New analysis considers GB’s ‘whole system’ energy future, with three heat scenarios, and finds ‘flexibility everywhere’ can save up to £17 billion annually. Janet Wood hears that in the short term providers can benefit from flexibility markets – but in…
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Guidehouse: It’s time to rethink the offshore wind grid delivery model
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Izabela Kielichowska, associate director, Guidehouse, Brussels,says ambitious offshore energy growth plans are driving new thinking about energy system design in the UK The UK has been a leader in global and European offshore wind developments. In its 2020 Energy White Paper, the British…
Synchronous condensors: ready to roll out?
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Janet Wood looks at a grid stability option and asks whether it might prompt an addition to the power sector’s expanding suite of investment asset classes In the past, a gas turbine might have been thought more enticing to…
INTERVIEW: Mike Lockett, Uniper, talks about going carbon neutral by 2035
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Janet Wood talked to Mike Lockett, Uniper’s chief commercial officer, power, and UK country chairman, about how a fossil generator sets out to be carbon neutral in less than two decades A year ago Uniper announced a carbon neutral target…
European energy regulators say Covid experience opened a window into the future on digitalisation, decarbonisation, smart meters
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Covid has reinforced the value of digitalisation in energy systems, according to a first report on the pandemic’s effect on Europe’s national energy systems produced by the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). It said in national regulatory authorities (NRAs)…
INTERVIEW: Is electricity retail complicated? Farouk Alhassan says no: he wants to make it easy for suppliers and customers
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Janet Wood talks to Senapt’s Farouk Alhassan about dismantling preconceptions on electricity industry processes, changing the game on supplier platforms and his new ‘MyWatts’ website aimed at helping customers use their supply data Sometimes electricity industry members wonder why…
Managing is key: why EpCM is becoming an attractive alternative to EPC for waste to energy projects
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Paul Harmer, director, conventional generation, Black & Veatch Europe, explores an option that could give energy from waste developers more certainty in delivering their projects The UK’s pipeline of waste-to-energy projects is potentially very strong. “Energy from waste is…
The worst greenhouse gas: why the electricity industry has to grapple with SF6
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In 2018/19 National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) allowed about 12.25t of a gas called sulphur hexafluoride to leak from its system. That may sound like a small amount, but it’s importance to managing greenhoue gas emissions is tens of thousands…
INTERVIEW: Doug Stewart, Green Energy UK
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Janet Wood talks to Doug Stewart about false starts on time of use tariffs, real-world trials on vehicle to grid, the fallout from Covid and why Ofgem’s plan to give customers back their credit balances is not about managing seasonality …
Power Responsive Report: Stacking revenues from Balancing and Frequency Markets will be “game changing” for batteries, says NGESO
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NGESO wants to nearly triple procurement of frequency response in its new Dynamic Containment product, up to 1400 MW in 2021, but so far providers have fallen short of meeting the system operator’s current 500MW target. In its annual ‘Power…