SSE customer loss slows, windfarms may beat deadline
SSE saw customer accounts fall by 90,000 over the three months to 30 June, its first quarter, the company announced in a trading update.
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Financing in place for Teesside
Macquarie Capital and Macquarie’s Commodities and Financial Markets group have agreed to support financing MGT Power’s £650 million Teesside Renewable Energy Plant.
Don’t expect electric vehicles to offer energy storage, says operator
Electric vehicles will never provide regular grid storage services, according to Erik Fairbairn, chief executive of Pod Point, which supplies and runs electric vehicle charging points.
Barriers to new plant: truck movements, negative gate fees and British Summer Time
Paul Cuttill, deputy chairman of advanced waste to energy developer Drenl, talked Janet Wood through some of the ‘post-planning’ issues to be solved in bringing a project from drawing board to operation
Offshore wind price ‘£100/MWh by 2020’
The cost of offshore wind is falling more rapidly than expected and it will continue to do so throughout the 2020s, according to a report from consultants BVG Associates produced for Statkraft. It listed the reasons:
New nuclear: Cumbrian plant overtakes Wylfa; Tier 1 contract discussions in sight
A new nuclear plant at NuGen’s Moorside site in Cumbria appears to have overtaken Wylfa Newydd, a planned replacement for the recently closed plant in Wales, potentially making Moorside the second nuclear plant to be built in the UK after Hinkley
SBR/DSBR needed to bring winter LOLE into line
The loss of load expectation (LOLE) in the coming winter would have been 8.9 hours/year – a margin of 1.2% – if National Grid had not procured backup supplies.
Industrial users ‘want zero carbon power sector’
Energy-intensive industries are relying on a decarbonised electricity supply industry to deliver at least a quarter of their planned emissions reduction, according to roadmaps produced with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) and th
Rudd: 'We have enough wind farms'
Plans to close the Renewables Obligation (RO) to wind projects in April 2016 will save the bill payer “hundreds of millions of pounds”, said secretary of state Amber Rudd when she announced the closure in June.
The New Power Interview: Sara Bell, chief executive, Tempus Energy
Tempus Energy is set to break the mould of energy supply companies. But as founder Sara Bell tells Janet Wood, that wasn't the original intention