Construction is about to start on a 235MW onshore wind farm in central Sweden, financed via a 29-year fixed-volume power purchase agreement (PPA) with aluminium producer Norsk Hydro. Green Investment Group (GIG), the specialist green energy principal investment business of Macquarie Group, has…
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Eelpower acquires Ludlow battery as it plans growth to 1GW
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Eelpower has acquired the recently-completed 20MW Rock Farm battery from Anesco. Eelpower also acquired two storage schemes that will be commissioned later this year – a 10MW scheme near Winchester and an 8MW scheme in Cumbria. The company has plans to…
Industry groups call for ‘flexibility first’ obligation on electricity networks
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Industry groups have called on the government and Ofgem to incentivise network companies to prioritise procuring flexibility services before they take traditional reinforcement measures. The group call their approach to managing the electricity grid “Flexibility First” and have urged Ofgem to…
Pivot Power wins permission for first battery
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Pivot Power has won planning permission to build a £25 million 20MW battery at Nursling electricity sub-station in Southampton. It is the first of 45 sites across the UK where the company intends to site 50MW batteries. Construction is expected to start around March…
Onshore wind poll finds widespread support for expansion
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The government is “massively out of step” with most of the public when it stands in the way of building more wind farms, according to new polling for RenewableUK. In YouGov of 3,600 adults on 5-7 June, 66% said they would…
End-users: what’s your view on demand-side response?
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National Grid’s Power Responsive initiative and the Energyst are looking for views from energy users for their 2018 report on battery storage and demand side response. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the challenges and opportunities from an…
National Grid Future Energy Scenarios: local generation and EVs can help decarbonise
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The UK will have much more power generating capacity in 2050 than in does today, up from 103GW to between 189GW and 286GW, National Grid says in its latest ‘Future Energy Scenarios’ document. The new capacity could be mainly be small, local…
System Operator: we are off-target for 2050 decarbonisation
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National Grid is working on the basis that the UK is not on a trajectory to meet its 2050 decarbonisation target. The assumption came in the System Operator’s annual Electricity Capacity Report, which assesses capacity needs four years ahead to set…
UK Power Reserve starts new gas engine procurement
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UK Power Reserve has begun the tendering process for supplying 200MW of gas reciprocating engines. The company won 200MW of contracts in the most recent Capacity Market auction, taking the company’s total portfolio to over 1GW. The company is now looking for engine suppliers with: • …
Nuclear: it’s about generations
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In the olden days (the 1990s), when I worked on Nuclear Engineering International magazine, I couldn’t see why a European utility would go to the trouble and capital outlay of building a nuclear plant. A gas turbine would go up…