms at Race Bank (580MW) and Dudgeon (560MW) in the Greater Wash could generate enough electricity to power around 730,000 homes. The projects represent around £3bn of investment.

A new independent technical report on the potential to generate heat and electricity in the UK from deep geothermal has been published by engineering consultants Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM). It concludes that deep geothermal resources could provide 9.5GW of baseload renewable electricity – equivalent to nearly nine nuclear power stations – which could generate 20% of the UK’s current annual electricity consumption.