Centrica has announced that the Rough offshore storage facility, the UK’s largest gas store, will not reopen. The site has reached the end of its life and in any case, its owner said, reopening the store would not be economic.…
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Ofgem to go ahead with Triad benefit cuts, plans three-year phase-in
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Ofgem has confirmed its ‘minded to’ proposal to reduce the ‘embedded benefit’ small electricity generators receive for producing electricity at peak times. The regulator said the payment cost customers around £370 million last year. Ofgem has decided to accept an…
Three more interconnectors to benefit from guaranteed return
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Ofgem is proposing that three more interconnectors benefit from its ‘cap and floor’ regime, under which consumers underwrite the project and profits are capped. The three projects, which together could add 4.2GW of new connection between GB and Europe, are…
Greencoat Renewables to raise €250M for Euro-zone wind and solar acquisitions
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Greencoat Renewables has announced plans for a stock market listing and capital raising of €250 million. The company, which acquired two operating Irish onshore wind farms totaling 137MW in March, wants to acquire further operating Irish wind farms. Longer term,…
RSPB Scotland to take offshore wind fight to Supreme Court
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RSPB Scotland’s challenge to new offshore wind farms in the Firth of Forth continues, after it decided to appeal a judgement that would reinstate development consent for the projects. Together the schemes represent generating capacity of 2.3GW. One of the…
Green Frog adds 40MW of gas engines to Swansea West site
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Green Frog Connect has begun work on 40MW of gas-fired generation at the Swansea West site, adjacent to an existing 20MW diesel generation site which has been in use for the past five years. The 27 generators required by the…
BLOG: ‘Cash for ash’ cloud over power-broker
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May’s electoral fiasco has thrust into unlikely prominence the politician at the centre of Northern Ireland’s ‘cash for ash’ debacle. Prime minister May’s parliamentary survival currently depends on the support of the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs who are…
Distributed generators say Ofgem Triad decision is ‘too soon’ after election, call for delay
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A group of companies developing and operating distributed generation has called on Ofgem to delay its decision on making dramatic reductions in ‘embedded benefits’ for small-scale power plants. The decision is earmarked for 15 June. The Flexible Generation Group says…
Data show rising contribution from embedded generation
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Generation from plants connected to local distribution networks and invisible to the System Operator, National Grid, grew by 6% in the year to Q1 2017, according to ElectraLink. The company said that much of the growth had come from renewable…
Ofgem rejects claim for compensation from two Oftos after cable defect outages
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Ofgem has rejected two claims for compensation for outages in subsea cables connecting offshore wind farms. Gwynt y Mor Ofto had claimed £10.3 million and Thanet Ofto Ltd had claimed £11.7 million. In both cases the cause of the outage…