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Isle of Wight tidal scheme gets go-ahead

Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) has received the go-ahead from the Marine Management Organisation for a tidal energy generation project off the Isle of Wight. The onshore part of the 30MW project was approved by the local planning authority last…

E-serve spin-off planned for autumn

Ofgem’s ‘E-serve’ delivery body will be separated from the regulator and its future set out as part of a new ‘delivery landscape’ by the time of the Autumn Statement. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) says in a…

Fiddler’s Ferry gets stay of execution

Three units at SSE’s Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired station will remain operable for another year and could be retained until 2017/18, SSE has announced. The stay of execution has come after one of the three remaining units won a one-year contract…