Injecting renewable energy into the network is being delayed, and the cost reductions available from standardisation are not being realised, because networks’ technical requirements and processes vary. Early payments and capacity problems on the system are major barriers. Sound familiar?…
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From the archive: Cobalt, lithium, copper … is metal supply a barrier for renewables and batteries?
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Behind the steel and concrete, even the most familiar energy technologies rely on extracting metals to deliver high performance. Those metals can be expensive to source, globally concentrated and in growing demand by competing industries. Are they a risk factor?…
What’s our European nuclear future? Options on exiting Euratom
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Brexit is likely to be more disruptive to our existing nuclear fuel cycle businesses – and hence existing reactors – than our new-build programme An amendment to the Brexit bill that would see the UK retain its membership of…
GUEST BLOG: Big six suffer
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Ban Mac, Market Analyst at Elexon, examines the shift of customers from bigger electricity suppliers to smaller ones The Big Six energy companies in Great Britain are experiencing a difficult time lately. Elexon data show that from March 2016 to…
BayWa r.e wins Good Energy turbine management contract, seeks more
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BayWa r.e is to operate and maintain six solar farms owned by Good Energy. The solar farms have a combined capacity of 30 MW. They are: Carloggas, Cornwall – 8.30MW Woolbridge, Dorset – 4.99MW Creathorne, Cornwall – 1.84MW Rookwood, Wiltshire…
Ofgem cuts PPM price cap, saying Capacity Market and wholesale costs have fallen
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Just a week after British Gas announced a price hike for customers on its standard variable tariff, Ofgem has announced that the price cap for three million households on prepayment meters will be reduced from 1 October. The regulator said…
OPINION: The UK can make good use of its strong position in the EU ETS
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Mark Moriarty, chief operating officer at Commodity Management Services, argues that the UK’s large role in the EU ETS means it will still have influence in the bloc’s climate policy Brexit provides an opportunity for a re-examination of the UK’s…
Three companies on short list for wind farm links
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Ofgem has published shortlisted companies bidding for the right to own and operate cables linking offshore wind farms at Galloper and the Walnet Extension to the onshore network. The same bidders were named in both shortlists for the projects. They…
Storage ‘should be defined as load, not generation’
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Ofgem and BEIS have taken the wrong approach in defining storage as generation, according to Endeco chief executive Michael Phelan. In an interview with New Power Report Phelan said storage should have its own definition. But if it had to…
Hydrogen grid? Think about power – and gas – needs, says energy systems expert
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Providing consumers with low-carbon heat will require major change even if the solution keeps some part of the existing gas infrastructure, Jeff Douglas, strategy manager at the Energy Systems Catapult, told New Power. In a wide-ranging interview about the future…