Companies who have new-build Capacity Market contracts have pleaded with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to extend special Covid arrangements that delayed the required completion date for the new assets. The companies said new plant that…

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New ‘smart’ relays on being installed by UKPower Networks on 80 transformers across 35 sites across Kent, Surrey and Sussex should allow additional plant to connect to the system.  The £932,000 project will see the devices installed between now and 2024. Traditionally,…

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EDF’s Hunterston B nuclear power plant has has the go-ahead from the Office for Nuclear Regulation to restart for a short period before closing for good. Both reactors won permission for a period of around six months. The remaining life…

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Good Energy lost 7.7% of its domestic customers in 2020, with numbers falling to  84.9k, although it saw a 1.1% rise in FIT customers to 47.1k. But its increasing focus on business customers bore fruit with a 12.3% increase in business supply…

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UPDATE: Drax has completed the acquisition of biomass producer Pinnacle. The company said that increasing self-supply and reducing biomass production costs would pave the way for it to deliver bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Beccs). It said, “By becoming…

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A planning application has been made for a 20MW electrolyser,  40MW solar farm and 50MW battery energy storage,  to be sited at ScottishPower Renewables’ Whitelee wind farm near Glasgow. ITM Power said that application had doubled the planned electrolyser scale capacity and…

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Electric vehicles will have a major impact upon real estate and sites that cannot accommodate the needs of EV users at sufficient scale will be less attractive to occupiers. That was the conclusion of a report on e-mobility from property company…

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EDF Energy has announced it will sell its only gas-fired power station,  the 1332MW CCGT at West Burton B, and a 49MW battery on teh same Nottinghamshire site, to institutional investor EIG. Headquartered in the USA, EIG specialises in private investments in…

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Gas used for power generation in GB is expected to fall by over 10% this summer, down from 97.3TWh last year to 82.7TWh, according to National Grid Gas’s annual Summer Outlook. The change  continues a downward trend that has seen gas…

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Siemens and  Drax Group have upgraded 30-year old switchgear at the  Cruachan pumped storage plant, including the UK’s first installation of circuit breakers that do not depend on sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) gas. SF6 gas has  been used in circuit breakers due to…

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