Equitix takes on Thanet Ofto
Balfour Beatty has sold an 80% interest in the Thanet offshore transmission connection for £40 million.
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Solarcentury sells PV pipeline
Solarcentury has sold its 71MWp pipeline of solar PV projects to Magnetar Solar. It will also build an additional 40MWp of projects for the investor company.
South Hook on hold
Qatar Petroleum has announced plans to place development of a gas-fired CHP plant at the South Hook terminal on hold.
Plutus looks towards next capacity auction
Diesel farm investor Plutus has “recognised how valuable the [Capacity Market] auction is," company chairman Charles Tatnall told New Power. Tatnall said Plutus hopes to have at least 140MW of capacity to bid into the 2015 auction (for delivery i
Xoserve insists: Link on track for 1 Oct go-live
Xoserve chief executive Chris Murray has insisted that the organisation is on track to go live on a new software system that will manage data transfer and payments for participants in the industry on 1 October, despite fears raised just six months
CMA to probe codes and customer behaviour
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation into the energy market has swung partly away from examining the issues of wholesale markets and whether vertically integrated companies too much market power, to examine customer issues mor
Price freeze 'may drive out small suppliers'
Labour’s plans for a “freeze” on energy prices could put fast-growing new energy suppliers out of business, according to Professor Michael Pollitt.
MPs: networks are over-rewarded and should face tougher targets and more public scrutiny
Is there enough transparency in how network costs are determined, and is Ofgem scrutinising them effectively? And are network companies being over-rewarded for their activity?
Power system 'comfortably secure' even if coal plant is all retired by 2021, says report
Even in adverse market conditions the UK could shut down all its coal plant by 2023 and still “comfortably secure the system until such time as replacement capacity is commissioned”, according to a new report by Trilemma UK for the European Climat
Bio-power plants 'could be a renewables export opportunity for UK Plc'
Should the UK expand its focus from building a domestic wind industry to becoming a leader in other renewable energy projects? That was what Blair Lavoie, president of MWH Constructors, MWH Global suggested as the company hosted a visit by energy