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First commercial contract for Piclo flexibility platform

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is to use Piclo’s software platform to trade electricity flexibility – the first commercial agreement between Piclo and a UK distribution network operator (DNO). SSEN will use Piclo’s  flexibility marketplace to buy smart energy…

Reactive Technologies wins Norwegian funding

Reactive Technologies has won funding from the venture arm of Equinor (the Norwegian energy company previously known as Statoil) as a strategic investor. This is the latest development in Reactive’s major Series C funding round after Ingenious joined existing investors Octopus…

Industry minister quits over no-deal Brexit fears

Industry minister Richard Harrington MP has resigned so that he can support efforts to avoid a no-deal Brexit. In his resignation letter, the now ex-minister said, the government was “playing roulette” with peoples’ lives and livelihoods. “The clear message I…

SSE to close one of four units at Fiddler’s Ferry

SSE is to close a 485MW coal-fired generating unit, one of four at its Fiddler’s Ferry site near Warrington, Cheshire. The closure will reduce the site capacity from 1995MW to 1510MW. But the site has only 1,455MW of booked Transmission Entry Capacity (i.e.…

Coal mine permit raises opposition

Cumbria County Council has granted planning approval to West Cumbria Mining (WCM) to develop  a new underground coal mine, located on a brownfield site, to the south west of Whitehaven in West Cumbria. The site will be known as Woodhouse…