RWE ‘on target’
Investment in offshore wind is “increasingly paying off,” Peter Terium, chief executive of RWE, said in an update on the company’s first-quarter results.
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SSE to close Ferrybridge
The two operating units at Ferrybridge coal-fired station will close next year, SSE said, announcing its results for the year to end March 2015.
MEPs back new controls for medium plants
Members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee have provided a “strong mandate” for negotiations on the planned “Medium Combustion Plant Directive” that would see emissions controls placed on plants with a thermal rating between 1MW an
Statoil focuses offshore for renewables
Norwegian upstream specialist Statoil has announced plans for a New Energy Solution business area, initially focusing on offshore wind.
ElecLink wins EU funding
ElecLink has won a grant of €1.7 million from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility intended to help move forward projects of common interest in energy infrastructure. The grant will cover half the cost of project studies.
Compromise agreed on ETS backloading
A new market stability reserve for the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will come into operation in 2019, in a compromise deal that should see legislation passed on the measure.
E.On launches pilot for smart pre-pay offering
E.On is trialling a “smart” pay as you go tariff for up to 30,000 customers who are currently on prepayment meters or pay on receipt of their bill.
Half-hourly settlement may be delayed
Electricity suppliers may be given more time to migrate business customers to billing on a half-hourly basis.
P2 review to set out fundamental changes for connecting to distribution networks
P2 is an uninformative name that covers a keystone of the electricity distribution system in Great Britain. It refers to the engineering standards that govern how connections can be made to the electricity distribution networks – a persistent bar
Mogg: EU market will be evolution, not revolution
News of a new electricity market design “put the fear of god into us” John Mogg (board member at the Agency for the Co-op of Energy Regulators, Acer, and non executive chairman at Ofgem) said at a recent European Energy Summit hosted by Platt’s.