In the July issueof New Power Report we spoke to two companies with new business models for domestic users. Instead of selling kWh they are offering consumer energy goods like PV and batteries alongside power management – not just for…
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Net zero: ‘no role’ for carbon tax but local energy planning could be key for heat futures
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The UK’s new ‘Net Zero’ target has “a wonderful simplicity … because we have to decarbonise everything. There are no excuses. You have to look at every sector and find out how we are going to get the carbon out…
Is it time to re-examine the regulatory model?
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With questions being asked over the UK’s infrastructure by the Treasury, green groups, the National Infrastructure Commission (NC) and citizens’ groups, pressure for public ownership from the Labour Party and calls for local authorities to have a bigger role, the…
OPINION: We must start preparing for net zero’s extreme power scenarios
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LCP’s Kyle Martin takes a look at some of the implications of the Climate Change Committee report for the power sector, published in the June issue of New Power Report Download full article New Power June 2019 LCP
Five gas-fired plants under examination at NIP
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National Infrastructure Planning currently has five new fossil fuel plants under examination. They are: EDF’s West Burton C plant, rated at 299MW, planned for the West Burton power station site. The application for development consent was submitted on 30 April 2019 and…
From the New Power archive: Removing the lithium barrier
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In the April issue of New Power Report we looked at one of the concerns regularly expressed regarding the switch to electricity – and batteries – to fuel cars and large-scale storage: the supply of lithium. Demand is expected to…
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Pumped storage: new opportunities
New products offered to manage constraint
Offshore wind project index
CfD successes and failures
Inside the ‘net zero’ target’
From New Power Report: UK100 and the zero carbon approach in local authorities
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Members of the UK100 network of local authorities have pledged to convert to using 100% green energy by 2050. Janet Wood spoke to the network’s director, Polly Billington, about taking a local approach to energy. Ofgem should have more‘sandboxes’ (projects…
From New Power Report’s archive: getting the most out of onshore wind farms
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In September 2016 New Power considered how onshore wind operators should think about the supposed ‘end-of-life’ for existing wind farms. Repowering windfarms with larger, more efficient turbines is a huge opportunity to improve plant economics. But in the current policy…
Reader question: Which monopoly activities in the energy sector are in line for most change?
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We asked five questions addressing how the public and private sector, and regional and national bodies, can work together to help the energy sector become more distributed, greener, smarter and more flexible. Why? Because utilities and utility regulation are facing…