Dee Nunn argues that government funding for wave and tidal energy development has leveraged private sector investment and created employment. Now a new joined-up funding approach is needed. As an island nation, the UK has some of the best wave…
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Are networks changing?
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Alastair Martin of Flexitricity sees a change in distribution network operators (DNOs): “the Low Carbon Networks Fund stimulated something really quite remarkable in the change of thinking of DNOs, and they are now out there with a strong appetite to…
We should act now to avoid a data gap in future
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Mike Rolls says we should think about the data that will be needed to understand energy consumption in a highly distributed, and partly off-grid, system Energy efficiency and encouraging decentralised low-carbon energy sources for heat and electricity are rising…
Infinis chief positive on UK’s climate agenda
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From New Power’s February interview with Infinis chief executive Eric Machiels: As we approach the general election Eric Machiels seems pessimistic about politicians’ announcements in the short term, saying “They have never sat in front of a board asking…
It’s time we made energy efficiency a national infrastructure priority
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As Derek Likorish approaches the end of more than six years as chair of the government’s Fuel Poverty Advisory Group for England, he finds time for some reflection on the past and thoughts on the future I took up…
Book review: Electricity Supply, The British Experiment, by David Porter
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Are ‘good intentions’ on energy enough? David Porter’s inside history of the privatisation and marketisation of the UK energy industry is required reading for anyone who has been in the industry over the years or who has a stake in…
Certify fossil power and let customers choose
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Jessica Lennard, head of corporate affairs at Ovo Energy, argues that true fuel mix disclosure – and customer choice – requires a new certification scheme for fossil power Much time is spent debating the optimum fuel mix at the generation…
Is there progress on energy infrastructure planning?
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Clare Hennessy, UK Technical Director at Parsons Brinckerhoff, finds the infrastructure planning regime a mixed success but welcomes recent changes. If I had a pound for every energy client I have worked with who has complained about changes to planning…
Storage or demand side response?
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Andrew Jones of S&C Electric suggests that both options will be required and says they should be a part of any grid development process Electricity storage and demand side response (DSR) are two of key technologies that are undergoing…
Energy innovation in the UK? Streamline funding to bridge the ‘Valley of Death’
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Paul Drummond argues that better co-ordination between research funders and the Green Investment Bank would help commericalise new technologies There are numerous governmental funds and initiatives in the UK with the objective of inducing low-carbon innovation in the energy system,…