The Catholic church has become one of the largest single consumers of green gas certificates in the UK after it signed a new supply deal with British Gas. Under the deal with the Catholic church’s energy procurement group, Inter-diocesan Fuel Management (IFM), British Gas will…
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Banks Renewables judicial review puts a freeze on CfD auction
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Banks Renewables has applied for judicial review of the government’s third Contracts for Difference auction, saying it discriminates in favour of offshore wind at the expense of onshore wind and other renewable energy technologies. Banks says that, ”is against the public…
BEIS and Ofgem order reports on Friday’s blackouts
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Ofgem has asked National Grid ESO (NGESO) for an interim report on Friday 16 August, on the power outage that affected large areas during the evening rush hour last week (9 August). A final, detailed technical report must be provided to…
Industry governance: time for transformation
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The UK energy industry is undergoing huge change. In this thought leadership piece, Gemserv talks about transforming governance Earlier in this series, we outlined a Target Operating Model (TOM), with a single portal to service users’ needs. We talked about building a…
Greenwich residents to trial voucher-based demand side offer
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Kiwi Power is working with the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London to trial a plan to help residents use less electricity, earn rewards and pave the way to a greener energy market. Greenwich Energy Hero is a 12-month trial…
URE Energy told: pay renewables subsidy bill or lose supply licence UPDATE Ofgem revokes supply licence
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Ofgem is to revoke URE Energy’s licence to supply electricity after the supplier failed to meets its Renewables Obligation for 2017/18. It owed £209,013.78. The supplier did not pay into the buy-out fund by 31 August 2018, or present Renewables Obligation…
Toto Energy acquires 43,000 Solarplicity customers UPDATED: Solarplicity ceases trading
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Energy supplier Solarplicity has ceased trading, becoming the 12th energy supplier to close its doors in the last two years. After selling most of its customers to Toto (see below) the energy supplier had only around 7,500 domestic customers and fewer…
Macquarie takes 40% of East Anglia ONE wind farm
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Macquarie’s Green Investment Group is set to take a 40% stake Scottish Power’s East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. GIG has secured debt financing from the market to assist in funding its investment. GIG said the acquisition means it and…
Simultaneous plant failures caused widespread power interruptions
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A large scale frequency drop after the near-simultaneous loss of two generating plant was the cause of last night’s power outages, as National Grid ESO cut demand in some areas to protect the system. Acccording to Energyst, New Power’s sister publication, RWE’s…
Cardiff supplier ceases trading
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Cardiff Energy Supply has ceased trading and SSE Energy Services has been chosen by Ofgem to take over its customers, which number fewer than 1000. Cardiff Energy Supply provided gas to 815 households and SSE said it would honour their credit balances.…