Community energy groups are struggling to develop viable projects, groups involved in the sector have warned. In 2014, the government’s community energy strategy imagined that one million homes would be powered by community energy schemes by 2020, but only 67,000…

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ScottishPower has set out plans for £2 billion of investment in the UK in 2019.   Plans include a 50MW battery storage project at Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm, said to be  the first of a series of storage schemes. ScottishPower also plans to develop…

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Assel Valley Community Renewables Society is planning a share offer with the aim of raising £1,000,000  to enable people to own a stake in the Assel Valley wind farm near Girvan, in Ayrshire. Assel Valley is working with  social enterprise Energy4All to increase…

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BEIS has opened a competition for projects apply for £4.4 million in funding for smart energy projects. Applicants must develop and trial innovative products and services to deliver additional energy savings in homes through the use of smart meter data.…

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The European Commission has decided it must carry out an in-depth investigation to determine whether the Capacity Market scheme is in line with EU State Aid rules. The CM was suspended in November, when the European Court decided that in the original State Aid…

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UK Power Networks is committing £12 million in funding across 28 locations in southeast and east  England to start a new market for energy resources to sell flexibility services to network operators and lower costs to customers. The company will…

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Ofgem has rejected a modification to the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) under which the Capacity Market ‘supplier charge’ would be collected from customers on an interim basis, and held for potential distribution to CM contract holders, saying it does…

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Centrica has invested in two start-ups that it hopes will help develop new customer propositions that will also support the flexibility of the grid. It says the co-location of domestic battery storage alongside today’s solar installations alone could enable over…

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Calling your company ‘Energy Watchdog’ does not make you a consumer champion, the Advertising Standards Authority has told a company of that name, upholding a complaint about its advertising. It said that consumers visiting the company’s website, which describes renewable energy…

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Ashford Borough Council in Kent wants to build and run its own solar farm. Following advice from the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) the proposal is for a 9MWp project on a  50 acre site   purchased by the council in…

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