Most of Aggregated Micro Power’s (AMP’s) business has in the past specialised in biomass boilers, and acquisitions in recent years enabled it to take charge of the supply chain for fuel, and to staff operation and maintenance for those plants.…
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From the New Power archive: Simon Harrison discusses Future Power System Architecture and code governance
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As the Future Power System Architecture programme, backed by the IET and Catapult, reaches the end of five years, a look back at New Power’s September 2017 interview with the programme’s Simon Harrison. He talks about how code governance could…
Nemo Link: will power flow across the interconnector in a no-deal Brexit?
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Will power trading seize up across GB’s interconnectors after Brexit? National Grid says trading will continue, but it will not be ‘frictionless’ if there is no deal and the UK exits the pan-EU ‘internal energy market’. Janet Wood discussed the…
Drifting into no-deal Brexit
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The UK could slide into a ‘no deal’ Brexit because there has been little possibility to plan for alternatives, Christiane Leuthier, senior director of commodities at FIA, suggested at a round table on Brexit organised last month by trading exchange EEX.…
From the archive: New Power Report talks to new supplier Bulb
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Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood saw the energy industry from the inside and thought they could do better. Two years ago Janet Wood spoke to them Bulb founders Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood tell me they set up the company because they experienced the energy…
As Project Terre gets the go-ahead: from the New Power archive – European reserve auction platform ‘could cut balancing costs by a quarter’
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Ofgem has approved a modification that will enable UK parties to participate in Europe’s balancing market. The change paves the way for the parties to participate in the Trans-European Replacement Reserves Exchange (Project Terre) via National Grid. In February 2018,…
From the archive: Grid Beyond’s Michael Phelan talks to New Power Report
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Aggregation and demand response company Grid Beyond has been granted a generation licence in the GB market. Last August, chief executive Michael Phelan talked to Janet Wood about the company and the importance of load in the electricity system. Under its previous…
Community energy a ‘vital influencer’ for a new energy industry with distributed generation and EVs
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The broad energy industry must support the community energy sector if it wants to get public buy-in to dramatic changes in the energy landscape, says Emma Bridges, chief executive of Community Energy England. Talking to New Power Report ahead of…
Legislation outlawing data flows between gas and electricity System Operators ‘not fit for purpose’ as cold snap tests interaction
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Fully separating National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO) functions from the transmission owner has thrown into relief the different approach taken over gas, and the limits to information flow between the two parts of the energy system at times of…
Women in power: abstracts from interviews published in New Power Report
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Pamela Taylor, Partner, Innovation Link, Ofgem Pamela Taylor is at Ofgem’s “grid edge”. She runs the regulator’s Innovation Link, a service for innovators that gives them feedback on energy and power ideas. It also gives them space to pilot projects in…