IHI Corporation (IHI) and GE Vernova have announced successful testing of 100% ammonia combustion at IHI’s test facility, engineered to replicate GE Vernova’s F-class gas turbine operating conditions. The project is linked to a potential move from gas to hydrogen…
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Planning requirements to be swept away for small wind turbines
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New government proposals would allow businesses and public sector organisations to install one turbine up to 30m high without submitting a planning application. Until now, planning regulations and high planning costs have stopped many small wind projects before they began…
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New Dumfries factory to produce domestic batteries with social housing users in mind
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Kight Powerhubs has announced plans for a domestic battery assembly plant in Dumfries. The Dumfries facility is claimed to be the first home energy storage factory in Scotland and will serve as the primary assembly plant for the Kight Powerhub.…
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NESO wants consumers and businesses to join Balancing Market as metering rules change
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The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has announced metering rule changes that will allow consumers with an electric vehicle charger, heat pump or battery to sign up through a participating energy supplier or third-party aggregator to help balance the electricity…
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UrbanChain celebrates first PPA in its private market
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UrbanChain said it has signed a power purchase agreement within its private energy market. Power from a solar farm will be matched directly to UK industrial manufacturing demand through UrbanChain’s platform. In the agreement Black Torrington Solar Ltd, a new…
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Welsh renewables groups welcome sector deal
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RenewableUK Cymru has welcomed the Welsh Government’s launch of a new Renewable Energy Sector Deal. The deal, known as Cymru Clean Power, is a long term commitment between Welsh Government and industry to work together to accelerate renewable energy projects…
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NGET agrees substation actions: £20M redress for failings in Cumbria and improvement plan following Heathrow fire
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National Grid Electricity Transmission plc (NGET) has today agreed to pay £20 million into Ofgem’s Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme after it accepted it had failed in monitoring, maintaining and repairing the Harker 132kV substation near Carlisle, Cumbria between November…
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Projects stall because of lack of offtake agreements and policy certainty, says EIC
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Half of developers say UK energy projects are getting stuck before final investment decisions because developers cannot secure bankable offtake deals and long-term contracted revenues, according to a report from the Energy Industries Council. Stuart Broadley, the EIC’s chief executive,…
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DESNZ asks CMA to ‘gather evidence’ on heating oil market as prices rise
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The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to gather evidence on the situation in the heating oil market and look at whether consumers are being treated fairly. Secretary of State Ed Miliband…