Could Project Nexus finally have a reliable ‘go-live’ date? Plans to switch over to the new gas industry settlement system in June 2017 – delayed from April – “look feasible”, industry sources told New Power. Contingency plans could push that…
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Expert Forum: government must take the lead on resilience. What’s your opinion?
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One respondent to New Power’s latest Expert Forum survey, in which we asked about resilience issues, said: “Resilience issues for us are about data safety and communications. Very little else.” But few resilience risks can be considered in isolation. Who…
Risk vs reward: adding storage to a renewable energy site
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Is it a gamble to add storage to a renewable energy site? Louise Dalton, senior associate in the energy at law firm CMS, considers the legal position
Energy storage: legal and regulatory barriers to overcome
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Storage is increasingly seen as the answer to making the energy system more efficient and cost-effective. But legal and regulatory barriers are making it hard to make use of developing storage technologies at least cost. Louise Dalton, senior associate in the energy team at international law firm CMS, details the hurdles that have to be overcome before storage can step up
Bonfire of red tape ‘most damaging energy decision’
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Decisions taken in the government’s ‘bonfire of red tape’ have been more harmful to energy investment than any changes in renewable energy subsidy, according to key industry investor Siemens. Interviewing Matthew Knight, Siemens director of strategy and government affairs, GB…
Expert Forum: ‘GB power network must evolve. We need ISO and DSOs’
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EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH The GB’s high-voltage electricity network should have an independent system operator (ISO) instead of leaving the responsibility with a ring-fenced part of National Grid, says a large majority of New Power’s Expert Forum. The ISO model would provide…
Scottish Government ‘must act to reassure investors after wind farm decision’
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A Scottish legal decision that quashed the permits for four major offshore windfarms, including one – Neart na Gaoithe (NNG) – that had a Contract for Difference (CfD), is an immense problem for wind, infrastructure in general and the Scottish…
As hydro pumped storage hits a regulatory impasse, are batteries heading for a ‘bubble’
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Regulatory uncertainty is holding back a new generation of pumped hydro storage projects across the UK’s mountainous Celtic fringes, despite the growing need to balance variable output from renewable sources. A handful of large new-build projects are clamouring for greater…
Energy efficiency: how the NHS loses out – and what networks could do
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Joanne Wade, chief executive of the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE), says the NHS’s local management structure is raising its energy costs. In New Power‘s July issue, Wade talks about energy efficiency programmes that can be easily replicated:…
From New Power Report: So you want to be a CATO?
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Helen Miller and Deborah Greenwood discuss opportunities and obstacles in the new competitive transmission regime The government’s proposal to lift the restrictions on the ownership of onshore transmission assets and open up the market to competitively appointed transmission owners…