Generation

WPD hails success of short-term flexibility market trial

How feasible is Johnson’s green industrial revolution plan?

EDF granted consent to build 299MW gas peaking plant

EDF Energy has been granted a development consent order by business and energy secretary Alok Sharma to build a 299MW gas peaking plant at its West Burton site in Nottinghamshire. The company has also announced plans to build a 49.9MW solar farm near Bramford in Suffolk.

ESO and UKPN trial distributed reactive power service

‘The current energy system is rigged against low-income households’

EDF backs carbon tax

Kwarteng: I don’t see the problem on returns

Kwasi Kwarteng has rebutted suggestions that investors will be put off UK energy infrastructure by Ofgem’s drive to curb network returns. In his keynote address at Utility Week’s Build Back Better Forum the energy minister said he was confident Ofgem would reach a settlement with energy networks that incentivises backers.

Introducing the voices of the future

The energy industry has laid the foundations for net zero but it is the next generation of sector leaders that will be responsible for ensuring the 2050 target is achieved. In the first of a series of articles, Utility Week talks to the five winners of the Young Energy Professionals Awards 2020 to gauge their views on everything from decarbonisation to diversity. We start with how young people perceive the energy sector and how this is changing.

A decade of rapid change: UKPN turns 10

UK Power Networks was formed in 2010 and since then has been part of a number of an evolution of the energy system, aimed at delivering clean power to customers’ homes. Leading engineers at the company share their views on what has changed - and what the next ten years is likely to hold.

The Green Recovery – major new report from Utility Week

The role of CfD in an age of uncertainty

Expert View: The importance of reducing short interruptions

Wind sector urged to share data on turbine fires

Weekend press round-up: Water watchdog showers criticism on rival regulator

In our latest review of sector coverage across the national newspapers, Ofwat lashes out at the CMA's generous interim determinations as lacking 'explanation, reasoning or analysis'; three water companies are scrutinised for their offshore accounts; and a report from the London School of Economics states 80,000 jobs could be created in the green recovery.

Build Back Better: WPD’s role in the green economic recovery