Low-carbon generation

Latest CfDs would pay back £7bn per year at current prices

ESO says £54bn required to upgrade grid for offshore wind

CfDs awarded to 10.8GW of low-carbon generators

Could improving diversity help shift public view of nuclear?

Energy Bill gives CMA powers to review network mergers

Crown Estate identifies areas for 4GW of floating wind

Wasted energies: why we’re getting renewables wrong and how to fix it

Wholesale market reform vital to meet 2035 green grid goal

Rolls-Royce eyes sites for first SMR factory

Weekend press round-up: £15bn takeover bid for UK Power Networks collapses

In the Utility Week’s latest round-up of the weekend papers, a £15 billion takeover bid for UK Power Networks collapses after the owner raises the price at the last minute, and the government is criticised for asking vulnerable households to help foot the bill for building new nuclear plants whilst letting industrial energy users “off the hook”.

Eustice says planners are disregarding solar rules

Business case for going green is ‘stronger than ever’

Red tape ‘may impede’ floating wind rollout

Transforming infrastructure is the key to the energy transition

Government hails successful renegotiation of energy treaty