Eelpower has commissioned its 10MW Leverton battery near Lincoln.  It is one of the  cohort of large batteries that will provide frequency response to National Grid with effect from 1 January.  The company  secured a Firm Frequency Response contract in…

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The UK Energy Research Centre has launched a £1.5m Whole Systems Networking Fund. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), this scheme aims to improve the diversity, communications and collaboration between whole systems energy researchers and those engaged…

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Kensington and Chelsea Council, Ovo and Ubitricity have signed a deal to allow more residents to charge their electric vehicles by plugging directly into Council lamp posts. The agreement will fast-track the installation of an extra 50 of Ubitricity’s electric vehicle…

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The most deprived households are switching energy supplier more often than some of their better-off neighbours, according to data from ElectraLink. The most switches had been initiated by the least-deprived households, the figures showed, but switching was fairly common behaviour…

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Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has said it will give a voluntary contribution of £65.1m to consumers, after a review of the company’s performance during Ofgem’s RIIO-T1 (electricity transmission) price control period. Ofgem said: “Network companies require a licence to operate,…

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Moixa has secured £267,750 from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund to expand its Gridshare platform to manage a wider range of third party home, electric vehicle and IoT batteries. Gridshare aggregates the capacity of…

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EU member states have reached a deal on the future if the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. The deal includes plans to double the so-called ‘Market Stability Reserve’, by which allowances are removed from the scheme in etc event of oversupply,…

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Wirsol Energy and Hive Energy have begun consulting on a solar farm that could reach 350MW in capacity and would cover an area of 365 Ha in northern Kent, the Guardian reports. The developers have written to local residents with…

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MHI Vestas Offshore Wind will repurpose a decommissioned, oil-fired power plant into a turbine painting and logistics facility. The new facility is the latest in a series of manufacturing investments made by MHI Vestas in the UK and will compliment the…

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A call for evidence on reducing the cost of energy has been launched by the government today, following the independent review by Dieter Helm. On 25 October, Professor Helm concluded his independent review which outlines recommendations on how to reduce…

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