The government has announced a £300 million investment to support domestic production of specialist nuclear fuel that would be required for new type of nuclear power plants. The government says the UK would become the first country in Europe to…

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BT Group aims to repurpose up to 60,000 street cabinets that previously housed telecoms cabling as EV charging points and it has begun technical trials at a site in East Lothian. The two-year trial was first announced in July 2023.…

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UK Power Networks has begun to publish data on when and why distributed energy resources are ‘curtailed’ – ie, stopped from exporting to the grid. The company introduced flexible connections in 2014. They enabled renewable energy generators to connect to…

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Piclo and National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at simplifying access to local distribution flexibility markets for flexibility providers. From this month, more than 150 flex sellers with more than 60,000 assets registered on Piclo…

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Vattenfall is to sell the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone to RWE at an enterprise value of £963 million. The Norfolk Zone consists of three fully consented wind farms – Norfolk Boreas, Norfolk Vanguard West and Norfolk Vanguard East – and…

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Ørsted has decided to enter part of its Hornsea 3 wind farm, which already has a Contract for Difference (CfD), in the next CfD allocation round. The news came as the company announced that it had made a Final Investment…

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Four projects are today receiving a share of £4.8 million of government funding to develop technologies allow power to flow from electric vehicles (EVs) to buildings and to the electricity grid. The innovation builds on existing smart charging technologies, where…

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A new RenewableUK report says the UK’s pipeline of battery projects has increased by 68% in a year, up from 50.3GW a year ago to 84.8GW and newer projects are much larger than their predecessors. The EnergyPulse Energy Storage report…

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Bristol Airport has added 2.8 acres of solar PV to its renewable energy resource, adding 1.5GWh to its annual generation. On site renewable energy will now meet over 10% of the airport’s annual energy needs. Bristol Airport target is 25%…

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Infinis and waste management and recycling company FCC Environment have begun construction of a new solar farm sited on landfill in Boston, Lincolnshire. The solar farm is due to be energised in June 2024. Ethical Power is the principal contractor…

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