Aggreko has won a five-year contract to supply rental power to Network Rail for emergency support and planned maintenance. Network Rail chose Aggreko after a competitive tender to loan and install a range of large output power generation that will be…

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ENGIE has confirmed it is to begin decommissioning its 1,000 MW coal-fired Rugeley Power Station in Staffordshire by the end of June 2016. The company first announced its plan to cease market operations in February this year, due to the deterioration in…

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Eurotunnel will take on sole ownership of the planned ElecLink interconnector. It  has signed a conditional agreement with Star Capital under which Groupe Eurotunnel will acquire  Star Capital’s 51% share of the project. ElecLink is developing a 1000MW high voltage…

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Dong Energy has so far signed up three large users to its Renewable Balancing Reserve product, which invites customers to provide demand response, and New Power understands others are in the pipeline. The offering was launched in February and it…

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could play an important role in the energy mix in the second half of the century, according to a new report from the Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College, London. In its new white paper, Can…

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Feed In Tariffs (FITs) for anaerobic digestion (AD), standalone PV solar and wind installations between 100 and 1500kW have been so in demand that installations are now queued to the first or second quarter of 2017. The quarterly spending caps…

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Carmaker Nissan and power company Enel have announced plans for the first electric vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial in the UK. One hundred V2G units will be installed at locations agreed by private and fleet owners of the Nissan Leaf car and e-NV200…

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The UK’s attractiveness as a destination for renewable energy investment has reached an all-time low and investment in new projects is expected to decrease drastically from 2017, according to Ernst and Young’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index, published today. The report’s authors say the…

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Tech company Open Utility have finished a six‐month trial of an online peer‐to‐peer marketplace for renewable energy, which allowed consumers and generators to buy and sell renewable energy directly. The trial was a collaboration between energy startup Open Utility and…

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Onshore wind must not be “a bunch of salivating subsidy junkies trying to beat on the government’s door trying to embarrass it into maintaining subsidies,” Scottish Power chief operating officer Keith Anderson told delegates at the All Energy Conference in…

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