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Closures forecast to tighten power supplies over winter

National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) has predicted a tightening of capacity margins this winter due to plant closures and outages, with the gap between supply and demand expected to fall to 4.8GW during an average cold spell.

4 years ago

UK exit from North Sea energy project risks ‘slowdown’

Efforts to integrate the UK’s energy network with its European neighbours have been hit by its post-Brexit exclusion from a North Sea co-operation project, a senior National Grid director has acknowledged.

4 years ago

SSEN awards first flexibility contracts to windfarm

4 years ago

WPD calls for innovation ideas to help vulnerable and fuel poor

Western Power Distribution has issued a call for ideas for innovation projects to help vulnerable and fuel poor customers. Those that are successful in the competition, which is open to members of the public, will be trialled using funding from the Network Innovation Allowance.

4 years ago

Where is Ofgem’s ED2 net-zero strategy?

Ofgem’s proposals for the RIIO ED2 price controls set out how DNOs will be incentivised to deliver in areas such as consumer vulnerability and large connections. Sustainability First’s Judith Ward asks why the same approach has not been taken on decarbonisation. Without clear signals there is a real risk of only incremental steps towards net zero rather than the step change that is needed, she argues.

4 years ago

Do we need EMR 2.0 to replicate success of offshore wind?

4 years ago

Vulnerable customers must be put ‘at the heart’ of DSO transition

4 years ago

#AskUsAnything: Net zero – how local and how fast?

Join the chief executive of UK Power Networks, Basil Scarsella, and former Ofgem boss, Dermot Nolan, to discuss how the energy sector can respond to local decarbonisation targets.

Date: 16/10/2020 11:00 am

Nolan: Ofgem needs government guidance ahead of ED2

Ofgem’s former chief executive has said the regulator needs statutory guidance on how its core objectives should reflect the net-zero journey before it assesses DNOs’ business plans for the next five years. Speaking to Utility Week, Dermot Nolan also expressed regrets about Ofgem’s approach to the energy retail market and why it was “painful” to see what had happened to the price cap.

4 years ago