Green Frog Connect has begun work on 40MW of gas-fired generation at the Swansea West site, adjacent to an existing 20MW diesel generation site which has been in use for the past five years. The 27 generators required by the…

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Aldersgate Group executive director Nick Molho:  “All the main parties have shown support during the General Election campaign for the UK to put in place an ambitious climate and environmental policy agenda and seize the industrial opportunities that this represents.…

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With subsidies disappearing, it’s been suggested that corporate PPAs signed directly between renewable energy plants and end users could keep the wind and solar pipeline moving. Three recent New Power interviewees weigh in…   Dan Wells, partner, Foresight: “For unsubsidised…

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A report published today shows that the UK can expand its world-beating offshore wind capacity to almost five times its current level by 2030, and that the nation has the most economically attractive offshore wind resources in Europe. The new…

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Data management between transmission and distribution network operators is the key to effective and secure functioning of the grid and increasing competition, says Eurelectric chief executive Christian Ruby With the energy transition, the customer moves centre stage. Active customers, increasing…

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Renault, Powervault and M&S Energy have teamed up to trial a home stationary energy battery storage system based on second life electric vehicle batteries. Powervault will install 50 trial units, powered by Renault’s second life batteries, in the homes of customers…

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A group of companies developing and operating distributed generation has called on Ofgem to delay its decision on making dramatic reductions in ‘embedded benefits’ for small-scale power plants. The decision is earmarked for 15 June. The Flexible Generation Group says…

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Generation from plants connected to local distribution networks and invisible to the System Operator, National Grid, grew by 6% in the year to Q1 2017, according to ElectraLink. The company said that much of the growth had come from renewable…

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Ofgem has rejected two claims for compensation for outages in subsea cables connecting offshore wind farms. Gwynt y Mor Ofto had claimed £10.3 million and Thanet Ofto Ltd had claimed £11.7 million. In both cases the cause of the outage…

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Full introduction of a new electricity balancing system  that will let National Grid make better use of demand-side response, small generators and new flexibility options has been delayed until at least 2018. When the software procurement was competed in 2010…

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