The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide £500m to support a major reinforcement of the electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland to improve connections between wind, wave and tidal renewable energy schemes and the national power network.…
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Fiddler’s Ferry gets stay of execution
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Three units at SSE’s Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired station will remain operable for another year and could be retained until 2017/18, SSE has announced. The stay of execution has come after one of the three remaining units won a one-year contract…
Coal generation: Longannet closes, Uskmouth re-opens
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Coal-fired power generation ends today in Scotland with the closure of Longannet power station, which is due to finish producing power at 3pm. At 2400MW, the plant – now owned by Scottish Power and ultimately Iberdrola – was Scotland’s biggest…
National Grid pays out £3 million after failing to meet gas network repair targets
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National Grid has agreed with Ofgem to pay out £3 million to fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) after failing to meet the target for repairing non-urgent gas escapes on its gas distribution networks. Ofgem has also cut the…
Fund carbon capture and storage to keep heavy industry in Britain, Goverment told
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If the UK Government wants to retain industry, it must develop funding mechanisms for CCS as a top-up to the carbon price, according to a new report from Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS). Currently, industrial emitters can decarbonise at a low…
Scottish landlords offered interest free loans to insulate homes
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The Scottish government has offered a new £14 million interest-free loan fund to boost the energy efficiency of rented homes. For the first time, housing associations will be able to apply for loans from the government’s Home Energy Efficiency Programme Scotland…
Statoil launches Batwind battery storage for offshore wind
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Statoil today announced a new battery storage solution for offshore wind energy, dubbed Batwind. The concept will be piloted by the world’s first floating wind farm, the Hywind pilot park off the coast of Aberdeenshire, to help develop the technology…
Good Energy targets five-fold increase in customer accounts by 2021
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Good Energy has announced plans to install new billing systems in 2016 and launch a new ‘green gas’ product in April. The company said it is targeting a five-fold increase in customer accounts to reach 900,000 at 31 December 2020,…
Super fast 2MW battery energy storage system connected to the grid in Wolverhampton
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A new £4 million lithium titanate battery energy storage facility has been connected to the grid as part of new research led by the University of Sheffield on energy storage. The university will work with energy companies E.On and Uniper to look at future…
Scottish energy minister gives details of ten large-scale local energy projects funded by Scottish government fund
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The Scottish Government has awarded over £10 million to support nine innovative large-scale low carbon local energy projects, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing announced this week. The projects have been funded through the Local Energy Challenge Fund, launched in August 2014 to…