Kiwi Power is working with the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London to trial a plan to help residents use less electricity, earn rewards and pave the way to a greener energy market. Greenwich Energy Hero is a 12-month trial…

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Ofgem is to revoke URE Energy’s licence to supply electricity after the supplier failed to meets its Renewables Obligation for 2017/18. It owed £209,013.78. The supplier did not pay into the buy-out fund by 31 August 2018, or present Renewables Obligation…

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Energy supplier Solarplicity has ceased trading, becoming the 12th energy supplier to close its doors in the last two years. After selling most of its customers to Toto (see below) the energy supplier had only around 7,500 domestic customers and fewer…

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Macquarie’s Green Investment Group is set to take  a 40% stake Scottish Power’s East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. GIG has secured debt financing from the market to assist in funding its investment. GIG said the acquisition means it and…

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A large scale frequency drop after the near-simultaneous loss of two generating plant was the cause of last night’s power outages, as National Grid ESO cut demand in some areas to protect the system. Acccording to Energyst, New Power’s sister publication, RWE’s…

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Cardiff Energy Supply has ceased trading and SSE Energy Services has been chosen by Ofgem to take over its customers, which number fewer than 1000. Cardiff Energy Supply provided gas to 815 households and SSE said it would honour their credit balances.…

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Anesco has agreed to give up half the demand capacity at its Larport battery storage facility in Herefordshire on winter evenings, in exchange for a reduction in the charge levied by WPD, the local distribution network operator (DNO). The battery…

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Onshore wind developers, trade bodies, investors and supply chain companies have called on new energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng to establish a new approach to onshore wind. The call, in an open letter, has been backed by  trade union Prospect, the National Farmers’ Union, the RSPB, the CBI, the Federation…

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Vulnerable energy customers could be £101 worse off by choosing ‘best buy’ energy deals from comparison sites, according to new research from energy auto-switching company Migrate. The company analysed the top 20 deals currently available and found that only three…

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National Grid ESO is to measure grid inertia across GB for the first time, using Reactive Technologies’ GridMetrix inertia measurement and analytics service, saying it was the first system operator in the world to adopt inertia measurement. It follows a successful innovation project.…

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