The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has launched a consultation on how electricity distribution network operators (DNOs) should manage the ‘queue’ of distributed generation customers who want to connect to the network. The consultation sets out principles on which DNOs could…
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Jack of all trades: storage is being held back by its complex offering
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The story from new mechanisms like National Grid’s Demand Side Balancing Reserve and the Capacity Market are that they welcome bids from storage. But in practice, those mechanisms have largely incentivised traditional generation instead, some of it at small scale.
Fiddler’s Ferry gets stay of execution
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Three units at SSE’s Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired station will remain operable for another year and could be retained until 2017/18, SSE has announced. The stay of execution has come after one of the three remaining units won a one-year contract…
Power industry evolution: local energy v long distance transport
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed changes to the way transmission losses are charged among its recommendations to improve competition in the energy industry. The energy lost in transporting power from centralised generating plants to customers has been…
New Power Report: APRIL ISSUE PUBLISHED
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In this month’s issue:
INTERVIEW: Mary Teuton, VPI Immingham
“With National Grid we are always asking more questions and asking for more transparency. I sometimes wonder whether it is because we are a small independent.”
FEATURES
Offshore wind: on track for cost reduction targets
Making gas and electricity networks fit for the future
PLUS
Networks prepare for charging reviews
Consolidation ahead for code administrators
Competitively tendered assets ‘direction of travel’ for distribution networks
DATA: onshore wind races to meet RO deadline
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MPs and French unions seek answers on Hinkley Point C from secretary of state
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The chair of the Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change (ECCC) has written to secretary of state Amber Rudd to raise concerns about the delays in taking a Final Investment Decision on a new nuclear plant at Hinkley…
Coal generation: Longannet closes, Uskmouth re-opens
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Coal-fired power generation ends today in Scotland with the closure of Longannet power station, which is due to finish producing power at 3pm. At 2400MW, the plant – now owned by Scottish Power and ultimately Iberdrola – was Scotland’s biggest…
Nuclear regulator complains of delays and quality concerns as progress slows on Cumbria reactor plans
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The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) held a crunch meeting in January with senior management at Westinghouse, the company behind the nuclear reactor planned for Moorside in Cumbria, to address “delays and quality concerns” in its submissions to the reactor…
Good Energy targets five-fold increase in customer accounts by 2021
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Good Energy has announced plans to install new billing systems in 2016 and launch a new ‘green gas’ product in April. The company said it is targeting a five-fold increase in customer accounts to reach 900,000 at 31 December 2020,…
From New Power Report: Treasury plans reform of independent regulators
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Background on plans for Ofgem as announced in today’s budget. From New Power, January 2016 HM Treasury has signalled a shake-up among the UK’s independent regulators, with energy leading the way. The news came in a policy document titled “a…