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The government has enshrined the embargo on onshore wind farms in its new national planning
7 years ago
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has presented the case to Ofgem for a new 220MW transmission link between the Orkney Islands and the Scottish mainland.
A loophole in the capacity market rules has enabled battery storage to avoid revenue cuts by disguising itself as demand-side response (DSR), an industry expert has warned.
Smartest Energy is hoping to benefit from the demand-side response (DSR) market after signing a deal with Origami Energy to use its smart grid platform.
Theresa May has pledged to explore how the UK can continue to participate in the EU’s internal energy market in her landmark speech setting out the government’s Brexit negotiation stance.
8 years ago
"Offshore wind has the potential to be the backbone of a future world that runs entirely on green energy"
Vital Energy has been awarded a contract of £1.3 million to expand an energy centre at Keele University and install a heating network connecting it to the new Central Science Laboratories (CSL) building.
Energy storage lost out in the latest capacity market auction, with a mere 153MW de-rated capacity agreeing contracts. But continued investor interest in a broad range of storage technologies suggests there is still hope for it yet.
Greencoat UK Wind has grown the value of its portfolio to over £1.4 billion after investing more than £500 million in wind generation in 2017.
Renewable energy supplier Good Energy, which has had an advert banned for claiming its electricity contains no carbon dioxide, has said it can sometimes be “difficult to manage simplicity against detail”.
The boss of Drax Power says he is confident the company will be able to secure capacity market contracts for new gas turbines, despite the record-low price in the latest auction.
A groundbreaking tidal power project planned for Swansea Bay can be delivered on the same terms as the Hinkley Point nuclear power station, a Conservative MP has claimed.
Drax Group has seen a rise in earnings despite the loss of £5 million due a fire at its Yorkshire power station which led to the temporary shut-down of two biomass units.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has dismissed an appeal by SSE and EDF Energy against an Ofgem decision on the transmission charges levied on generators.
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that Labour would keep Britain in the EU internal energy market (IEM) and the Euratom nuclear co-operation treaty.
"The UK storage industry has expanded rapidly over the past two years"
Thames Valley Police (TVP) has described the scale of the investigation into the Didcot A power station as “almost unprecedented”.
Low carbon generation accounted for nearly half of the total UK electricity supply in 2017, according to new government figures.
Asset management firm Blackrock has acquired 13.5MW of UK solar assets from China-owned CTF Solar after agreeing a £15 million deal through its Kingfisher partnership with Lightsource BP.
The government has failed to keep track of the sums paid out under the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme to encourage the uptake of low carbon heating systems, the National Audit Office (NAO) has concluded.