National Grid’s electricity control room has introduced a new ‘Distributed Resource’ Desk to give instructions much faster to smaller generators, battery storage operators and demand side response providers. Staff on the Distributed Resource Desk focus entirely on optimising the use of…
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Open Networks: discuss the future on 1 February and respond to the consultation
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Energy networks expect a big increase in flexibility services markets in 2019, as distribution network operators include smart flexibility services as part of their day-to-day operations. The next steps in developing smart networks will be under discussion at a meeting on…
What’s your view of electric vehicles?
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What’s your view on electric vehicles? New Power’s sister publication The Energyst is asking readers for their views. Its wants to understand how public and private sector organisations perceive EVs, whether they are considering implementing charging infrastructure and what their attitudes are towards…
National Grid ESO asks for feedback on workplan – join stakeholder meeting on 22 January
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National Grid ESO wants input to its forward plan for the next two years, including metrics to measure its performance and its plans for stakeholder engagement. Among the issues to be addresses in the period are managing new system operability…
BEIS invites tenders for £20M grant pot to develop nuclear technologies
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BEIS has opened a competition for £20 million in grant funding for technologies used in new nuclear, focused on helping move towards demonstration and commercialisation. The fund builds on an initial £5 million award that has been running in a two-year…
Hitachi suspends UK nuclear programme, halts Horizon work at Wylfa Newydd and Oldbury
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Horizon Nuclear Power has suspended its UK nuclear development programme, which was to have seen a new plant built at Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey in North Wales, with a second to follow at Oldbury on Severn in South Gloucestershire. The…
UKERC: No-deal Brexit could raise power costs by £270m a year
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A no-deal Brexit that would decouple the GB electricity market from the EU’s market could carry a penalty for GB of £270 million a year by 2030, according to a paper from UKERC researchers Dr Joachim Geske, Professor Richard Green…
Act by 29 January: respond to consultation on BSC Capacity Market charging modification
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Industry participants have until 5pm on 29 January to respond to a Balancing and Settlement Code modification that would see Capacity Market payments collected from suppliers and held in anticipation of the market winning renewed State Aid clearance. Many suppliers…
Local planners should decide on composite storage and generation projects over 50MW, proposes BEIS
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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is consulting on updated planning rules for new energy schemes that combine energy storage with energy generation. At present, energy storage schemes under 50MW go through local planning, while those above…
Baywa.r.e brings O&M solar and wind contracts to 61MW
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BayWa r.e has won an operations and maintenance (O&M) contract for 13 UK solar farms on behalf of Octopus Investments. The company said the was a further strengthening of BayWa r.e.’s partnership with Octopus Investments, the largest non-utility investor in onshore…