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Fears have been raised that billions of pounds of smart system benefits may “slip through our fingers” due to policy, regulatory and governance issues.
7 years ago
The planned transformation of local electricity network companies into distribution system operators (DSOs) is “not sufficient” to deal with the growing threat of climate change, an academic has warned.
Delegates at the Future Networks Conference in Birmingham heard that an emphasis on whole-systems thinking could be the answer to congested electricity networks. Tom Grimwood was there.
Network operators have defended the RIIO framework from criticism over excessive profits, saying the price controls have driven a marked improvement in performance since their introduction in 2013.
Laura Sandys has called for the creation of a multi-utility regulator and network regime to improve collaboration across sectors, lower costs and simplify the industry for consumers.
Drax has announced plans to trial carbon capture and storage (CCS) on one of the three biomass units at its power station in Yorkshire.
Anesco has revealed plans to build around 300MW of new battery storage over the next three years, quadrupling the size of its existing portfolio.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released a timetable for the second phase of its investigation into the planned merger between Innogy’s Npower and the retail arm of SSE.
The UK is unlikely to need any new baseload gas generation to fill the gap left by the planned closure of coal plants, WWF and Sandbag have claimed in a new report.
Npower profits rose by more than a quarter over the first three months of 2018 as continued customer losses were offset by increased demand and reduced costs.