Burbo Bank go-ahead
Dong Energy has announced it has taken a final decison to construct the Burbo Bank Extension located 8km off the coast in Liverpool Bay. The project has a "FID-enabling" Contract for Difference.
Dong Energy has announced it has taken a final decison to construct the Burbo Bank Extension located 8km off the coast in Liverpool Bay. The project has a "FID-enabling" Contract for Difference.
First Flight, the only offshore wind farm proposed for connection to Northern Ireland, has been cancelled. The project was under development by a consortium comprising Dong Energy, B9 Energy and RES Offshore.
Will old coal be phased out around 2023, as policymakers have assumed, or will it still be in operation? Work by Imperial College researchers, on behalf of WWF, suggests that the Capacity Market (CM) has little effect on that outcome.
E.On is to split its activities to create two companies, one in commodities and conventional power generation, which it will dispose of, and a second in regulated or quasi-regulated industries (including renewables) and energy retail.
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Using value of lost load (VoLL) to assess the economic fallout of supply interruptions could lead to “highly suspect” calculations well short of the true socio-economic cost.
The government is seeking to remove guarantees over the subsidy awarded to fossil plants that switch to burning biomass for all or part of their power.
Senior staff members at the energy industry’s settlements organisation Elexon have left the company.
The first auction round for renewable energy CfDs will be delayed, Decc has announced, because “at least one” company is appealing to Ofgem over National Grid’s decision that it does not qualify to join the auction.