The offshore wind industry has warmly welcomed plans announced by the Department for Business, Industry and industrial Strategy that Contracts for Difference auctions will be held every two years for ‘less established’ technologies – largely offshore wind and wind farms…
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Network review could see EV users offered higher-priced connection to guarantee peak-time charging
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Consumers may have to pay for a bigger connection to the electricity network if they want to guarantee that they can charge vehicles at peak times. That could be one outcome of a planned review of network charging announced by…
Foresight picks up AD plant
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Foresight Group has acquired an operational anaerobic digestion plant on the Isle of Wight for an undisclosed sum. The Arreton site has a CHP plant providing 250kW of electrical power generation capacity to power the facility (and related waste heat…
New Swedish wind farm backed by 29-year PPA with aluminium producer
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Construction is about to start on a 235MW onshore wind farm in central Sweden, financed via a 29-year fixed-volume power purchase agreement (PPA) with aluminium producer Norsk Hydro. Green Investment Group (GIG), the specialist green energy principal investment business of Macquarie Group, has…
Eelpower acquires Ludlow battery as it plans growth to 1GW
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Eelpower has acquired the recently-completed 20MW Rock Farm battery from Anesco. Eelpower also acquired two storage schemes that will be commissioned later this year – a 10MW scheme near Winchester and an 8MW scheme in Cumbria. The company has plans to…
Industry groups call for ‘flexibility first’ obligation on electricity networks
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Industry groups have called on the government and Ofgem to incentivise network companies to prioritise procuring flexibility services before they take traditional reinforcement measures. The group call their approach to managing the electricity grid “Flexibility First” and have urged Ofgem to…
Pivot Power wins permission for first battery
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Pivot Power has won planning permission to build a £25 million 20MW battery at Nursling electricity sub-station in Southampton. It is the first of 45 sites across the UK where the company intends to site 50MW batteries. Construction is expected to start around March…
Onshore wind poll finds widespread support for expansion
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The government is “massively out of step” with most of the public when it stands in the way of building more wind farms, according to new polling for RenewableUK. In YouGov of 3,600 adults on 5-7 June, 66% said they would…
End-users: what’s your view on demand-side response?
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National Grid’s Power Responsive initiative and the Energyst are looking for views from energy users for their 2018 report on battery storage and demand side response. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the challenges and opportunities from an…
National Grid Future Energy Scenarios: local generation and EVs can help decarbonise
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The UK will have much more power generating capacity in 2050 than in does today, up from 103GW to between 189GW and 286GW, National Grid says in its latest ‘Future Energy Scenarios’ document. The new capacity could be mainly be small, local…