European power exchange Epex Spot and National Grid Electricity System Operator are developing a platform to host a firm frequency response auction trial in GB next year. The frequency response auction trial will be run every week for service delivery…

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A three-year trial of commercial electric vehicles (EVs) has been given the green light by Ofgem. It will see up to 3,000 electric vehicles from Centrica, Uber and a large UK depot-based parcel carrier take to the road, supported by Scottish…

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New utility Social Energy says it is the first to win permission from National Grid ESO to aggregate domestic response, so it can be traded in the Balancing Market. The company plans to offer batteries to domestic customers and will…

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Infrastructure investors Equitix and Iona Capital have acquired a £72 million energy from waste (efw) facility in Bridgwater, Somerset. The 7.75MW facility will  process 100,000 tonnes of commercial and municipal refuse derived fuel (RDF) per annum, which would otherwise have…

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Ofgem has awarded £46.8m funding to four projects as part of the regulator’s 2018 Network Innovation Competitions. Each year network companies submit bids for funding to develop and test new technologies or approaches which could help to cut the costs…

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Up to eight bidders will be invited to tender for the right to own and operate links to offshore wind farms in future tenders, and the licence will run for 25 years (instead of 20 years), Ofgem has announced. The…

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Carbon capture and storage is in the spotlight today as the UK hosts a summit on carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). Government’s contribution was a CCUS Action Plan, intended to deploy CCUS at scale during the 2030s, ‘subject to the…

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Ofgem has appointed Ovo Energy to take over Spark Energy’s 290,000 customer accounts. Ovo said, “Through the purchase of the operating company we can ensure that Spark Energy will continue to serve customers through its existing team, with minimal disruption…

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Crown Estate Scotland has signed its first ever lease option to Pale Blue Dot for carbon dioxide (CO2) storage. Pale Blue Dot’s Acorn CCS project will use existing oil and gas assets on the Aberdeenshire coast to deliver large scale,…

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Pivot Power is to install a 2MW/2.5MWh battery at Arsenal’s Emirates stadium funded with investment from Downing LLP, and operate it for 15 years. A further 1MW/1.2MWh of storage to be added in summer 2019. The battery can store enough…

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