Electricity North West has joined the Piclo Flex consortium. Piclo Flex is an online marketplace for DNOs that wish to procure demand-side flexibility to reduce congestion on the electricity grid. Electricity North West will add its areas of need onto Piclo Flex to signpost where they are looking for flexible services in the future.

A hydrogen car refuelling station has won planning consent in Abergavenny. The application came from Riversimple, a manufacturer of hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles.