Generation

CfDs awarded to 10.8GW of low-carbon generators

Drax delays closure of last coal units by six months

Could improving diversity help shift public view of nuclear?

Energy Bill gives CMA powers to review network mergers

Crown Estate identifies areas for 4GW of floating wind

Wasted energies: why we’re getting renewables wrong and how to fix it

Wholesale market reform vital to meet 2035 green grid goal

Rolls-Royce eyes sites for first SMR factory

Weekend press round-up: £15bn takeover bid for UK Power Networks collapses

In the Utility Week’s latest round-up of the weekend papers, a £15 billion takeover bid for UK Power Networks collapses after the owner raises the price at the last minute, and the government is criticised for asking vulnerable households to help foot the bill for building new nuclear plants whilst letting industrial energy users “off the hook”.

Plans for DSO regulation fleshed out

Eustice says planners are disregarding solar rules

Business case for going green is ‘stronger than ever’

SSE and Equinor to purchase Triton Power for £341m

Red tape ‘may impede’ floating wind rollout

CCC plays down climate risks of winter coal plant reprieve