Generation

Orsted exits SME market

Renewable energy supplier Orsted is to stop selling its services to small businesses, with immediate effect. The company talks to Utility Week about the business strategy behind the decision.

Spending review ‘an insult’ to climate change agenda

Utility Week speaks to Labour’s energy spokesman Alan Whitehead about what he called “empty words” in the spending review about climate change. Whitehead said the £30 million set aside for new decarbonisation projects made “almost no difference to the massive challenge ahead" and predicated a public backlash.

Proposals for residual network charging refined

Hunterston B reactor needs ‘additional technical analysis’

Scottish government unveils swathe of green initiatives

Northern Powergrid becomes final DNO to appoint CEG chair

Northern Powergrid has appointed the chair of its independent customer engagement group. The incoming chair has years of experience working on boards in a variety of sectors.

First cargo ship docks at Hinkley Point C

Fears over monopolies emerging among flexibility platforms

Construction begins on Scotland’s ‘first subsidy free’ onshore windfarm

Crossdykes windfarm, located in Dumfries and Galloway, is expected to be the UK's first subsidy free onshore windfarm when it is completed in September next year. However, its backers have called for onshore wind projects to be included in the Contracts for Difference scheme, to unlock more "challenging sites".

Closing the execution gap is key to building trust

Last month’s power cut highlighted just how fragile consumer trust is and how a single incident can set it back. Matthew Vickers, chief executive of the Energy Ombudsman, discusses lessons from the incident and how a quick and effective response can help to rebuild broken trust.

Breaking Ground: £300m Severn Trent resilience scheme; £8m Northumbrian Water anti-flood protection and other projects

From the £300 million Birmingham Resilience Scheme to the £8 million flooding reduction scheme, Utility Week takes a look at some of the interesting and innovative projects taking place across the sector.

EVs cannot be dirtier than petrol and diesel equivalents

SPEN appoints former Ofgem director as chair of CEG

John Howard previously served as a non-executive director at Ofgem where he was a member of the energy regulator’s RIIO1 price control committee. Howard also helped formulate the regulator’s definition of consumer vulnerability.

Solar deployment figures branded ‘inaccurate’

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