Ofgem wants answers from electricity system operator (SO) National Grid on why it spent more than three times its budget to procure additional contracts with -suppliers of a specialist network service – Black Start – for 2016/17.
The 40MW Brigg Renewable Energy Plant 40MW straw-fired biomass plant has opened in Lincolnshire.
The government’s latest review of support for anaerobic digestion (AD) and micro-CHP (combined heat and power) will make it “even harder to deploy viable AD plants”, according to the industry body the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Associa
Mothballed UK gas turbines could be exported to Africa, Silvia Stefini of GE’s Power Services business, told New Power. Exporting second-hand engines “gives some value to an asset they no longer use”, she said.
A Community Windpower windfarm in the Scottish borders will power half of Nestlé’s operations in the UK and Ireland when it is completed in 2017.
Former energy minister Charles Hendry has published a call for evidence on the feasibility and practicality of tidal lagoons in the UK.
Energy regulator Ofgem is planning to refine its ‘supplier of last resort’ arrangements – which take effect when an energy company fails – so that customers who are in credit with the failed supplier are less likely to lose their cash.
Ofgem has passed an investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by price comparison websites to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), because it found that its own staff had been in discussions with the websites.
The Scottish Government has made a £1.5 million grant to the Carbon Trust to support its Offshore Wind Accelerator research and design programme.
Set up in 2008, the Accelerator drives new technologies in the offshore wind sector.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has begun a £300,000 project to understand how new ‘energy vectors’ will affect energy systems.