Brilliant Energy Supply Limited, an energy supplier with about 17,000 domestic customers, has ceased to trade. The company’s customers, which include some supplied under a ‘white label’ arrangement with Northumbria Energy, will now enter Ofgem’s ‘supplier of last resort’ process…
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Cornwall Insight predicts shortfall in RO funds will trigger mutualisation for 2018/19
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Energy retailers will be called on to top-up the Renewables Obligation (RO) for the second year in a row, Cornwall Insight has predicted, because the failure of more suppliers will mean necessary payments have not been made. Suppliers can make…
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Capacity Market: BEIS consults on T-3 auction in 2020 and entry for renewables
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BEIS is consulting further on changes to the Capacity Market that would enable wind and solar projects to be included, make changes in the way interconnectors participate, and prepare for a ‘T-3′ auction to be held in early 2020 –…
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Ofgem order: Avro Energy must join DCC or stop taking on customers
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Ofgem wants to stop Avro Energy from taking on new customers if it fails to become a smart meter Data Communications Company (DCC) user by the end of May. All suppliers were required to become DCC users by 25 November…
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BioSNG plant proposed to fuel transport fleet
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Progressive Energy has sought consent for a £150M biomass to BioSNG plant. The Protos plant is expected to start production in 2022 within the Energy Innovation District (EID) which brings together Cheshire & Warrington LEP, Cheshire West and Chester Council and the…
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Offshore wind sector deal: the industry responds
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Benj Sykes, co-chair of the Offshore Wind Industry Council and Ørsted UK country manager for offshore: “…offshore wind is set to take its place at the heart of our low-carbon, affordable and reliable electricity system of the future. “This relentlessly innovative…
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Next steps to the ‘internet of energy’: views sought on the smart grid’s Future Worlds
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What is the best way to deliver a ‘smart grid’ that accommodates responsive, decentralised and decarbonised electricity networks? The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has opened a major consultation on the future shape of the GB electricity networks and the next…
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Tempus launches judicial review: aims to force a halt to Capacity Market payments and agreements
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Tempus has launched legal action intended to force the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to cancel a planned Capacity Market auction that would ‘top up’ capacity levels for next year’s winter (so-called ‘T -1′ auction) and return…
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Legal & General takes stake in EV charge point operator Pod Point
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Legal & General Capital has taken a 13% stake in charge point operator Pod Point. Legal & General says electric vehicles “will be an integral part of delivering that clean environment and transforming the UK’s transport systems”. Estimates suggest that by…