Renewable Power Capital (RPC), has entered the battery storage market in Great Britain, working with Eelpower, the UK specialist battery storage company. The new joint venture will acquire, build and operate utility-scale storage projects and is targetting 1GW of storage,…

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UPDATE: the Capacity Market notice below, announced at 14.33, was cancelled at 15.05. NGESO has published a Capacity Market notice for 7pm this evening – a signal to the market that more power is required to maintain supply margins over…

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Octopus Hydrogen cancelled an order for a Membrane-Free Electrolyser from CPH2 and will use an an alternative electrolyser solution at its first site, which is expected to go live in the coming weeks, after CHP2 experienced manufacturing problems with its…

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Power costs at water company Severn Trent increased by 75% year on year in the six months to 30 September, it said in a trading statement today (22 November). But the company said the cost increase was “much less than…

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Frank Elsworth, head of UK onshore development, Vattenfall: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put pressure on energy markets across the world and we recognise that we have a role to play to help deal with the economic problems the…

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NTR Plc has acquired the Medebridge solar farm project. The 70MWp project in Essex is ready to build, with planning consent, grid connection and land agreements and it was acquired from REG Power Management and other shareholders. It is expected…

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Ofgem director of retail Neil Lawrence has written to energy suppliers to warn them over reports that customers had been remotely switched to pre-payment mode. Lawrence said “The cases shared are so concerning, and placed consumers at such risk, that…

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Feed In Tariff customers who were wrongly charged fees by two companies are to be refunded. Good Energy is to refund over £453,000 to customers whose Feed-In Tariff (FIT) it administers and pay them compensation of £200,000. The customers, who…

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“Ofgem’s failure to effectively regulate the energy supplier market has cost households an estimated £2.7 billion – £94 per household – and the cost will increase when the future of Bulb is settled, according to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).…

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Insulating the UK’s least energy efficient homes before 2030 could cut gas use by 384TWh for the following five years – three times the amount of gas (118TWh) that could be produced from newly approved North Sea fields over the…

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