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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Industry data body Electralink has launched a consultation on a new enabling service for energy flexibility service providers. To be known as Flexr, it aims to deliver improved distribution system operator (DSO) data sharing. The company says flexibility services in the…

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Startup energy supplier Neo Energy has offered new credit customers free electricity for up to two months over the summer if they sign up to the deal before the end of April. It says it will not bill customers who…

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