January news in brief
SSEN has applied to Ofgem for spending approval to reduce the visual impact of historic transmission infrastructure in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park.
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January people in power news
The new chair of Xoserve is Clare Spottiswoode. She was director general of Ofgas (Office of Gas Supply) between 1993 and 1998 during the liberalisation of the GB gas market.
Step by step: As an industry-owned ‘not for profit’ body, Elexon can be an enabler for change, its chief executive tells Janet Wood
Elexon is getting set to change the market so that customers can have more than one “supplier”.
UKERC: No-deal Brexit could raise power costs by £270m a year
A no-deal Brexit that would decouple the GB electricity market from the EU’s market could carry a penalty for GB of £270 million a year by 2030, according to a paper from UKERC researchers Dr Joachim Geske, Professor Richard Green and Dr Iain Staf
Retail: 11 companies out of the market as questions are asked over SOLR
One Select, an energy supplier with about 36,000 domestic customers, is the latest to cease to trade, bringing the number of suppliers exiting the market to 11 (in bold below).
Starting up the Northern Powerhouse?
The north is the “energy powerhouse of the UK”, Lord Hutton told Northern PowerGrid stakeholders at a recent meeting.
Questions over funding for follow-up nuclear projects
What is the value of the UK nuclear industry?
No-deal Brexit SIs leave power industry in ‘limbo’
Concerned energy industry members say statutory Instruments (SIs) laid before Parliament by BEIS this week have gaps and inconsistencies and could leave companies in “limbo”.
Co-located storage can access capacity market
Ofgem has published updated guidance for companies that want to add storage to renewable energy installations that are supported under the Renewables Obligation (RO) and feed-in tariff (FIT) schemes.
VPI proposes BSC option to collect CM payments
Capacity providers want more clarity on the future of the Capacity Market by the end of March, because that is when they have to inform National Grid ESO of their plans for the winter of 2019/20, so the System Operator can begin its annual forecas