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Government last week revealed further struts to the elaborate edifice that is Electricity Market Reform. It's not enough to rest an investment case on yet, Megan Darby reports.
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The introduction of a capacity market will devalue biomass power plants and drive developers from the UK, industry figures have warned.
Water companies are generating ever more of their own power so they are not held hostage to price hikes from energy suppliers. Lee Jones report
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Wind power capacity must grow exponentially if the UK is to hit its 2020 renewables target, according to National Grid models.
Dedicated biomass power plants will no longer be eligible for subsidies, under the draft Electricity Market Reform delivery plan set out by government on Wednesday.
Communities around eight potential new nuclear sites in the UK are set to be given benefits the government has revealed today.
The Scottish Government has rejected plans for the Druim Ba windfarm citing "significant adverse landscape and visual impacts".
Energy secretary Ed Davey has insisted that the coalition government is looking at not just batteries but advances in "hydrogen technology" so it can "store wind power when it's not needed on the grid".
Two nuclear power stations have together passed the one million hours of operation milestone.
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Energy and climate change secretary Greg Barker has confirmed that householders could get paid hundreds of pounds as part of the renewable heat incentive (RHI).
The European offshore wind sector has grown during the first half of 2013, but is suffering a financial slowdown, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
The UK's new nuclear programme is taking so long to complete that it is in danger of becoming a "museum" piece by the time it is due to come on line in 2020, according to a leading Labour MP.
Negotiations over the terms for a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point have come down to "one or two issues" including the guaranteed power price, according to energy secretary Ed Davey.
