Updates on ENGIE activity in the UK. Active in the UK energy market for over 20 years ENGIE is a global energy player with UK investments in renewable energy and storage, whilst supplying energy to organisations of all sizes. We are committed to increasing investment in a portfolio of both flexible and responsive low carbon assets, including energy storage, wind and solar.
By 2025 ENGIE has committed to achieve 50GW of installed renewable capacity and 80GW by 2030. Globally, the ENGIE
Group employs 170,000 people. In 2020 the group achieved revenues of €55.8 billion, whilst spending €190 million on research and development. Also installing an additional 3GW of renewable capacity.
Together, ENGIE Group’s 1,000 UK employees are actively engaged in the transition to net zero carbon, through the operation of low carbon infrastructure, and helping business customers to reduce energy consumption, and green their supply. ENGIE is also shaping the future of responsible business by reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet.
ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way.
We're on a mission to make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally.
That means making power greener, smarter, and more affordable for everyone.
We put customers at the heart of everything we do: with always-fair prices, transparency and outrageous customer service.
We drive system change: with transformative tech to make renewable energy the norm and end global reliance on fossil fuels.
Octopus Energy Group is made up of 10 businesses spanning 6 countries across 3 continents, including: Octopus Energy Retail, Kraken Technologies, Octopus Energy Generation, Kraken Flex, Octopus Electric Vehicles, and the Octopus Centre for Net Zero. More on OEG @ octopusenergy.group
Drax is enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses.
Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.
The Group employs 3,400 people in the UK and North America.
Enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future is Drax Group’s purpose and in 2019, it announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technology to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere at scale whilst delivering reliable renewable electricity.