Energy flexibility

Tech Talk: Taming faults to support the transition to net zero

Flexible Connections: Blocker or Enabler?

SPEN to launch 1.4GW flexibility tender

SP Energy Networks (SPEN) is to launch its largest ever flexibility tender. Graham Campbell, head of distribution systems operation at SPEN, exclusively revealed at Utility Week’s Future Networks Conference that the company is seeking to procure 1.4GW of flexibility for 2023 to 2028.

WPD spearheads combined approach to local energy planning

A consortium led by Western Power Distribution (WPD) is working to create a combined approach to local energy planning to help local authorities and network companies achieve net zero. The Energy Planning Integrated with Councils (EPIC) project is being trialled in three areas in South West England and will seek to develop an agreed process for identifying and analysing energy plans in relation to the increased uptake of low carbon technologies.

Ofgem sets out key criteria for MHHS intervention

Countdown to COP: The state of storage

MHHS should not place limits on elective arrangements

Catch 2050: investing for net zero

The local push to build smart communities

DNOs adopt common approach for weighing up flexibility

Electricity market needs reform to stop ‘drift to central planning’

ElectraLink digitalises DCUSA

ElectraLink, the administrator for the Distribution Connection and Use of System Agreement (DCUSA), has launched a digitalised version of the 1,100-page document as part of a push to modernise the code.

UKPN opens connections portal for green technology installers

WPD launches ‘industry’s first’ open access data portal

A year of Keeping Us Connected

To mark one year since prime minister Boris Johnson urged those who could to begin working from home, Utility Week presents a series of case studies and first-hand accounts from companies working on the frontline to celebrate some of the great work they have done over the past year. Energy networks, water companies and trade bodies come together to reveal how they have been keeping us connected over the last 12 months.

Three nuclear units drop out of Capacity Market auction

Major utilities backer warns Ofgem ‘investments must be profitable’

All units in Capacity Market may be required to join Balancing Mechanism

Capacity auction clears at £45/kW

Electricity networks streamline standard flexibility contract