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To reach carbon net-zero by 2030 Yorkshire Water has opened a tender for the building and operation of 150 solar PV arrays to generate electricity for the company across its sites.
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In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, Boris Johnson is under pressure to ignore his chief advisor’s scepticism about a mass home insulation drive. Meanwhile, there are reports that Ofgem is to back track on changes to the gas transmission charging regime in the face of pressure from heavy industrial users.
Centrica Business Solutions has launched an energy-as-a-service bundle requiring no upfront cost to consumers wanting to install their own power generation. A typical project would see Centrica design, install and maintain energy solutions alongside the supply of gas and top-up electricity, to deliver guaranteed energy savings. They would then be repaid from the savings made over the contract term.
Committee on Climate Change (CCC) chair Lord Deben has branded as “unacceptable” comments that the body is focussed on politically palatable solutions. Meanwhile, Centrica tells Utility Week that the government should set a more ambitious target for banning the sale of internal combustion engine cars and vans than that recommended by the CCC.
We continue our series leading up to an expected emergency budget by asking Sue Ferns senior deputy general secretary at the union Prospect, her views on where pace could be picked up to accelerate a green recovery.
The latest stats on energy trends show a bumper quarter for renewables, with fossil fuel generation reaching a record low and wind generating 30 per cent of all UK electricity
Phasing out the sale of internal combustion engine cars and vans should be accelerated to 2032, the government’s influential climate change watchdog has urged. In its latest progress report on the UK’s efforts to cut emissions, the Committee on Climate Change also urges a rapid acceleration of hydrogen production and a move to annual Contracts for Difference auctions.
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen has urged the government to commit to low-carbon clusters across the country or risk investment going abroad. He also put forward a spirited defence of hydrogen and CCS as “proven” technologies.
Ofgem has capped balancing services use of system (BSUoS) costs at £15 per MWh until the end of August and introduced a licence modification allowing any additional costs due to Covid to be deferred to the next financial year. National Grid ESO's initial calculations had suggested a £400 million increase in balancing costs between May and August but this has now been revised to between £170 million and £300 million
Ofgem’s draft determinations on RIIO2 next month must “send the right signals on the central role electricity networks have in delivering net zero”, according to Scottish Power. Ensuring the price control framework stimulates economic opportunities to drive forward decarbonisation is one of “10 practical steps for a green recovery” put forward by the company.
The members of the pioneering citizens assembly, which has been set up to help the UK chart a route to net-zero emissions, have overwhelmingly backed using post-pandemic stimulus measures to support carbon reduction. The chairs of the select committees which commissioned the assembly urged Boris Johnson to take account of the findings from an interim report on the views of the Climate Assembly UK.
