National Grid has placed too much weight on its ‘Gone Green’ Future Energy Scenario in the way it proposes to assess where the electricity network requires immediate reinforcement, regulator Ofgem said. It has asked the System Operator to look again…

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Bristol Energy is set to add a renewable tariff to its offering. The company has signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with a raft of local renewable energy sites and is looking for more. Managing director Peter Haigh told New Power…

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Ofgem has today launched its Future Insights programme with the first in a series of discussion papers exploring the transformation of the energy system over the coming decades. With the Future Insights programme, Ofgem is planning to develop a strategic…

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The Competition Markets Authority is seeking views on its plans to introduce a locational pricing system for transmission losses. In its investigation into the energy market published in June, the CMA found that the absence of locational pricing for transmission losses…

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The government should consider options to support the market for pumped storage hydro to provide the long-term confidence required by investors. The recommendation came in a new report by DNV GL, commissioned by Scottish Renewables, into the benefits of pumped storage hydro…

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WPD has won development consent to install a 132kV electric line of 28.6km, connecting the consented Brechfa Forest West wind farm to an existing overhead line near Llandyfaelog. Overhead line will be employed for 25.3km of the new link and…

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BayWa r.e. has signed 15-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) for five solar parks in southern England and Wales totalling 83MWp. The contractual partner is the energy trading company Neas Energy. All five solar parks have achieved 1.3 ROC accreditation .…

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Citizens Advice has welcomed prime minister Theresa May’s promise to “set the market right” in energy. Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: “The prime minister is right to call out businesses who are letting down their customers –…

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Plans  for a new hydro pumped storage plant making use of an abandoned opencast coal mine for its water storage took a step forward this week, when developers applied for an electricity generation licence. The planned Glen Muckloch plant, near Kirkconnel,…

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BayWa r.e. has sold its 29.7MW Fraisthorpe wind farm, near Bridlington to funds managed by the UK investment fund manager Octopus Investments. This is the fifth successful wind farm sale from the BayWa r.e. portfolio to take place in the…

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