The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has written to the Prime Minister, and First Ministers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to set out six key principles to rebuild a green and resilient economy following the Covid-19 pandemic.It says reducing greenhouse gas…

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Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) platform Zeigo is working with law firm DLA Piper on artificial intelligence (AI) contracting solutions to simplify and standardise the contractual process for PPAs and future contracts. They hope the initiative will make small-volume PPAs easier…

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The Port of Blyth begun major redevelopment construction works at one of its terminals, after winning development consent for expansion from Northumberland County Council, The £3 million project will see the reconstruction and strengthening of the quay on the Bates…

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National Grid ESO has delayed several projects planned for the next few months as the Covid-19 crisis has required it to re-deploy expert staff to its control rooms. In an update the system operator said it had a “finite pool…

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National Grid ESO has published draft specifications for a new ‘footroom’ product to help it manage the system during periods of very low demand. ‘Optional Downward Flexibility Management’ will pay providers to increase demand or reduce generation. so that NGESO has…

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Nestlé’s UK subsidiary has signed a 15-year indexed fixed price agreement with Ørsted to buy part of the power from the Race Bank offshore wind farm. Nestlé UK will buy the output of 31MW of the offshore wind farm’s 573MW…

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Vattenfall has announced it will begin construction of its largest UK onshore wind farm, known as South Kyle, once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. A timeline for construction is yet to be confirmed, but Vattenfall currently plans for the 240MW wind farm to be…

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Swissgrid is launching a pilot project in Switzerland aiming to use storage technologies to balance short-term fluctuations in the transmission grid via a  “crowd balancing” platform, known as Equigy, that calls on small decentralised energy sources. The blockchain-based crowd balancing platform…

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A development consent order has been granted for Riverside Energy Park, a mixed energy development in the London Borough of Bexley in Belvedere. The development combines: an energy from waste plant with a generating capacity of around 76MW. The site…

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Oxford City Council has taken delivery of its first electric vehicles (EVs) as part of a project taking an integrated approach to decarbonising power, heat and transport across the city, known as Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO). Six EVs have been added…

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