Demand side flexibility (DSF) has been winning market share in National Grid ESO’s ancillary service markets, according to the Power Responsive annual report. Product evolution has seen some settle to ‘natural price points’, the system operator said, but it indicated…

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National Grid ESO wants to contract power operators who can offer so-called ‘SuperSEL’ (stable export limits) services to help it keep the grid stable at times of very low demand. It wants to know about plants’ reactive power, inertia and…

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Generating company InterGen has to pay £37,291,000 in restitution and fines after Ofgem found it had manipulated the power market during 2016. An Ofgem investigation found that InterGen made £12.8 million when its staff manipulated the market during four days…

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Zeigo has closed a £800,000 Seed Funding Round led by Naruhisa Nakagawa, founder of Caygan Capital. Zeigo is an energy tech platformthat connects corporate energy buyers (private and public sector) with renewable energy generators and suppliers.It allows customers to promptly…

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The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is preparing to set out advice to ministers on ensuring that rebuilding efforts after the CV-19 crisis support a ‘just transition’ towards Net Zero emissions and strengthen the UK’s preparedness for climate change. It will…

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North Wales tidal stream energy project, Morlais, has signed up three new turbine developers. French firms Sabella and HydroQuest, and  Spanish developer Magallanes, all aim to deploy devices on a commercial scale at the Crown Estate-designated zone off the coast of…

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National Grid ESO said that a ‘Negative Capacity Reserve’ was one option on the table to help manage expected prolonged periods of low demand over the summer due to Coronavirus measures. It asked industry members for their suggestions on new…

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The Environmental Audit Committee has launched a new inquiry, Technological Innovation and Climate Change,considering how British innovation could tackle climate change, and is inviting written evidence. The UK is expected to exceed the target set out in the third Carbon Budget…

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In the first week of the lockdown, a ‘collective’ of local energy enterprises mobilised £100,000 of Corona Crisis Funds to support those facing hardship in their communities. The community-owned enterprises were able to mobilise funds from by community-owned solar arrays quickly…

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Temporary power units that were earmarked for summer events like the Glastonbury festival have been offered ‘pro bono’ to power planned Covid-19 testing sites across the UK. But government would have to cover freight costs to move the units to…

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