Author Archive for New Power

Synchronous condensors: ready to roll out?

Janet Wood looks at a grid stability option and asks whether it might prompt an addition to the power sector’s expanding suite of investment asset classes   In the past, a gas turbine might have been thought more enticing to…

How new-build assets stack up against behaviour change is exactly the question we should be addressing in public planning

‘Relevant technical experts’ must respond this week to provide input to BEIS over how energy planning and national planning statements will take account of sustainability and the required Habitats Regulations Assessment. Six national planning statements that underpin planning decisions on energy assets were…