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Orsted has traced the outage at its Hornsea One offshore wind farm to a problem with the control software. However, RWE is still investigating exactly what caused one of its gas turbines to trip at Little Barford.
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Last month’s blackout highlighted the importance of energy storage – but investors must judge whether the technology is mature enough.
Northern Powergrid has appointed the chair of its independent customer engagement group. The incoming chair has years of experience working on boards in a variety of sectors.
Utility Week magazine editor Suzanne Heneghan considers what next for the energy system following Britain's biggest blackout in a decade
Writing in the company’s annual results to 30 June today (28 August) John Leggate, chairman of Gresham House Energy Storage Fund, said FFR services avoided a far worse outcome.
Diamond Transmission Partners was chosen by Ofgem as the preferred bidder in the fifth round of competitive tenders under the offshore transmission owners (OFTO) regime.
This week SSEN announced a £10m network upgrade project in Aberdeen while Yorkshire Water has completed a two-year £14 million project to eliminate all ageing chlorine and sulphur dioxide gas use from its water treatment works.
The work will see primary substations upgrading in order to boost network reliability.
Former Npower chief executive Paul Massara has said that this month's power cut should prompt a period of reflection from the industry on resilience and better planning for who gets cut off in a blackout.
The public may have to consider paying for more back up power in order to prevent a repeat of the 9 August blackout, energy experts have warned following the publication of the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) report into the incident.
A number of multi-million projects are going on in the sector. Utility Week takes a look at some of the ongoing work.
