Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy claimed a milestone when it installed turbine 51 at East Anglia One: it was offshore direct drive wind turbine number 1,000, eight years on from the first the company supplied. The company now has 1000 more direct…

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Euronext is to acquire a majority stake (66%) of Nord Pool group, which runs physical power markets in Europe, valuing the group at €84 million. Euronext said it will enter into a partnership, governed by a shareholder agreement, with the Nordic…

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What does the UK have to offer the world? In this month’s New Power, reports and interviews reiterate that the UK is seen as a leader in meeting the technical and financial challenges of decarbonisation and the potential to expand…

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Anglian Water Services has signed the UK’s largest onsite solar PV generation deal with NextEnergy Capital, Investment Manager for the NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF). In the deal, awarded after a competitive tender, NextEnergy Capital will design, build, operate, and own over…

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Grid constraints, the potential for marine renewables and community renewables, and the shift to zero-emission vehicles are among the areas wherethe National Infrastructure Commission Wales (NICW) is seeking evidence to develop its work programme for the coming year. Discussing the…

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The Committee on Climate Change is seeking to understand how deep decarbonisation of industry could be achieved and it has published a tender for analysis ahead of its sixth Carbon Budget – the first to be produced with Net Zero…

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E.On has announced major changes to its UK operations that will move Npower’s residential and small and medium-size enterprise customers to be served by E.On UK on a shared IT platform. Npower’s industrial and commercial customers will continue to be served separately.…

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National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is set to boost transmission capability across three stressed areas without having to build more wires. Instead it will manage the flow. Together the three areas are expected to find 1.5GW of extra carrying capability,…

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The next two weeks should see direct access to the Balancing Market (BM) opened up for distributed generation, aggregators and consumers Legally, a modification to the Connection and Use of System (Cusc) rules, now agreed by Ofgem, will introduce the concept…

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BayWa r.e. has sold its Tralorg wind farm in South Ayrshire to UK pension fund RPMI Railpen (Railpen). Tralorg is an eight-turbine wind farm 30km south of Ayr, Scotland, with an installed capacity of 18.8MW. The project is expected to…

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