BayWa r.e. has acquired Forsa Energy’s UK renewable energy business. It will give BayWa r.e. access to a 350MW pipeline of Scottish onshore wind farms – adding to 823MW of solar and 1,047MW of wind power it has under management in…
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Ofgem calls for data to head off €500M settlement change required by EU
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Ofgem is seeking fast feedback from power industry participants on how much it would cost to change their systems to accommodate an imbalance settlement period of 15 minutes, instead of the 30 minutes currently used, in order to head off market…
National Grid, Drax and Equinor join forces on CCUS/hydrogen initiative
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Drax Group, Equinor (previously known as Statoil) and National Grid Ventures are to work together to explore how a large-scale carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) network and a hydrogen production facility could be constructed in the Humber in the…
UKPN active network aims to 500MW of local generation to connect
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UK Power Networks is to invest £15 million in active management network of its power networks in London and the southeast –including a new intelligent software platform from Smarter Grid Solutions – that will enable it to connect over 500MW of distributed…
Has National Grid put another nail in gas’s coffin?
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Who would be a gas generator? Despite the ejection of coal plants from the generation stack (and good riddance, I say), gas has got less and less of the wholesale energy supply market. It has been squeezed out between our…
Anesco to offer domestic package: low-carbon technologies plus auto-switching
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Anesco has launched a new venture aimed at the domestic solar and storage market. The ‘Anesco at Home’ package combines solar, storage, heat pumps and EV charging technology, with an energy tariff auto-switching service and O&M care plan. Steve Shine, Anesco executive…
Gas network Cadent to pay £44 million in penalties
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Gas network company Cadent’s failings over keeping records of the buildings where it delivers gas were so poor as to threaten its fundamental duty, under Section 9 of the 1986 Gas Act, to “maintain an efficient and economical pipe-line system for…
Ofgem holds back on implementation of targeted charging review
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Ofgem has set back plans to alter some aspects of the charging regime, including that for distribution-connected (‘embedded’) generation. The regulator now expects to implement three aspects of its ‘targeted charging review’ (TCR) at the latest of the range of…
Energy from waste plant proposed for landfill site
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FCC Environment is consulting on a new masterplan for the Greengairs landfill site in North Lanarkshire that will include construction of an energy from waste facility, the Drumgray Energy Recovery Centre. The Drumgray ERC will accept up to 300,000t of residual…
London mayor opposes energy from waste plant
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The Environmental Services Association (ESA) said it was “a shame” that London Mayor Sadiq Khan has opposed construction of a new energy from waste plant in Bexley. The mayor’s office said Bexley residents and MPs oppose the plans because it would increase…