Offshore wind in the Celtic Sea could offer investment on a similar scale as the current ScotWind leasing round and should be taken forward to help maintain a UK pipeline of investment, according to Maf Smith, Director, Lumen Energy and Environment.…
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ABB invests in fuel cells for EV charging and data centres
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ABB has invested £3.25 million in fuel cell company AFC Energy to deliver a high power EV charging system utilising AFC Energy fuel cell technology later this year. The two companies have also announced plans to use the fuel cell…
When can we retire ‘demand’ and ‘supply’?
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Electricity and energy industry models are starting to diverge from the centrally dispatched model dominated by large generators, and demand side response – although often an opaque term to users – is becoming a familiar part of the landscape. Initiatives…
Shell to double electricity sales by 2030 and put Net Zero strategy to shareholders – but plans to expand gas business
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Shell is to ask its shareholders at its 18 May AGM to endorse an energy transition strategy that will see it set a Net Zero target by 2050 for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. It said, “the support of our shareholders is…
Capacity Market entrants want Covid derogations extended, fearing contract terminations over build delays
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Companies who have new-build Capacity Market contracts have pleaded with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to extend special Covid arrangements that delayed the required completion date for the new assets. The companies said new plant that…
Smart relays will release capacity for more connections in Kent, Surrey and Sussex
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New ‘smart’ relays on being installed by UKPower Networks on 80 transformers across 35 sites across Kent, Surrey and Sussex should allow additional plant to connect to the system. The £932,000 project will see the devices installed between now and 2024. Traditionally,…
Hunterston B wins permission for six month swan-song
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EDF’s Hunterston B nuclear power plant has has the go-ahead from the Office for Nuclear Regulation to restart for a short period before closing for good. Both reactors won permission for a period of around six months. The remaining life…
Good Energy loses domestic customers, gains business customers
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Good Energy lost 7.7% of its domestic customers in 2020, with numbers falling to 84.9k, although it saw a 1.1% rise in FIT customers to 47.1k. But its increasing focus on business customers bore fruit with a 12.3% increase in business supply…
UPDATED: US subsidiary hit by $2.5M emissions penalty as Drax presses ahead on global biomass growth plans
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UPDATE: Drax has completed the acquisition of biomass producer Pinnacle. The company said that increasing self-supply and reducing biomass production costs would pave the way for it to deliver bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Beccs). It said, “By becoming…
Whitelee to add green hydrogen, battery and solar farm to produce hydrogen for Glasgow City Council vehicles
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A planning application has been made for a 20MW electrolyser, 40MW solar farm and 50MW battery energy storage, to be sited at ScottishPower Renewables’ Whitelee wind farm near Glasgow. ITM Power said that application had doubled the planned electrolyser scale capacity and…