In an article first published in the January 2018 issue of New Power Report, Janet Wood looked at how locally electricity should be priced. Three years on, and given NGESO’s need to manage rising constraint costs, is it time to…
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Cheers: NESF picks up Camden PV sites holding 15-year PPA with world’s largest brewer
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NextEnergy Solar Fund has acquired two PV projects for £64.3 million, from Camden, that will provide power for brewer AB InBev for the next 15 years. The sale comprises the Grange, 214 acres in Yorkshire, and South Lowfield, 200 acres in…
Streamlined, transparent contract on offer to give flexibility providers consistency across DNO tenders
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Companies who want to provide flexibility services to distribution network operators (DNOs) will now be able to use a more transparent and streamlined common contract, standardised across all the networks. The existing contract was ‘refreshed’ by ENA’s Open Networks project,…
Cuts to Green Homes Grant would hit consumers, business and Net Zero target: will Rishi Sunak take the crown for ‘worst energy decision’ for business?
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Premature closure of the Green Homes Grant Scheme would put jobs in jeopardy, dash the dreams of homeowners and put the UK’s Net Zero target at significant risk, say 19 organisations in the energy efficiency and low carbon heating sector. Their…
NGESO ready to pay for ‘circuit breaker’ assets to reduce mounting constraint costs, BEIS considering options for long term storage
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NGESO wants industry input on how to manage a fast-growing element of electricity costs: constraint paymenst that arise because the network is limited in how much power can be transferred. These ‘constraint’ costs now represent around 40% of so-called ‘use…
Repowering wind and solar: are open-ended grid connections anti-competitive?
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Are landowners who want to get a better deal from hosting renewables stuck in a ‘power export’ trap? Politicians and energy industry commentators are both saying the same thing: the UK needs more wind power. And although offshore projects…
Centrica promises leaner, greener company as customers and profits fall
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Centrica has brought forward its Net Zero target by five years to 2045 and promised more details in a Climate Transition Plan later this year. The company says it plans to launch a hybrid heat pump trial in the coming months and…
Wales plan identifies 10 wind development regions, 16 heat network priority areas
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The Welsh Government has identified ten areas where large scale wind farms would be ‘acceptable in principle’ and 16 priority areas for heat networks in Future Wales, its national plan to 2040. The plan says Welsh Ministers considered alternatives to new…
PV, heat pump and private wires are SSE Enterprise’s route to Net Zero at Goldsmiths
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SSE Enterprise has signed a joint development agreement with Goldsmiths, a University of London college in southeast London, to design and deliver a low carbon campus infrastructure in pursuit of the university’s ambitious net zero targets. SSE Enterprise’s distributed energy…
High constraint cost expected to last until end March while Western Link remains out of action
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The ‘Western link’ HVDC cable is likely to be out of action until the end of March, according to NGESO, adding millions of pounds of so-called ‘constraint’ costs because it will not be possible to export all the power from…