The closure of the nuclear power plant at Dungeness B was a “crushing blow”, Jerry Haller, nuclear decommissioning director at EDF Energy, told the Parliamentary Accounts Committee last week in a session on the future of the UK’s AGR reactors,…
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Goldman Sachs to take power from three UK solar farms in virtual PPA
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Three solar farms in the UK will provide the power for a virtual corporate power purchase agreement (VPPA) between NextEnergy Capital and part of the Goldman Sachs Group. The three solar farms are all planned for delivery in 2023. Goldman…
BEIS acts to tighten UK supply chain requirements on CfDs and extend regime to floating wind
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Large floating wind projects will be required to submit Supply Chain Plans (SCPs) for projects above 300MW when applying for Contracts for Difference (CfDs), and all developers will have to score higher when submitting Supply Chain Plans to BEIS. The…
Stability markets to open to renewables and interconnectors as Grid Code change takes effect
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From today wind, wave and solar generators will be able to offer the kind of stability services which have traditionally been delivered by conventional generators. They can do this because a rule change takes effect that allows National Grid ESO…
Pulse Clean Energy to swap out diesel generation for battery storage on nine sites
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Pulse Clean Energy is decommissioning nine diesel generation sites and repurposing them as grid-scale battery storage assets. The changeout is part of its ambition to operate more than 1GW of energy storage assets across multiple markets. Pulse Clean Energy is…
Act by 18 March: Northern Powergrid offers income stream to NE businesses who can flex their power use
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Northern Powergrid has named 19 areas where it wants to pay customers to change their power generation or consumption patterns in a way that helps to manage peaks in generation and demand on the electricity network. It aims to procure…
Scottish Water adds battery to Perth waste water site PV array
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Scottish Water’s commercial subsidiary Scottish Water Horizons has completed work on a 800kWh battery to store energy generated from 1MW of solar panels, which have recently been installed at the waste water treatment works that serves the city of Perth.…
BEIS opens £5M ‘biomass to hydrogen with CCS’ competition – but should the UK rely on large scale biomass?
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The government has opened a £5 million call for tenders, looking for technologies which will enable the commercialisation and deployment of Hydrogen biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at scale. BEIS says the programme is looking for innovation…
Industry welcomes BEIS promise of annual CfD auctions
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From March 2023, allocation rounds for Contracts for Difference (CfDs) for new renewable generation will be every year, instead of every two years, BEIS has announced. CfDs are 15-year private law contracts between electricity generators and the government-owned Low Carbon…
SSE promises higher returns despite lower renewables and thermal generation
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In its half-year presentation in November SSE hailed its thermal plant portfolio as improving group earnings stability via capacity contracts, and providing a “natural hedge” against lower wind output or higher prices. That proved true in the nine months to…