Energy networks

Reform for customer support and engagement

Pressure point: Enabling biomethane injection into the grid

Time to be smart about financing net zero

How to enhance RIIO2 asset investment strategies

ESO failing to tackle grid connection woes

The electricity system operator (ESO) is failing to tackle transmission queue management problems, an influential group of MPs has claimed. The cross-party group said it welcomed National Grid ESO’s five point plan to tackle transmission queue management issues, published in February, but said the measures have “not proved successful to date”. They warn that failing to improve grid connections puts the UK’s target of a fossil-fuel free grid by 2035 at risk.

Limited ‘window of opportunity’ to bolster UK infrastructure

The UK is at risk of missing the “window of opportunity” to prepare the country’s infrastructure for the effects of climate change, the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and Climate Change Committee (CCC) have warned. The two organisations have urged ministers to urgently develop more effective plans to improve the resilience of infrastructure, in a joint letter sent to deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden and environment secretary Thérèse Coffey. They warn that not doing so puts the country’s infrastructure at risk.

National Gas Transmission wins funding for hydrogen ‘backbone’

National Grid closes motorway to install T-Pylon wires

Eon and SSE join CBI utility exodus

Ofgem: Viking Link delays were avoidable

UKPN applies to set up IDNO

Time running out for EU-UK market coupling agreement

Electricity networks announce three-step plan to speed up connections

DFS needs third-party switching mechanism

Innovation is shaping visions of the UK grid in 2050

How cany energy networks, suppliers and regulators collaborate effectively around whole system innovation? Dan Clarke, head of innovation at the Energy Networks Association looks at the key challenges the sector is grappling with and where fresh thinking can forge solutions.