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Anesco and Green Hedge Energy team up to deliver four battery ‘barns’

by New Power • January 19, 2017 • 0 Comments

Energy efficiency specialist Anesco has joined forces with low carbon energy generation and storage company, Green Hedge Energy UK, to introduce Green Hedge’s ‘Energy Barns’ at four sites in England. Using lithium-ion batteries the barns will store energy then release…

by New Power • January 18, 2017 • 0 Comments

Angela Peart, chief executive at Utility People, says it’s time to prepare to attact a new generation to the energy industry My experience in finding talent for the utilities industry tells me that the pool of skill is declining…

by New Power • January 15, 2017 • 0 Comments

The UK is set for acquisitions in its pipeline of onshore wind farm projects, despite uncertainty over Brexit and the government’s lack of support for the technology. That’s the view of Falck Renewables chief executive Toni Volpe. He told New…

by New Power • January 12, 2017 • 0 Comments

National Grid’s System Operator (SO) role should be clearly separated from its other activities over the next two years and become a legally separated entity, with its own licence and a different incentive framework, by 2019, according to new proposals.…

by New Power • January 11, 2017 • 0 Comments

Global risks are dominated by the environment and climate change, and by the connected world and Internet of Things, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report, which also named inequality among the three major risks. The WEF…

by New Power • January 11, 2017 • 0 Comments

Falling temperatures, rising prices and increased volatility could combine this week to test energy suppliers’ hedging arrangements. The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for the remainder of the week, with snow and high winds expected to affect most…

by New Power • January 10, 2017 • 0 Comments

Mendip Green Party is offering a one-off payment for customers switching from any supplier using nuclear energy to Ecotricity or Good Energy. It has promised £20 to customers who switch a single fuel and £40 for a dual-fuel switch. The…

by New Power • January 8, 2017 • 0 Comments

National Grid expects to have to manage excess generation of 3-5GW during the summer of 2017 and has announced plans to procure more so-called ‘footroom’ services to soak up the power overspill. Services will include a major expansion of ‘Demand…

by New Power • January 5, 2017 • 1 Comment

The Internet of Things is coming and it could see traditional energy utilities’ business slip away. That was the message from a survey on the IoT published in the January issue of New Power Report. Utilities have to act now…