The deadline for suppliers to make ‘standstill payments’ of Capacity Market (CM) levies covering the period while the market was suspended passed on 22 November with around £38 million still owed to the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC). LCCC had…
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Corporate PPA funds new solar at Leicestershire brick manufacturer
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PV developer Lightsource BP is to construct a 4.9MWp solar installation at Ibstock Brick’s Leicestershire headquarters for leading brick manufacturer, Ibstock Brick. The site is fully funded by Lightsource BP and a power purchase agreement (PPA) will see electricity from the installation…
Ofgem decides against upgrade at St Fergus to safeguard gas transmission, says it is not needed with falling demand
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National Grid Gas Transmission (NGGT) and Ofgem remain at odds over whether to replace two compressor stations that help pump gas around the national transmission system, and who should bear the costs. NGGT thinks that if there is no upgrade…
Thrive picks up new subsidy-free wind project
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Thrive Renewables has acquired a new wind farm, now under constructuon, in South Ayrshire in Scotland,that will operate subsidy-free. The project, to be named Chapelton wind farm, has planning and land rights for three turbines to totalling 2.7MW and initial…
EnecoUK parent to be acquired by Japanese power interests
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EnecoUK’s Dutch parent company is to be acquired by Mitsubishi (80%) and Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power (20%) in a deal worth €4.1 billion. The transaction has still to be approved by the 44 Dutch local authorities who are the…
NGESO opens tender for reactive power services in Mersey region
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National Grid ESO has opened a tender for suppliers of reactive power services in the Mersey region, seeking services from transmission and distribution-connected (33kV and above) providers and from aggregators. Providers must be ready to supply the service – reactive…
AI used to monitor EVs and technologies used on low voltage network
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Western Power Distribution (WPD), ElectraLink and IBM have joined forces to launch a virtual monitoring (VM) data project, funded through WPD’s Network Innovation Allowance. The VM Data project will enable WPD to identify and monitor the status and distribution of electric vehicles and…
Targeted charging review shifts towards flat fees for networks – response
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Domestic customers with least power use and companies who have power generation on-site are set to be the losers as Ofgem announced the outcome of its Targeted Charging Review (TCR), one of several areas where the regulator is reconsidering how…
Northern Powergrid to use auction to procure flexibility services
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Northern Powergrid is to procure flexibility for network resilience via a dynamic purchasing system and e-auction. Claiming the first auction for such services by a UK distribution network operator (DNO), the company will conclude each competition with a reverse e-auction to…
Sunderland tenants to swap gas for ground source heat
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Residents in 364 homes across seven tower blocks in Sunderland are seeing their gas boilers replaced with heat from ground source heat pumps. There will be a ground source heat pump for each flat which will also be connected to a…