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Environmental infrastructure fund JLEN has acquired an anaerobic digestion plant in Norfolk for £14.8 million. The acquisition of the plant increases the total capacity of renewable energy assets in JLEN’s investment portfolio to 286.2MW.
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The process is underway to find a new CEO of Ofgem who will "transform" the organisation, with interviews starting today. Denise Chevin looks at who could fit the bill, the challenges they’ll face and the legacy left by the present incumbent.
Utility Week magazine editor Suzanne Heneghan considers what next for the energy system following Britain's biggest blackout in a decade
Writing in the company’s annual results to 30 June today (28 August) John Leggate, chairman of Gresham House Energy Storage Fund, said FFR services avoided a far worse outcome.
Diamond Transmission Partners was chosen by Ofgem as the preferred bidder in the fifth round of competitive tenders under the offshore transmission owners (OFTO) regime.
A project to build the world’s most powerful floating turbine has received £3.4 million from the Scottish government.
This week SSEN announced a £10m network upgrade project in Aberdeen while Yorkshire Water has completed a two-year £14 million project to eliminate all ageing chlorine and sulphur dioxide gas use from its water treatment works.
The work will see primary substations upgrading in order to boost network reliability.
Former Npower chief executive Paul Massara has said that this month's power cut should prompt a period of reflection from the industry on resilience and better planning for who gets cut off in a blackout.
The public may have to consider paying for more back up power in order to prevent a repeat of the 9 August blackout, energy experts have warned following the publication of the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) report into the incident.
Wood Group, which is responsible for decommissioning the Sellafield nuclear power plant in Cumbria, has agreed a £250m deal with a subsidiary of US firm Jacobs.
Cracks in graphite cores are a well-known phenomena according to the ONR. Reactor 4 will be allowed to operate for the next four month operational period.
Centrica-owned British Gas business will supply 5,000 churches, schools and community centres with renewable power., making the Catholic Church one of the largest single consumers of green gas certificates.
