Ofgem is investigating whether Utilita Energy broke rules around charging customers above the permitted level of the price cap for prepayment meter customers, between May and September 2019. The Prepayment Meter Price Cap came into force on 1 April 2017.…
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Gridserve delivers first ‘bifacial’ solar farm for Warrington Council
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Gridserve has announced the completion and handover of a 34.7MWp solar farm at York to Warrington Borough Council. The project uses a new commercial model with 30MWh of battery storage. Toddington Harper, chief executive and founder of Grideserve, said: “Projects like this,…
Rooftop PV installations set to hit 1 million in 2020
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Rooftop PV provides a fifth of the UK’s solar generation and the number of installations is set to pass 1 million in 2020, according to the Solar Trades Association. The STA said it expected a rise in installations this year…
Average home uses less electricity but gas reductions stall
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On average, consumer electricity use has fallen over the last two years, but a longstanding fall in gas usage hasstalled, new estimates from Ofgem reveal. The regulator has set out its ‘typical domestic consumption values’ (TDCVs), which are used in…
Flexitricity partners with Gresham House
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Flexitricity has partnered with Gresham House Energy Storage Fund to optimise the fund’s 20MW Noriker Staunch project, a mixture of gas generators and lithium ion battery storage based in Gloucester. The site will be optimised across frequency response services, traded in…
£10.5 million paid by RWE, Hornsea One, UKPN for August blackout
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Three companies have paid a total of £10.5 million into Ofgem’s redress fund after the regulator found failings during the blackout on 9 August. The regulator found that two large power stations, Hornsea One (co-owned by Orsted) and Little Barford…
RWE Generation acquires King’s Lynn CCGT
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RWE Generation has acquired the King’s Lynn CCGT in Norfolk from Centrica at a price of £105 million. The 382MW plant will receive capacity payments until 2035 on the basis of a 15-year contract starting in October 2020. It was…
Application window open for UKRI funding on communicating climate uncertainty
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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is inviting appications for funding opportunity through the UK Climate Resilience programme. It is seeking applications led from the arts and humanities disciplines and to include researchers from the natural, physical, engineering, health and…
Preferred bidder for Beatrice Ofto named
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Transmission Capital Partners (a consortium of Transmission Capital Partners Limited Partnership and infrastructure investors International Public Partnerships Limited) has been named preferred bidder to own and operate the connection to the Beatrice offshore wind farm, under an Offshore Transmission Owner…
Longannet site moves on from coal
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Plans to regenerate Longannet, site of Scotland’s last coal-fired power station, have been given the go ahead. Fife Council approved proposals for the land put forward by Scottish Enterprise, the national economic development agency. The planning application, for business and industrial…