Fracking will not be permitted in Wales, Lesley Griffiths, cabinet secretary for energy, planning and rural affairs in the Welsh Assembly has announced. In addition, she said no new petroleum extraction licences would be granted. Wales took over petroleum licensing powers…

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One Select, an energy supplier with about 36,000 domestic customers, has ceased to trade and has entered the ‘supplier of last resort’ process. Ofgem will choose a new supplier to take on One Select’s customers as quickly as possible. This supplier…

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Ofgem has published new guidance for companies who want to add storage to renewable energy installations that are supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) and feed-in tariff (FIT) schemes. Adding storage to such sites was not foreseen when the two…

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Energi Danmark has been fined for market manipulation on the Nordic wholesale electricity market The fine imposed on Energy Danmark is the result of an investigation started by the Danish Regulatory Authority for Energy and referred to the Danish State…

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Northern Powergrid will be seeking expressions of interest for flexibility services for next winter. Initial information was presented at a stakeholder group and it expects to announce dates for the tender shortly. It will be seeking around 14MW of response…

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ENCS, the European Network of Cyber Security, and E.DSO, the European Distribution System Operators’ Association for Smart Grids, have announced the launch of cyber-security requirements for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. The standard is the first in a series of security standards…

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British start up Myenergi has launched ‘Zappi’, a  range of smart electric vehicle chargers intended to allow consumers to use green energy sources for transport. The EV chargers combine self-generated domestic energy with green energy from Octopus Energy. There are larger…

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Market participants who want to arrange energy trades with or to EU member states will have to register with those states’ national regulators in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, Ofgem has confirmed – but they cannot act now…

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Drax and Iberdrola have agreed a risk sharing mechanism over £36 million in Capacity Market (CM) payments for 1 January 2019 to 30 September 2019, which are uncertain after the ECJ set aside the Capacity Market and halted payments. In…

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Energy suppliers who have met their Renewables Obligation (RO) will have to make quarterly payments to make up a multimillion pound shortfall, Ofgem has announced. Some 14 companies still owed £58.6 million in RO payments at the ‘late payments’ deadline of 31 October. Of…

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