A new microsite created by comparison website GoCompare gives users the chance to input the number of electrical devices being used throughout their home in order to calculate, in real time, how much money they are spending on energy by…

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SmartestEnergy has called for the National Grid to provide more certainty on future frequency response capacity in order to drive the emerging energy storage sector. SmartestEnergy consulted 45 battery storage innovators in the lead up to the first Enhanced Frequency…

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Rhyd-y-Groes Wind Farm has received planning consent from Anglesey County Council to be repowered. The current 24 turbine site, built off the north-west tip of Anglesey has been generating power for 24 years making it Wales’ oldest wind farm. Plans to replace…

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The Hornsea Two offshore wind farm has received development consent from business and energy secretary Greg Clark. When complete, the windfarm will provide up to 1,800MW  of low carbon electricity to around 1.8 million UK homes. The windfarm would create…

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Gas suppliers are investigating their consumer meters after E.On discovered that around 600 of its residential and small business customers have been incorrectly charged for gas, due to metric meters being incorrectly registered as imperial meters or vice versa. This…

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Macquarie Capital and Macquarie Commodities and Financial Markets have reached financial close on £900 million of funding for a 299MW biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plant on Teesside. Developed by MGT Power, Tees REP is claimed to be the world’s…

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Over 300,000 (333,653) people switched electricity supplier in July, which is a record high for July and a 22 per cent increase from July 2015. This brings the total number of electricity switches to over two and a half million…

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Ofgem gave notice today that a new competitive offshore transmission licence tender round will start on 10 October 2016. The bidding process – known as Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) Tender Round Five (TR5) – will decide who owns the transmission assets of the following projects: Dudgeon…

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There is little evidence that the development of a ‘large cluster’ for offshore wind staging and manufacturing activities would significantly reduce the marginal cost of energy from the UK’s offshore wind projects, compared with  supply chain development using existing port infrastructure. That’s one…

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Two unexploded devices, detected along the Rampion offshore cable route will be safely disposed of this week, E.On have confirmed. The company discovered the two devices, thought to date from WWII, in March during unexploded ordnance (UXO) surveys, which are undertaken as protocol…

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