The company building Hinkley Point C (Hinkley Point C), the new nuclear power station in Somerset, has ‘deficiencies’ in its supply chain arrangements and quality assurance and must make improvements, according to the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). The regulator…
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Fleet installations add hundreds of new EV charge-points
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Pod Point has installed 67 electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints for Skanska UK, one of the country’s leading contractors, at Skanska’s Hertfordshire head office. The installation should be scaled up to 243 chargepoints in the future. Skanska, which employs 6,000 people in…
MPs: government must pass a new Clean Air Act and restructure emissions legislation to tackle pollutants alongside carbon dioxide
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The UK needs a new Clean Air Act, unifying and updating air quality legislation on pollutants including sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen oxides after it withdraws from the EU, according to MPs. The MPs from four select committees…
Wind turbine supplier Gaia Wind in liquidation
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Gaia Wind, a Glasgow-based supplier of small scale wind turbines has gone into liquidation. The company announced that Michael Reid, Meston Reid & Co, Aberdeen was appointed provisional liquidator by the Court of Session in Edinburgh on 13 March. The…
Health clubs to add fast EV charging to the mix
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InstaVolt is rolling out rapid electric vehicle charging points to Bannatyne health clubs across the UK. The installation of more than 70 chargers is underway, with 56 already live, and the Bannatyne Group says more are likely to follow as EV sales…
Storage IPO aims to raise £100 million
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Storage-only fund Gore Street Capital has announced plans for an initial public offering, hoping to raise £100 million to invest in storage projects. It plans to use storage assets to ‘stack’ a number of different income streams with different counterparties,…
EUSkills warning: diverging policies may limit skilled staff movement within the UK
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Skills policies across the UK are fracturing, and “now pull in opposite directions across the four nations” according to a new report from Energy and Utility Skills. The group wants to convene a ‘Four Nations Advisory Group’ to develop equivalence, comparability and…
E.On to acquire Innogy in €20 billion acquisition and restructuring
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E.On in Germany has reached an agreement in principle to acquire RWE’s 76.8% stake in Innogy. In return, RWE will gain a 16.67% share in E.On. The complex deal, in which E.On will offer €36.76 per share plus dividends of €3.24…
Ofgem promises to get tough on networks as it consults on changes to price review framework
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Ofgem has “learned some valuable lessons” in the first RIIO-determined price control periods, it has admitted, as it opened a consultation on toughening up the regime for its next application from 2021. The RIIO methodology for setting prices was intended…
Central European clocks run slow under persistent frequency deviation
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UPDATE: On 8 March Entso-e reported that the deviations had ceased, but added: “This is a first step in the resolution of the issue. The second step is now to develop a plan for returning the missing energy to the…