In 2018/19 National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) allowed about 12.25t of a gas called sulphur hexafluoride to leak from its system. That may sound like a small amount, but it’s importance to managing greenhoue gas emissions is tens of thousands…
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iGas joins with Engie to revive flagship Stoke-on Trent geothermal project
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iGas is looking at a number of strategic geothermal development locations including Newcastle, Crewe, and Southampton and is working at converting these into a development pipeline of projects, it has reported. The company completed acquisition of geothermal developer, GTE during 2020,…
INTERVIEW: Doug Stewart, Green Energy UK
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Janet Wood talks to Doug Stewart about false starts on time of use tariffs, real-world trials on vehicle to grid, the fallout from Covid and why Ofgem’s plan to give customers back their credit balances is not about managing seasonality …
Good Energy signals digital direction as MoneySupermarket CCO Nigel Pocklington takes over
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Juliet Davenport will be succeeded as chief executive of Good Energy Group by Nigel Pocklington, who has been chief commercial officer of Moneysupermarket.com since April 2019. Good Energy said he had, “Strong, relevant, and current commercial experience at a senior…
Over £1 million in UKRI funding awarded to nine energy data innovation projects
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UKRI has announced over £1 million of new funding across nine new digital energy data projects. The funding is being awarded through UKRI’s ‘Modernising Energy Data Applications (MEDA) phase 1’ competition. Urbantide leads a project on supporting fuel poor households with…
Northern Ireland system operator needs reform, says regulator: close tie to owner Eirgrid leaves customers out of pocket
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A poor governance structure at Northern Ireland’s electricity system operator (SONI) that leaves it closely managed by owner Eirgrid is potentially detrimental to consumers, with the potential for higher prices, favouring shareholders over consumers and blocking competition. Those fears were…
Gore Street storage fund raising cash to speed up acquisitions
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Gore Street Energy Storage Fund is set to acquire an 80MW energy storage project “ in the coming weeks” the company said, as it opened a new share issuing. The battery storage company said it had a development pipeline of 1.3GW of…
Power Responsive Report: Stacking revenues from Balancing and Frequency Markets will be “game changing” for batteries, says NGESO
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NGESO wants to nearly triple procurement of frequency response in its new Dynamic Containment product, up to 1400 MW in 2021, but so far providers have fallen short of meeting the system operator’s current 500MW target. In its annual ‘Power…
Launching ‘Buildings as a Grid’, Eaton says smart onsite power is key to buildings that support EV charging – and the wider grid
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‘Buildings as a Grid’ is the new keyline from power management company Eaton. It acquired EV charging company Green Motion in March and it and has launched a suite of hardware, software and services that enable building owners to step up…
NextEnergy claims record for UK’s largest solar farm at 75MWp
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Solar investor NextEnergy Capital Group has claimed the record for the largest solar farm constructed and energised in the UK with the 75MWp Llanwern farm. The £43M solar farm in Newport, Wales is one of two new subsidy-free solar farms brought…