National Grid has selected a 50/50 joint venture between Carillion and Eltel Networks, the Carillion Eltel JV, to construct a £38m, 400kV double circuit overhead line. The new line will run between National Grid’s existing Canterbury North 400kV substation and a new…
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Battery storage the big winner in sub-second frequency response tender
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National Grid has accepted eight bids for companies to provide so-called Enhanced Frequency Response, reacting in less than a second to help keep electricity flows in balance. The tender will see batteries used to balance at grid scale for the…
Government decisions putting future hydro investment at risk, says Scottish energy minister
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The UK Government must work closely with its Scottish counterpart to secure the future of the hydropower industry, according to the Scottish business, innovation and energy minister, Paul Wheelhouse. He said: “Hydro generation in 2015 was at a record high level…
Project Nexus remains at ‘red’ status with no certainty on go-live
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Efforts to get Project Nexus, the programme to replace the central settlement system for gas, back on track have struggled to turn the programme around and there is still “significant risk to go-live”, according to an August update. Project Nexus…
Four new suppliers join Warm Home Discount scheme
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Extra Energy has joined the Warm Home Discount scheme for 206-2017 after it its customer numbers reached the mandatory participation threshold. Our Power, GB Energy, and Bristol Energy have joined the scheme voluntarily. The news came as Ofgem E-Serve set the…
National Grid to bear £17.7 million of extra Black Start contract costs, £54 million can be recouped from customers
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Regulator Ofgem has said National Grid must bear £17.7 million of a £113 million bill it incurred procuring so-called ‘Black Start’ services. Within that bill customers will pay an additional £54 million, above budgetted costs, because Ofgem said National Grid…
Demand Side Response tender fails to bring forward offers for winter 2016/17
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National Grid is talking afresh to demand side balancing reserve (DSBR) providers about how they can respond to the need for peak services this winter, after it had ‘minimal’ response to its June tender for the service to be provided…
Removing carbon price floor would reduce imported energy by 39%, report finds
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Removing carbon price support after 2025 would reduce net interconnector inflows by around 39%, with France and Benelux seeing the biggest decrease, according to a new report by Aurora Energy Research. The report assessed the likely impact of removing carbon price support post-2025,…
GoCompare tool lets consumers calculate household energy use by the second
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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…
Energy storage firms need certainty on future frequency response capacity, SmartestEnergy says
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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…