Covid has reinforced the value of digitalisation in energy systems, according to a first report on the pandemic’s effect on Europe’s national energy systems produced by the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). It said in national regulatory authorities (NRAs)…
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INTERVIEW: Is electricity retail complicated? Farouk Alhassan says no: he wants to make it easy for suppliers and customers
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Janet Wood talks to Senapt’s Farouk Alhassan about dismantling preconceptions on electricity industry processes, changing the game on supplier platforms and his new ‘MyWatts’ website aimed at helping customers use their supply data Sometimes electricity industry members wonder why…
Managing is key: why EpCM is becoming an attractive alternative to EPC for waste to energy projects
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Paul Harmer, director, conventional generation, Black & Veatch Europe, explores an option that could give energy from waste developers more certainty in delivering their projects The UK’s pipeline of waste-to-energy projects is potentially very strong. “Energy from waste is…
The worst greenhouse gas: why the electricity industry has to grapple with SF6
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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…
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…