The most deprived households are switching energy supplier more often than some of their better-off neighbours, according to data from ElectraLink. The most switches had been initiated by the least-deprived households, the figures showed, but switching was fairly common behaviour…
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Moixa wins Gridshare funding – after learning lessons on recruiting customers
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Moixa has secured £267,750 from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund to expand its Gridshare platform to manage a wider range of third party home, electric vehicle and IoT batteries. Gridshare aggregates the capacity of…
EU settles future of Emissions Trading Scheme
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EU member states have reached a deal on the future if the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. The deal includes plans to double the so-called ‘Market Stability Reserve’, by which allowances are removed from the scheme in etc event of oversupply,…
Proposal floated for 360MW solar farm in Kent
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Wirsol Energy and Hive Energy have begun consulting on a solar farm that could reach 350MW in capacity and would cover an area of 365 Ha in northern Kent, the Guardian reports. The developers have written to local residents with…
SSE/Innogy retail merger likely to face competition test
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Consumer organisation Which? expressed concern after SSE and Innogy announced plans to spin off and merge their supply businesses. A new supply company will be created to include SSE’s domestic energy supply and services business in GB and Innogy’s Npower household…
Neart na Gaoithe gets new go-ahead from Supreme Court
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Mainstream Renewable Power has welcomed a decision by the Supreme Court that will clear the way for construction of the 450MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. The court rejected RSPB Scotland’s application for leave to appeal in its long-running challenge to…
Vattenfall set to enter GB networks business
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Vattenfall has launched an independent distributions business for GB. Vattenfall Networks was granted a licence on 1 November and is expected to begin operations in 2018. It will be headed by Stewart Dawson. The new unit Vattenfall IDNO, an Independent Distribution Network Operator,…
Elexon to offer ‘sandbox’ approach to bring on electricity market innovations
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Balancing and settlement company Elexon wants to set up a market ‘sandbox’ to allow companies to test innovative products or ideas for the electricity market. The idea follows Ofgem’s similar approach, which allows for a temporary derogation from existing rules,…
Barn Energy opens third Yorkshire hydro plant
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A new hydroelectric power plant will be officially opened today (Friday) by Geoffrey Boycott, the ex-Yorkshire and England cricketer. The 500kW Knottingley scheme, half a mile down the Aiire river from the Ferrybridge coal-fired power station has been developed by…
National Grid culls frequency response products
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National Grid has announced it will stop tendering four frequency response and two short term operating reserve (STOR) products, aiming to reduce complexity and help new providers enter the market. The System Operator will bring Enhanced Frequency Response, Rapid Frequency…