Ofgem is issuing five suppliers with provisional orders, compelling them to pay £575,000 in total for the Feed-in Tariff scheme, which provides payments to owners of small-scale renewable energy generators, and is funded through compulsory levies on suppliers. The suppliers…
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Consent granted for South Humber Bank plant
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Development consent has been granted for a 95MW electricity from waste plant at Stallingborough. The consent for EP Waste Management’s South Humber Bank plant replaces earlier consent granted for a 49.9MW plant at the site, without increasing the maximum fuel…
Invinity completes flow battery delivery to Oxford’s Energy Superhub, warns of supply chain concern into 2022
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Invinity Energy Systems says it has delivered its third and final storage cluster to ‘Energy Superhub Oxford’, one of three demonstrator projects part-funded by the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund that include rapid vehicle charging. The full system at…
Solar PV: 300MW-scale installations needed ‘in every local authority area’ and under-funded planning departments put all stakeholders at risk
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There must be the equivalent of a utility-scale PV installation in every local authority by 2050 to meet our Net Zero aim, and stronger policy support is needed to achieve that target, according to speakers at an event organised by…
Utility Warehouse to make redress of £1.5M for customer service and support failings
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Utility Warehouse is to pay £1.5 million in redress after it failed to treat its customers fairly and to offer services and support to those in payment difficulty. A formal investigation by Ofgem found that between 2013 and 2019 Utility…
Rolls Royce ‘small modular’ nuclear plant wins £210M government investment
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The government has announced funding of £210 million for Rolls-Royce to develop new nuclear technology – part of the £385 million Advanced Nuclear Fund announced last year in the 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. Rolls-Royce Group, BNF…
INTERVIEW: Robert Ogden, chief executive, Renewable Exchange, on trading costs and the importance of machine-readable data
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In September, community energy company Egni Co-op caused a stir when it actioned new power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 25 solar farms simultaneously, using Renewable Exchange’s online platform. In October, PPAs for 157MW of renewable power were successfully executed through…
ITM Power names new site, plans collaboration with Sheffield University
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ITM Power will site its new ‘gigafactory’ in Tinsley, Sheffield, on a site acquired from the University of Sheffield at a cost of £13.4 million. The site is part of the University of Sheffield Innovation District, 2 miles from ITM’s…
Yü Group adds 38% to meter base as SOLR for Ampoweruk customers
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Multi-utility business supplier Yü Group has been appointed by Ofgem as Supplier of Last Resort (SOLR) for 8,158 businesses supplied by Ampoweruk, which has ceased trading. Yü Group sells water as well as gas and electricity to its customers. Ampower’s…
On-street EV charger installer Connected Kerb targetting 5k installs by end 2022, 190k by end 2030
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Drivers without off-street parking represent just 9% of EV users. But EV charger company Connected Kerb says that after having installed 1,000 chargers in 2021 it expects to have 5,500 installed across the UK by the end of 2022, with…