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Weekend press round-up: UK firms accused of buying ‘dirty REGOs’ from Eastern Europe

In the papers this weekend there were reports that UK energy providers are sourcing cheap green energy certificates from Lithuania, that Katie Bickerstaffe is leaving her role as chair of SSE Energy Services "within weeks" and that Octopus Energy is looking to expand to Scandinavian and Asian markets.

ESO recommends cuts to capacity auction targets

Squeezing efficiency from energy-from-waste

A high-efficiency waste gasification demonstrator project funded by the Energy Technologies Institute is producing electricity for the grid, but its sponsoring organisation was wound up at the end of December. Before closing day, ETI project manager Paul Winstanley told Elaine Knutt about what the ETI/Kew Technology Sustainable Energy Centre has achieved, and possible future milestones.

Vattenfall submits planning application for 77MW windfarm

Trends, technologies, key topics, and issues that will shape 2020

Innogy begins offshore construction of Triton Knoll windfarm

What the rest of the world can teach us about decarbonisation

EDF unveils plans for 110MW windfarm in Wales

Octopus Renewables to invest up to £185m from National Grid pension scheme

Everything has changed – yet nothing has changed

Utility companies cannot allow themselves to become complacent about their commitments to society and the environment, despite the sudden certainty provided by the general election. Sustainability First director, Sharon Darcy, sets out the ways in which the sector can deliver on fairness and green pledges and how the regulatory regime can align to support this.

Western Power Distribution tenders for 344MW of flexibility

Treasury gives first hints of climate commitment and nuclear position

Tackling climate change will be a “central priority” of March’s upcoming Budget, a Treasury minister has told the House of Commons.

A peaceful new year to you all… for now

Utility Week magazine editor, Suzanne Heneghan, looks at what is likely to be in store for the sector in 2020 - including an overhaul of the policy machine, the next steps on the net-zero journey and further debate over the evolution of the grid.

Appeal for greater transparency over balancing actions

Capacity Market mutualisation ‘no longer required’

The Electricity Settlements Company has scrapped a potential supplementary mutualisation process and confirmed providers will be paid in full this month for the period the Capacity Market was suspended.