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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Fourteen major renewable energy companies have written a joint letter to Greg Clark, secretary of state at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, asking him to give onshore wind an opportunity to take part in Contracts for Difference auctions. Developers ScottishPower Renewables, SSE,…

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National Grid Gas (NGG) has said it will consider introducing new products – and being stricter on users – to manage growing operability issues. NGG has to meet strict pressure limits on the National Transmission System and that is now…

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Faraday Grid is to partner with UK Power Networks to trial its autonomous, self-balancing network, which can be installed within an existing electricity grid. Comprising a network of independent Faraday Exchangers, it is designed to automatically smooth the intermittency and…

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National Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) is seeking comment on its funding model for the future. The ESO is being spun out of National Grid and will have a separate regulatory framework. Unlike the remaining pipes and wires business, the…

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EDF Energy has paved the way for its business customers to access additional revenue streams traditionally associated with generators and large suppliers, after signing a deal with Upside Energy. Through the partnership, Upside Energy’s cloud-based platform will be used alongside EDF…

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The head of Eurelectric, the lobby group for electricity utilities in Europe, has called on the UK and EU to reach a deal on Brexit to avoid rising power prices, security of supply issues, and disruption to global energy trades.…

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