E.On has worked with UK home builder Cala Homes to pilot a live, locally controlled, smart electricity management system that maximises the collective self-consumption of on-site renewable generation and to ensure unused energy generated for homes can be used elsewhere,…

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A new tool has been launched which helps flexibility providers follow a clear, common and more accurate approach for measuring how much flexibility they have delivered to Britain’s distribution network operators, the Energy Networks Association has announced. The tool was…

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BEIS has contracted Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, as ‘engineering delivery partner’ to develop industrial decarbonisation roadmaps for 16 industrial sites across the UK as part of the Industry of the Future Programme. The company will help the…

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EDF has begun work to extend the life of its Sizewell B nuclear power plant in Suffolk by 20 years to 2055. It has signed contracts with three contractors – Westinghouse, Jacobs and General Electric Company – to support the…

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Dr Nina Skorupska CBE, Chief Executive, Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA): “The Energy Security Strategy is wholly inadequate. If ever there was a time for the government to be bold, this was it, but they have failed…

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A “significant acceleration of nuclear” is the centrepiece of a new British Energy Security Strategy, which aims for low carbon sources to provide 95% of electricity by 2030. But the security strategy disappointed those who hoped it would help consumers…

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The government has set out details of the planned new Future System Operator (FSO) that will undertake day-to-day operation of the electricity system operator and have a beefed up role in planning the electricity system and facilitating competition. It also…

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Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has decided to sell the company, saying on social media that the aim was to “clear the decks for some new frontiers” including a move into politics. He said on his ‘Carbonista’ podcast that he had…

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Nordic transmission networks have made preparations to support the network operators in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which are currently closely linked to Russian grids, in the event of an emergency. Last week chief executives from Energinet, Fingrid, Statnett and Svenska…

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Scottish Power Renewables is celebrating development consent for two major wind farms off the Suffolk coast. Decisions on East Anglia One North (800MW) and East Anglia Two (900MW) had been due on 6 January. In a blog on the consent…

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