Energy networks

Weekend press: Health check of England’s waters faces six-year wait

The importance of being flexible

Over the last five years, Piclo has staked out a leading position as the main market for the procurement of flexibility by DNOs. However, the company’s initial aim was to create markets for peer-to-peer energy trading by consumers. Utility Week speaks to its chief executive and co-founder James Johnston about its early pivot towards network tenders, its ongoing evolution alongside these markets, and the prospects for a return to peer-to-peer trading.

System restoration services open to smaller generators

Grid queue reforms will take ‘five years’ to kick in, solar sector warns

Moves to shake up the grid connection queue could take five years or more to implement, solar companies have warned. Solar Energy UK says that while the majority of strategic objectives in the long-awaited government consultation on its draft energy policy Strategic Policy Statement (SPS) are a positive development, there is a lack of clarity on how they will be delivered.

Ofgem seeks views on how to ramp up domestic flexibility

ESO transmission amnesty to cost £40m

Record year for Britain’s flexibility markets

Councils face bumpy road to decarbonised transport

Ofgem set to approve £600m grid upgrade in Scotland

Piclo opposes distributed energy supermarket model

Overcoming barriers to low-carbon heat at a local level

Search for FSO chair begins

National Gas to test hydrogen feasibility in digital twin

Further enhancements to gas demand flexibility mechanism

Octopus to offer free energy to consumers