Over the coming year Ofgem should complete an urgent review of the grid in Scotland and within six months it should review the financial burden of transmission charges in Scotland, says the Scottish Affairs Committee. It wants transmission charges and…

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Mitie is offering to install EV chargers companies as one of four new ‘Plan Zero BoltON packages’ that do not require capital upfront. The packages cover remote building management (Pulse), solar power (Shine), lighting optimisation (Glow) and electric vehicle (EV)…

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Two energy suppliers, Utility Point and People’s Energy, have announced that they are ceasing to trade. Utility Point supplies gas and electricity to around 220,000 domestic customers. People’s Energy supplies gas and electricity to around 350,000 domestic customers and around…

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The decarbonisation of heat will fragment the UK’s utility structure and throw up new challenges for regulation, suggests discussion at the British Institute for Energy Economics (BIEE) biannual research conference. A potential future emerged that would see households split between…

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UK Power Networks has used a new cable plough at National Trust site Dunstable Downs to help replace overhead lines with underground cables. The remote-controlled cable plough means trenches do not have to be dug. It can install up to…

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1Spatial has won a contract to develop data transformation and data ingestion platform to allow hundreds of asset owners to upload and transform their underground asset datasets for GB’s planned National Underground Asset Register. This new digital map, produced by…

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Renewable Exchange has announced that a renewable energy co-operative has used its platform to simultaneously tender and execute the power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 25 solar assets, including the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome in Newport. Renewable Exchange said the Egni…

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By 1 September suppliers had presented 105,263,447 Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs), Ofgem reports. The volume represents a shortfall of more than 10% – 13,827,297 ROCs – against the obligation for the year of 119,090,744. The deadline to present ROCs was…

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London-listed investment company VH [Victory Hill] Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO) has announced plans to invest £78 million ‘net zero’ flexible power generation projects. It will fund construction of two combined heat and power plants, with a combined capacity of…

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The Aldersgate Group has called for a more detailed policy framework to drive low carbon investment in industry and published reports from Frontier Economics and University College London (UCL) backing up its call. The report from UCL on Delivering competitive…

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