Repowering: from bragawatts to megawatt-hours?

Repowering: from bragawatts to megawatt-hours?

As Scotland's first generation of onshore wind farms approaches end-of-life, repowering may finally force the industry to ask whether we have become too focused on capacity and not focused enough on production.

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Repowering: from bragawatts to megawatt-hours?

Posted on September 2, 2026 by Neil

Repowering offers an opportunity not just to build bigger wind farms, but to build more productive ones. The next phase of the energy transition may therefore be judged less by how many megawatts we install and more by how many megawatt-hours we deliver, writes Philip Nurse, Head of Renewables at Gneiss Energy. For two decades, […]

Key pointers for climate tech funders

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Neil

The last two years have seen changing sentiment towards early-stage investment in climate tech, meaning founders now have to think differently to secure additional capital, writes Andrew Coull, Head of Cleantech & Renewables at Gneiss Energy. Times are tougher for climate tech founders now than they were even a few years ago, when techno-optimism, buoyed […]

Gravitricity appoints Gneiss to lead £40m drive

Posted on January 25, 2023 by teamfishtank

Earlier this year the Edinburgh-based energy storage technology developer unveiled their H2 FlexiStore hydrogen storage technology as a new product alongside their existing gravity-based technologies. The fast-growing company is already planning a full-scale demonstrator project in a former mine in the Czech Republic as well as a purpose-built new shaft scheme in northern England. They […]