The High Court has given permission for interconnector company Aquind to apply for judicial review of the decision of the Secretary of State to reject a Development Consent Order for its planned link with France. The Court has confirmed that…

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Rolls-Royce has said it will launch its first customer project featuring a hydrogen-based microgrid in 2024, after it announced plans to enter the hydrogen production market and acquired a majority stake in electrolysis stack specialist Hoeller Electrolyzer. The technology will…

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French renewables company Voltalia, which has 1.3GW of wind, solar, biomass and hydro in operation worldwide, is now selling power into the NGESO’s ancillary services markets with the help of tech platform Limejump. Voltalia is building a battery portfolio in…

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Energy Networks Association (ENA) has launched its annual flexibility consultation. It is seeking views by 12 September on • An overarching common framework for flexibility services • A common evaluation methodology to evaluate flexibility services • Procurement processes, aligning them…

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Octopus Energy Generation is partnering with turbine manufacturer EWT to repower up to 1,000 onshore UK wind turbines. In total there are around 9,000 onshore wind turbines. across England, Scotland and Wales Under Octopus and EWT’s plans, they will upgrade…

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AMTE Power has chosen Dundee as the site for a £160-190 million ‘megafactory’ to produce lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery cells for specialist markets. It described this as a “strong stepping stone towards building gigafactories in the future”. The Dundee factory,…

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Ofgem has selected 18 projects to receive Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) grants totalling around £8 million as they move forward to the next (‘alpha’) phase of development, out of 31 that requested funding. The SIF will fund five follow-on projects…

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NGESO bought power from the Europe on 20 July at a prices of over £9500 because of a combination of lack of capacity around London and high prices in Europe because of power outages there, the system operator said. In…

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“Ofgem has proved incompetent as the regulatory authority of the energy retail market over the last decade,” the BEIS Select Committee says in its report on Energy Pricing and the Future of the Energy Market. Ofgem “did not understand the…

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SSE has released pictures of foundations being developed for its Seagreen offshore wind farm. The £3 billion Seagreen will be Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm and the deepest in the world attached to the seabed, when it is completed in…

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