Grid constraints, the potential for marine renewables and community renewables, and the shift to zero-emission vehicles are among the areas wherethe National Infrastructure Commission Wales (NICW) is seeking evidence to develop its work programme for the coming year. Discussing the…
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CCC tender: what are the pathways for deep industrial decarbonisation?
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The Committee on Climate Change is seeking to understand how deep decarbonisation of industry could be achieved and it has published a tender for analysis ahead of its sixth Carbon Budget – the first to be produced with Net Zero…
E.On to merge NPower domestic operations to cut thousands of call centre jobs
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E.On has announced major changes to its UK operations that will move Npower’s residential and small and medium-size enterprise customers to be served by E.On UK on a shared IT platform. Npower’s industrial and commercial customers will continue to be served separately.…
New flow control will free 500MW of capacity on congested Scotland-England wires
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National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is set to boost transmission capability across three stressed areas without having to build more wires. Instead it will manage the flow. Together the three areas are expected to find 1.5GW of extra carrying capability,…
Balancing Market access set to widen
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The next two weeks should see direct access to the Balancing Market (BM) opened up for distributed generation, aggregators and consumers Legally, a modification to the Connection and Use of System (Cusc) rules, now agreed by Ofgem, will introduce the concept…
Rail pension fund buys Tralorg wind farm
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BayWa r.e. has sold its Tralorg wind farm in South Ayrshire to UK pension fund RPMI Railpen (Railpen). Tralorg is an eight-turbine wind farm 30km south of Ayr, Scotland, with an installed capacity of 18.8MW. The project is expected to…
Elexon proposes changes to streamline code change process
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Settlements company Elexon has proposed a suite of changes intended to speed up, simplify and reduce the cost and time burden of changing the rules governing the energy industry. Electricity and gas supply and delivery is governed under 11 codes…
Capacity Market ‘standstill’ payments short by £38 million
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The deadline for suppliers to make ‘standstill payments’ of Capacity Market (CM) levies covering the period while the market was suspended passed on 22 November with around £38 million still owed to the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC). LCCC had…
Corporate PPA funds new solar at Leicestershire brick manufacturer
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PV developer Lightsource BP is to construct a 4.9MWp solar installation at Ibstock Brick’s Leicestershire headquarters for leading brick manufacturer, Ibstock Brick. The site is fully funded by Lightsource BP and a power purchase agreement (PPA) will see electricity from the installation…
Ofgem decides against upgrade at St Fergus to safeguard gas transmission, says it is not needed with falling demand
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National Grid Gas Transmission (NGGT) and Ofgem remain at odds over whether to replace two compressor stations that help pump gas around the national transmission system, and who should bear the costs. NGGT thinks that if there is no upgrade…