London Luton Airport (LLA) wants to reduce its carbon emissions and its reliance on the grid by building a solar farm within the airport boundary. It wants to generate at least 10GWh of electricity per year to cover a quarter…
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INTERVIEW: WEC’s Angela Wilkinson on the need for a ‘messy’ transition
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Angela Wilkinson, chief executive of the World Energy Council, says we need to encourage diverse approaches to the energy transition that bring many voices to the table – and we must learn from other energy transitions The energy transition has…
United Utilities plans 150MW of new renewables and storage by 2030
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United Utilities (UU) is working on plans to develop 150MW of new installed renewables capacity by 2030. It said the programme – described as an ‘initial step’ – could be a combination of solar, wind and batteries, helping to deliver…
Four smart tariff projects win DESNZ funding
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Four projects have won funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Alternative Energy Markets innovation programme. They are: Chameleon Alternative Market for Energy Assessment In this £497k project Chameleon Technology, Evergreen Energy, Green Energy (UK) Ltd, Solo…
Ofgem rejects £200M plan for backup gas transmission compressors, says planned units can cope
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Ofgem has rejected plans by National Grid Gas Transmission (NGGT) to replace ageing gas compressors at sites in the east of England, saying they will not be required when already-planned gas turbine units are installed. Ageing ‘Avon’ compressors, which have…
Ukraine celebrates new wind farm just 100km from front line
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DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, has officially opened a wind farm just 60 miles (100km) from the front line of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Phase I of the Tyligulska wind farm, in the Southern region of Mykolaiv, is already…
Torbay hospital wants 3.2MW of PV, seeks private wire site
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Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust are seeking a Power Purchase Agreement to provide Torbay hospital with 3.5GWh of electricity per annum through an off-site PV array via ‘private wire’ with a direct connection to the hospital’s HV network .…
Good Energy and Ovo Energy to pay £4M in refunds and redress
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Ovo Energy and Good Energy have each agreed customer refunds and compensation totalling around £2 million, after failings in applying correct tariffs. OVO Energy informed the regulator in November that it had applied incorrect tariffs to some customers. It has…
UK’s ‘political instability’ and ‘unattractive regulatory regime’ raise concerns over infrastructure investment
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The UK is becoming a less attractive destination for infrastructure investor funding, according to a regular survey published by the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA). The GIIA’s regular ‘Pulse’ survey said investment was becoming more difficult, with its investor members…
Three energy suppliers pay late compensation totalling £8M
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Three energy suppliers have made compensation payments and additional redress totalling over £8 milllion after they missed or unduly delayed Guaranteed Standards of Performance compensation payments due to consumers worth £6,305,925. Over 100,000 customers were affected by these issues at…