Drax has announced that it expects to halt use of its last two coal-fired units  in March 2021, although the two units will remain available until September the following year to honour the company’s Capacity Market agreements. The decision, which Drax…

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Erik Nygard, CEO and co-founder of energy aggregator and trader Limejump, has said the DNO flexibility market is too small for companies like his to focus on. Limejump  “dabbles a little bit in DNO fexibility projects”, Nygaard said. But it’s…

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Battery storage operator Zenobe Energy is to provide UK water company United Utilities with a 2MW battery for its Clifton Marsh wastewater treatment works in Preston, Lancashire. The battery will connect to solar panels at the site and will be fully…

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Pivot Power has placed an order with technology group Wärtsilä for 100MW of energy storage to be sited in the UK.The contract is the first to be announced since EDF Renewables acquired Pivot Power in November 2019. Pivot Power is…

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The long-promised energy White Paper has been delayed by turnover in secretaries of state at BEIS, according to comments by Dave Buttery, deputy director of energy security at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), speaking at a…

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A US gas network had to close down a compressor station for two days following a ‘ransomware’ cyber-attack, according to an ‘alert’ from the US’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. CISA said the cyber-attack affected control and communication assets on the…

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Operators of embedded generation will come under more scrutiny as a result of the blackout on 9 August, according to the outcome of an investigation by the Energy Emergencies Executive Committee (E3C). This is an extract from an article in…

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  Ofgem has opened an investigation whether distribution network operator (DNO) WPD has failed to meet licence obligations regarding customers on the Priority Services Register (PSR), including a duty to establish and maintain a PSR, a duty to give information and…

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Diamond Transmission Partners (a consortium of Mitsubishi Corporation and Chubu Electric Power) has been named preferred bidder to take on the link connecting Orsted’s Hornsea 1 wind farm to the onshore network The link is around 145km offshore and 38km,…

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BEIS has awarded over £18 million in funding for technologies that could help energy intensive industries use new, low-carbon alternatives to fossil fuel. The awards are to: HyNet North West, led by Progressive Energy, which has been awarded £5.24 million…

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