Jens Madrian spent many years at RWE, finally as chief financial officer at Npower. Now he has joined a ‘smart energy’ company, Reactive Technologies. In 2016 he spoke to Janet Wood about moving from a ‘big six’ company to a…
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From the archive: can the gas be used to aid decarbonisation? Some projects investigated
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Despite the carbon cost, use of the gas network is expanding. Proponents argue that it can be a low carbon bridge. In the September 2017 issue of New Power Report Janet Wood took a look at some projects Efforts to decarbonise the…
From the archive: how can we decarbonise heat?
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If the UK has made good progress in decarbonising the electricity system, the same cannot be said for heat. It is a bigger challenge and has been harder to tackle, but it is in the sights of the new Energy…
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Mick Farr, Triton Power: “National Grid’s reliability models could quickly become invalid” with the CM hiatus
Is V2G ready to move down the cost curve?
Unlink? Interconnectors after Brexit
Questions over gas network charging
New build supply chain: Gas OEMs facing up to a buyer’s market
Nick Ellins, Energy and Utility Skills: RIIO-2 must deliver skills resilience for energy
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What now for the Capacity Market?
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When the European Court of Justice set aside GB’s Capacity Market (CM) in November saying it was illegal state aid, it took the industry entirely by surprise. Even those who were aware that the hearing had taken place, back in…
The ABWR experience
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In October 2018 New Power took a look at the ABWR planned for Wylfa Download our article New Power October 2018 ABWR
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No-deal Brexit SIs leave power industry in ‘limbo’
Questions over funding for follow-up nuclear projects
European views on power capacity in the winter and beyond
Is the battery ecosystem evolving?
EXPERT PANEL: what’s the future for storage
From New Power Report: AMP invests in standby power
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Most of Aggregated Micro Power’s (AMP’s) business has in the past specialised in biomass boilers, and acquisitions in recent years enabled it to take charge of the supply chain for fuel, and to staff operation and maintenance for those plants.…
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RenewableUK’s Emma Pinchbeck
“How we define capacity and how we procure it is going to change”
Poyry’s Richard Sarsfield-Hall
“Grid scale batteries will be necessary for grid stability and voltage support but not as a major balancing system – your electric cars will do that”
Arlington Energy’s Terence Franka
“Battery economics are not as favourable as gas”
Prof Nick Eyres on launching CREDS
“They say you can’t change peoples’ behaviour, but it’s obvious nonsense, people change their behaviour all the time.”
PLUS
What do platforms mean for energy suppliers?
DCC faces its issues
Should we underwrite gas storage?
From the New Power archive: Simon Harrison discusses Future Power System Architecture and code governance
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As the Future Power System Architecture programme, backed by the IET and Catapult, reaches the end of five years, a look back at New Power’s September 2017 interview with the programme’s Simon Harrison. He talks about how code governance could…