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Local pricing and Winser plans clash, warns renewables body

It is “probably not possible” to reconcile Electricity Network Commissioner Nick Winser’s recommendations for more centralised grid planning with proposals in another government review for localised power pricing, a RenewableUK (RUK) director has warned. The renewable industry umbrella body’s executive director for policy and engagement Ana Musat said that her organisation “fully supports” the recommendation in Winser’s government-commissioned review for a centralised, spatial transmission network plan. However, Musat expressed concern about tensions between Winser’s recommendation and “very radical options” for locational marginal pricing.

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Weekend press: Gas network battles revolt against hydrogen trial

Northern Gas Networks is battling to prevent its proposed hydrogen trial in Redcar from suffering the same fate as Cadent’s Whitby project, which was the only other candidate to become the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’ but was cancelled earlier this year due to local opposition. Also in the latest round-up of the weekend’s papers, the government is warned that heat pumps are currently ‘too noisy’ for millions of British homes and England sees no new applications for onshore wind farms.

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