‘Buildings as a Grid’ is the new keyline from power management company Eaton. It acquired EV charging company Green Motion in March and it and has launched a suite of hardware, software and services that enable building owners to step up…

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 Solar investor NextEnergy Capital Group has claimed the record for the largest solar farm constructed and energised in the UK with the 75MWp Llanwern farm. The £43M solar farm in Newport, Wales is one of two new subsidy-free solar farms brought…

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has granted nine energy companies permission to appeal price control decisions made by Ofgem on their business plans for the next five years. Cadent Gas, National Grid Electricity Transmission, National Grid Gas, Northern Gas Network, Southern Gas Networks  and…

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Greencoat Renewables has acquired Glencarbry wind farm from John Laing Group for £26.6 million. Glencarbry, in County Tipperary, Ireland, consists of 12 Nordex turbines that have been operational since July 2017. The wind farm’s revenues are contracted under the REFIT 2…

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UKRI has issued a second Call for Proposals for research to be funded under its Flexible Fund. It expects to distribute £1 million of funding. It is looking for projects in three key research areas that are important to understanding…

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Distribution network operators (DNOs) will adopt a common tool from tomorrow (1 April) to market-test and make decisions on potential flexibility solutions. The new tool is a standard and transparent methodology to be used when choosing solutions to solve congestion,…

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A 50MW solar farm developed by Anesco has been given the green light by East Lindsey District Council, with the company gearing up for its latest wave of large-scale solar projects. Anesco’s 50MW Low Farm solar farm has been given…

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Communities have  until the end of March to put forward proposals to host a fusion project, the so-called Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), intended to be a major step towards commercialisation. The process  is being run by UKAEA, which is looking…

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SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT) has signed an agreement with BP’s Chargemaster EV charging point operator to install “a significant number” of rapid and ‘ultra-fast’ EV charging locations, to be built by The Electric Vehicle Network (EVN) and  contracted through a 20-year, fixed price,…

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