The decarbonisation of heat will fragment the UK’s utility structure and throw up new challenges for regulation, suggests discussion at the British Institute for Energy Economics (BIEE) biannual research conference. A potential future emerged that would see households split between…
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Cable plough speeds undergrounding in chalk downs – film
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UK Power Networks has used a new cable plough at National Trust site Dunstable Downs to help replace overhead lines with underground cables. The remote-controlled cable plough means trenches do not have to be dug. It can install up to…
Contract win sees National Underground Assets Register enter ‘build’ phase
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1Spatial has won a contract to develop data transformation and data ingestion platform to allow hundreds of asset owners to upload and transform their underground asset datasets for GB’s planned National Underground Asset Register. This new digital map, produced by…
Co-op switches 25 solar PPAs on Renewable Exchange platform
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Renewable Exchange has announced that a renewable energy co-operative has used its platform to simultaneously tender and execute the power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 25 solar assets, including the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome in Newport. Renewable Exchange said the Egni…
ROC payments fall short by more than 10%
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By 1 September suppliers had presented 105,263,447 Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs), Ofgem reports. The volume represents a shortfall of more than 10% – 13,827,297 ROCs – against the obligation for the year of 119,090,744. The deadline to present ROCs was…
Two new gas-fired CHP plants totalling 45MW to have CO2 offtake contracts alongside PPAs
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London-listed investment company VH [Victory Hill] Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO) has announced plans to invest £78 million ‘net zero’ flexible power generation projects. It will fund construction of two combined heat and power plants, with a combined capacity of…
Aldersgate reports call for policy changes to decarbonise industry and cut industrial power prices
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The Aldersgate Group has called for a more detailed policy framework to drive low carbon investment in industry and published reports from Frontier Economics and University College London (UCL) backing up its call. The report from UCL on Delivering competitive…
Battery sites see capacities jump up
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Anesco has received approval from Brentwood Borough Council to develop a 50MW battery storage facility in Essex. The installation, on a 2Ha site adjacent to a 132kV substation, will comprise 28 battery container units and offer flexibility services to National…
Gridserve seeks feedback on Plymouth ‘electric forecourt’ proposal
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Gridserve has set out plans for an ‘electric forecourt’ electric vehicle charging site near Plymouth that will host 32 rapid and high-power chargers, and asked for comment on the plans before they are submitted for development consent. The company promised…
New National Energy Planning Statements aim for faster offshore wind consenting, networks undergrounded in national parks
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A new end-to-end process for how offshore wind is developed and connected, power lines undergrounded in areas of natural beauty and lower fugitive emissions from SF6 gases used in electricity networks are among the aims mentioned in BEIS’s review of…