Three companies have paid a total of £10.5 million into Ofgem’s redress fund after the regulator found failings during the blackout on 9 August. The regulator found that two large power stations, Hornsea One (co-owned by Orsted) and Little Barford…

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RWE Generation has acquired the  King’s Lynn CCGT in Norfolk from Centrica at a price of £105 million. The 382MW plant will receive capacity payments until 2035 on the basis of a 15-year contract starting in October 2020. It was…

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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is inviting appications for funding opportunity through the UK Climate Resilience programme. It is seeking applications led from the arts and humanities disciplines and to   include researchers from the natural, physical, engineering, health and…

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Transmission Capital Partners (a consortium of Transmission Capital Partners Limited Partnership and infrastructure investors International Public Partnerships Limited) has been named preferred bidder to own and operate the connection to the Beatrice offshore wind farm, under an Offshore Transmission Owner…

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Plans to regenerate Longannet, site of Scotland’s last coal-fired power station, have been given the go ahead. Fife Council approved proposals for the land put forward by Scottish Enterprise, the national economic development agency. The planning application, for business and industrial…

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Breeze Energy, a gas and electricity supplier with just under 18,000 domestic customers is ceasing to trade. Customers will be transferred under the regulator’s ‘Supplier of last resort’ process to another supplier yet to be appointed.  Philippa Pickford, Ofgem’s director…

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There is “at least 500MW and possibly as much as 1,000MW” fast response batteries that could be deployed within a year if National Grid ESO (NGESO) tweaked the rules for balancing the network, according to Habitat Energy’s co-founder Ben Irons. There is…

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iSupply Energy is to pay £1.5 million after the supplier overcharged around 4,400 of its customers on default tariffs. Welcoming the payment, Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: “We’re pleased to see that iSupply has not only refunded the…

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NextEnergy Solar Fund has announced  completion of a 50MWp subsidy-free solar farm at Staughton. Located on a former airfield on the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire border, NESF says Staughton is its second subsidy-free solar plant energised during the current financial year, following the…

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VLC Energy has sold two operational battery storage facilities totalling 50MW to Gresham House Energy Storage Fund for £29.2 million. VLC Energy is a joint venture between Low Carbon and VPI Immingham (a subsidiary of Vitol Group). The facilities comprise a 40MW facility at…

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