In 2018/19 National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) allowed about 12.25t of a gas called sulphur hexafluoride to leak from its system. That may sound like a small amount, but it’s importance to managing greenhoue gas emissions is tens of thousands…
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INTERVIEW: Doug Stewart, Green Energy UK
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Janet Wood talks to Doug Stewart about false starts on time of use tariffs, real-world trials on vehicle to grid, the fallout from Covid and why Ofgem’s plan to give customers back their credit balances is not about managing seasonality …
Power Responsive Report: Stacking revenues from Balancing and Frequency Markets will be “game changing” for batteries, says NGESO
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NGESO wants to nearly triple procurement of frequency response in its new Dynamic Containment product, up to 1400 MW in 2021, but so far providers have fallen short of meeting the system operator’s current 500MW target. In its annual ‘Power…
Planning for Net Zero: developers ‘must think about their offer to local communities’
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REPORT: “The transition to Net Zero is asking a huge amount from local communities; more than we have ever asked of them before”. That was the warning from Phil Watson, strategic energy projects lead at Suffolk County Council, in a…
INTERVIEW: Beverley Gower-Jones, managing partner, Clean Growth Fund
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Beverley Gower-Jones has a good record in picking innovation. That is why after 15 years at the helm of Carbon Limiting Technologies, which included managing the government’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund, she is now managing partner at the Clean Growth Fund. Her…
Longread: take a deep dive into offshore cable risks
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Our expanding electricity network – and its expanding pool of owners – has raised new questions about how to allocate and manage risk relating to the cables on which the system depends. New Power took a deep dive into cable…
From the archive: OFTO performance examined
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In February 2017 New Power looked at early perfomance of Ofto connections. As Ofgem prepares to announce a shortlist of bidders to take ownership of the Burbo Bank Extension connection, Janet Wood takes a look at what the new owner can…
Local power, local price?
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In an article first published in the January 2018 issue of New Power Report, Janet Wood looked at how locally electricity should be priced. Three years on, and given NGESO’s need to manage rising constraint costs, is it time to…
NGESO ready to pay for ‘circuit breaker’ assets to reduce mounting constraint costs, BEIS considering options for long term storage
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NGESO wants industry input on how to manage a fast-growing element of electricity costs: constraint paymenst that arise because the network is limited in how much power can be transferred. These ‘constraint’ costs now represent around 40% of so-called ‘use…
Repowering wind and solar: are open-ended grid connections anti-competitive?
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Are landowners who want to get a better deal from hosting renewables stuck in a ‘power export’ trap? Politicians and energy industry commentators are both saying the same thing: the UK needs more wind power. And although offshore projects…