Apatura has received planning consent for a 40MW/80MWh battery at the village of Eaglesham in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. The eight-acre Glasgow Road site brings Apatura’s consented battery portfolio to eight, totaling 1.5GW, all of which has received planning consent in…
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Great British Nuclear to open tender for owner’s engineers for SMR projects
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Great British Nuclear (GBN) has published pre tender details for up to two Owner’s Engineers (OEs) as part of its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programme. The OE will support the deployment of first-of-a-kind SMR technology in the UK and facilitate…
Noriker Power and Triple Point to invest £15M in batteries
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Investment manager Triple Point and energy developer Noriker Power have today announced a £15 million debt facility to support the development of batteries across the UK and Republic of Ireland. The funding will support Noriker Power’s advanced development pipeline, including…
New Greenlink interconnector transferring power across the Irish Sea
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Power transfers have begun via Greenlink interconnector, a new 504MW link between UK and the Republic of Ireland. The interconnector connects into the electricity transmission networks of National Grid and EirGrid, and is operated by EirGrid. The new 320kV interconnector…
Batteries support EV charging at Gatwick
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Gridserve and UK Power Networks have added batteries to Gridserve’s London Gatwick Electric Forecourt to support electric vehicle charging The two 3.6MW SYL batteries have been connected to UK Power Networks’ distribution network. The batteries can supply EV chargers from…
Ofgem probes offshore wind farm over potentially ‘excessive’ turn-down prices
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Ofgem is investigating Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) over prices it has offered to reduce generation when there is limited capacity to export to the grid, known as a constraint. In order to manage transmission constraints, system operator NESO uses the…
INTERVIEW: Matthew Knight, Siemens Energy, says no-one saves money by slowing a project down
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The UK’s plan to operate a clean power system by 2030 (dubbed CP2030) relies heavily on the supply chain. New Power spoke to Matthew Knight, head of policy and markets at Siemens Energy, about whether the UK is an attractive…
High density pumped storage project could use mine voids
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A high-density pumped storage power plant could be sited within a new mine in Anglesey. Anglesey Mining is developing a polymetallic underground mine at Parys Mountain south of the town of Amlwch in north east Anglesey, Wales – an area…
British Gas takes on 90k customers from failed supplier Rebel Energy
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Ofgem has appointed British Gas to take on supply for Rebel Energy’s 84,000 domestic customers and 6,000 non-domestic customers. The customers were switched to British Gas on Sunday 6 April. British Gas was appointed by Ofgem through its Supplier of…
Rampion 2 wind farm wins development consent
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The Rampion 2 offshore wind farm off the Sussex coast has been granted planning permission by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. The 1.2GW will wind farm will have 90 turbines. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said approval puts…