Pivot Power has won planning permission to build a £25 million 20MW battery at Nursling electricity sub-station in Southampton. It is the first of 45 sites across the UK where the company intends to site  50MW batteries. Construction is expected to start around March…

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The government is “massively out of step” with most of the public when it stands in the way of building more wind farms, according to new polling for RenewableUK. In YouGov of 3,600 adults on 5-7 June, 66% said they would…

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The UK will have much more power generating capacity in 2050 than in does today, up from 103GW to between 189GW and 286GW, National Grid says in its latest ‘Future Energy Scenarios’ document. The new capacity could be mainly be small, local…

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National Grid is working on the basis that the UK is not on a trajectory to meet its 2050 decarbonisation target. The assumption came in the System Operator’s annual Electricity Capacity Report, which assesses capacity needs four years ahead to set…

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UK Power Reserve has begun the tendering process for supplying 200MW of gas reciprocating engines.  The company won 200MW of contracts in the most recent Capacity Market auction, taking the company’s total portfolio to over 1GW. The company is now looking for  engine suppliers with:  •            …

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New market players aimed at encouraging switching are doing nothing to help build trust between the energy industry and consumers, according to Greg Jackson, founder of supplier Octopus Energy. “The current crop of auto switchers are just arbitraging loss-leading deals…

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The Capacity Market auction this year will source 46,300MW of capacity for delivery in 2022/23, energy minister Claire Perry has decided. National Grid’s analysis resulted in a total capacity target for the delivery year of 46,700MW. The minister set aside 400MW. The T-1 auction this…

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Next Energy Solar Fund (NESF), a specialist investment company for UK solar power plants, has acquired ten operating solar plants with a total installed capacity of 66.8MWp. All ten assets were connected to grid between 2012 and 2014 with subsidies,…

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The public and other stakeholders have been invited by Holyrood’s Economy, Jobs and Fair Work committee to give their views on the feasibility of a not-for-profit, publicly owned energy company. Issues being considered include whether such a company will reduce costs for…

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The government’s “Road to zero”, says that by 2030 at least half of new cars and 40% of new vans sold in the UK must be ultra low emission — defined as emitting less than 50g of carbon per kilometre…

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