Arlington Energy has announced that it has secured initial funding of £200 million to build energy storage and gas peaking assets.   The company said it has access to over 1GW of assets which will be developed and constructed over the next 1-3…

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Wardley Biogas is to construct a new plant at Wardley, Tyne & Wear, to  convert unwanted organic waste into green gas for use across the region’s heat, power and transport sectors. The £17 million project is supported by BioConstruct, a…

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Biogest has completed a 100% anaerobic digestion plant near Exeter, Devon, that can accept a variety of different grass-type feedstocks. The gas produced is being injected into the local gas grid. The plant can be operated with a variety of…

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Kincardine offshore windfarm (Kowl) has confirmed that its first turbine started generating power off the coast of Kincardineshire on 26 September. The turbine was assembled in Dundee before being moved and anchored in place and the team has also completed the…

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The Treasury wants to know how to encourage innovation in regulated utilities – electricity, gas, water and telecoms – and it has launched a consultation to ask for ideas. The consultation says, “When regulators were first set up, lowering costs…

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Plans for a Carbon Emissions Tax (CET) to take effect in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit were set out in Budget 2018. HM Treasury said the aim is to maintain a stable carbon price, provide stability for businesses and replace…

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Will Gardiner, chief executive, Drax Group: “I strongly support the Chancellor’s decision to strengthen the total carbon price until at least 2021 – it provides investors with certainty and is a critical factor in ensuring an end to the use…

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BEIS has opened a competition offering up to £18 million of grant funding for projects that will recover and make use of heat from industry. A study by Element Energy of eight industrial sectors found that in 2014 11TWh/year of industrial heat could…

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Energy management company Vertiv is to use Upside Energy’s cloud-based flexibility platform to allow UK customers with uninterrupted power systems (UPSs), to offer unutilised capacity to the electricity grid. Devrim Celal, chief executive of Upside Energy, said, “Customers invest in UPS…

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The UK’s second subsidy-free solar farm, and the first by a local authority using battery storage, has been completed by West Sussex County Council. Westhampnett solar farm near Chichester is the council’s second solar farm, built on a closed landfill next…

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