The Crown Estate has invited expressions of interest for a £10 million pilot fund Interest from businesses who want support for projects aimed at supporting the development of new supply chain capability for floating wind in the Celtic Sea. The…
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Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm to make redress payment of £33M
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Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) has agreed to make redress of £33.14 million after accepting that it breached energy market rules. BOWL also made immediate changes to its bid pricing policy. The electricity system operator uses the balancing mechanism (BM)…
General Election on 4 July: the industry responds
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Georgia Tinson, Communications and Press Officer, Association for Decentralised Energy: “Record temperatures and increasingly unpredictable weather are now the hallmark of the British summer – and an election called for July will be starkly framed against the backdrop of an…
Electricity System Operator prepares to move away from fax communications
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Electricity system operator NGESO is preparing to end the use of faxes to communicate instructions between its control room and market participants. It has to replace the system because the analogue telephone network will be decommissioned in 2025. The system…
Pumped storage plant proposed for Loch Ness
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Glen Earrach Energy Limited (GEE) has announced plans to develop a pumped storage hydro project at Balmacaan Estate, Scotland with storage capacity of 30GWh. The project will represent an investment of more than £2 billion and create at least 600…
Government acquires Wylfa site to host new large nuclear station
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The government has named Wylfa in Anglesey as its preferred site for a new nuclear power station to follow Sizewell C. It is talking with global energy firms to explore building a plant similar in scale to Sizewell C. The…
RES applies for planning consent for Nuneham solar farm
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Renewable energy company RES has submitted a planning application for a 49.9MW solar farm at Nuneham to South Oxfordshire District Council. Changes that have been made during the project’s development include the removal and relocation of solar infrastructure which has…
Sizewell C challenge dismissed by Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court has refused an application to hear a legal challenge to the Sizewell C development consent order (DCO), saying that “the application does not raise an arguable point of law”. The challenge was filed by Together Against Sizewell…
ADE says heat networks’ success depends on shifting green levies
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Heat network zoning and shifting ‘green energy’ levies from electricity to gas bills will be key factors in successfully deploying heat networks in GHB, says the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE). Speaking after the ADE’s recent Heat Network Conference, the…
German construction work starts on NeuConnect
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Major construction work has begun at the German end of NeuConnect, an electricity interconnector directly linking the German and GB grids. NeuConnect is a privately financed £2.4 billion project led by Meridiam, Allianz Capital Partners (on behalf of the Allianz…