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Community energy schemes need more policy support

Lack of policy support is now the key barrier to the wider uptake of community energy schemes, a leading ethical investor has warned.

6 years ago

NIC launches resilience infrastructure consultation

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has launched a consultation to inform its new probe into the resilience of the UK’s infrastructure network.

6 years ago

Independent aggregators invited into balancing mechanism

6 years ago

Energy UK backs motoring tax review to support shift to EVs

Energy UK has joined up with motoring organisations to urge Philip Hammond to commission an independent and wide-ranging review into how the UK will cope with the collapse of road fuel duties that will be triggered by a shift to electric vehicles.

6 years ago

Concerns for Network Innovation Competition future funding

The Energy Networks Association has raised concerns over the future of innovation funding, while announcing its members have chosen to move forward with seven proposals submitted in response to a call for ideas for Ofgem’s annual Network Innovation Competition.

6 years ago

Capacity market payments will be voluntary during standstill

6 years ago

MPs to examine impact of nuclear generation gap

6 years ago

Northumbrian Water signs UK’s first offshore wind PPA with Orsted

6 years ago

UK pressing ahead with plans for carbon price linked to EU ETS

6 years ago

Shell snaps up smart energy firm Limejump

Shell has agreed to buy the smart energy firm Limejump for an undisclosed sum. Upon

6 years ago

Council agrees £62m deal to build ‘pioneering’ subsidy-free solar farms

6 years ago

Ovo partners with Glen Dimplex to deliver smart heating

Ovo has today (28 February) announced a new partnership between its technology business Kaluza and Glen Dimplex Heating and Ventilation in a bid to drive decarbonisation in heating.

6 years ago

Renewable energy consultancy misled public on oil policy

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered a renewable energy consultancy to remove a “misleading and unsubstantiated” claim about government policy on oil from its website.

6 years ago

CMA launches probe into RWE/Eon deal

The probe will examine whether the major European asset swap transaction will likely lead to a “substantial lessening of competition” in the UK energy market.

6 years ago

SSE pays out £705,000 over feed-in tariff misreporting

SSE overstated generation payments in its feed-in tariff (FIT) annual submissions to Ofgem due to an “administrative error” and will now pay out more than £705,000.

6 years ago

Scottish Power to invest £2bn in clean energy in 2019

6 years ago

Growth in US pellet business swells Drax profit

6 years ago

Government to publish energy white paper ‘in early summer’

Pressed on the timing of the long-awaited policy paper last week during a debate on small modular reactors (SMRs) in the House of Commons, junior business minister Richard Harrington, said: “That will happen in the next few months—in early summer.”

6 years ago

Manifesto demands stronger support for community energy

6 years ago

Nicola Sturgeon defends resurrection of tidal project fund

Scotland's first minister has defended her government’s resurrected tidal project fund against the concern that it is "window dressing".

6 years ago