Leaving the EU will give the government the full control of environmental policy for the first time in decades and the UK response should include a new waste and resource policy “which better suits the UK context”, according to a new…

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Ofgem wants to go ahead with plans to reduce the amount of financial benefits gained by so-called ‘embedded’ plant (small units attached to the distribution system) because they are not connected to the transmission system. In a ‘minded to’ position…

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VLC Energy has announced that two new battery projects will be connected to the grid by the end of 2017. The two energy storage plants – at Cleator in Cumbria and Glassenbury in Kent – were awarded contracts in National…

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As small-scale generators prepare for potentially big changes in their revenue from so-called ‘embedded benefits’, industrial and commercial customers who use backup generation to help provide demand response are also facing a financial challenge. Scottish Power has proposed tightening the…

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Some 7.7 million gas or electricity switches took place in 2016, according to new data from Ofgem. This is 1.7 million more switches than the previous year, a rise of 28%. This means switching rates last year reached their highest…

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“Security of supply should be the first and most important consideration in energy policy,” the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee says in its new report The Price of Power: Reforming the Electricity Market. The committee says “Intervention by successive governments…

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The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator has launched a new £2.4m project aiming to cut deep sea offshore wind costs by improving foundation design. The three-year project, called Improved Fatigue Life of Welded Jacket Connections (JaCo), aims to cut the cost of offshore…

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The ‘inertia’ that fossil fuel plants provide to the electricity system, which keeps the system in stable operation and allows it to ‘ride through’ disturbances, can largely be replicated by very fast response frequency control systems and synthetic inertia, according…

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Green Star Energy has launched a new ‘unlimited tariff’, as British Gas announced a new £100m customer reward programme. The new Green Star Unlimited 12M tariff, available only through comparison site comparethemarket.com until 5 March 2017, gives customers unlimited energy use…

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The Moyle Interconnector, the 500MW electrical link between Northern Ireland and Scotland, is  operating at a reduced capacity of 250MW. The fault occurred on Saturday 18 February when one cable tripped. Initial investigation has indicated that there is a cable…

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