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Government urged to target 1m heat pumps a year by 2035

The UK must invest in ground source heat pump infrastructure in the 2020s, just as previous generations ploughed money into the gas and water grid, in order to help kickstart the fledgling sector, its trade body has claimed.

5 years ago

‘UK needs a flexibility market’

The government should create a new flexibility mechanism to help the grid to deal with rapid fluctuations in demand, a battery owner and operator has told Utility Week.

5 years ago

Electricity North West awards contracts worth £400m

6 years ago

Trends, technologies, key topics, and issues that will shape 2020

6 years ago

What the rest of the world can teach us about decarbonisation

6 years ago

Western Power Distribution tenders for 344MW of flexibility

6 years ago

Appeal for greater transparency over balancing actions

6 years ago

Regulation of distributed generators to be reviewed after blackout

6 years ago

Frequency response performance ‘inadequate’ during blackout

6 years ago

Firms to pay £10.5m over blackout actions

RWE and Orsted have agreed to pay £9 million for failings leading up to last year’s major power cut, while UK Power Networks will also pledge £1.5 million after reconnecting customers too early. Ofgem has also said “important questions” need to be answered about the structure and governance of the National Grid Electricity System Operator.

6 years ago

Cost of blackouts may require ‘fresh look’

6 years ago

Gridserve completes ‘game-changing’ solar farm in York

6 years ago

Ofgem approves SSE role in Shetland transmission link

6 years ago

ESO looks to renewables to provide synthetic inertia

6 years ago

RIIO2 framework for electricity distribution confirmed

6 years ago

Review of 2019: A year that made history

6 years ago

Utility of the Future: Strength in numbers

What wisdom can the likes of Ofcom and the Pensions Regulator bring to utility regulation? Denise Chevin asks Emily Keaney, director of the umbrella organisation the UK Regulators Network.

6 years ago

ESO pledges to lower energy bills by £2bn

6 years ago

Balancing mechanism now open to independent aggregators

6 years ago

It’s time to build a smart energy network ecosystem

6 years ago