Energy company Equinor and technology company Hitachi Energy have signed a strategic collaboration agreement. It includes developing standardised base designs for transmission systems to connect offshore wind farms to the onshore grid, including high-voltage direct current (HVDC) versions. The two…

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GridBeyond has launched an energy trading and hedging service it claims can halve business energy costs. It says the new hedging service is part of a ‘whole of market’ offering to manage risk and optimise prices, alongside procurement and trading…

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Subsea cable suppler JDR has begun construction on a new factory near Blyth, Northumberland, which will be operational by 2024. The £130 million, 69,000m2 factory has been supported by the government as part of the BEIS Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment…

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A solar farm in Shropshire is now in community ownership with help from Triodos Bank UK. The 3.2MW solar farm in Sheriffhales was originally commissioned in 2016 by a commercial renewable energy company. In 2016 it was brought into part-community…

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Arenko has signed a second contract with Vattenfall. It will optimise a new 20MW/45.5MWh battery in Northumberland, co-located with a wind farm, which is expected to be energised later this year. Its first contract with Vattenfall, announced on 13 May,…

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The owner of the link connecting Humber Gateway offshore wind farm will not get credit for two periods when it was out of service because the company should have checked the settings on its equipment, according to Ofgem. So called…

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Energy supply for the Ukraine population is now a ‘battlefield’ in the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and we expect that to continue”, said Maksim Timchenko, chief executive of energy company DTeek, in an update. Although thermal generating capacity is still…

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UK-based battery developer Arlington Energy has been acquired by Abu Dhabhi’s Masdar, which said the acquisition will enable it to expand its presence in the UK and European renewable energy markets. Arlington Energy has taken over 170MW of assets through…

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Three more projects have been awarded seabed lease options by Crown Estate Scotland, bring to 20 the number of projects that have had option agreements confirmed under the ScotWind round. Together could bring forward capacity totalling 27.6GW. The additional projects…

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EDF Renewables UK has started construction of a new 50MW / 100MWh/ 2hr battery in Coventry replicating the company’s so-called Energy Superhub already operating in Oxford. The lithium-ion battery, delivered by Wärtsilä, will be directly connected to the high-voltage transmission…

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