E.On has worked with UK home builder Cala Homes to pilot a live, locally controlled, smart electricity management system that maximises the collective self-consumption of on-site renewable generation and to ensure unused energy generated for homes can be used elsewhere,…
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Flexibility providers invited to use single tool to assess contribution – join launch webinar
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A new tool has been launched which helps flexibility providers follow a clear, common and more accurate approach for measuring how much flexibility they have delivered to Britain’s distribution network operators, the Energy Networks Association has announced. The tool was…
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Industrial sites to get tailored decarbonisation plans
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BEIS has contracted Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, as ‘engineering delivery partner’ to develop industrial decarbonisation roadmaps for 16 industrial sites across the UK as part of the Industry of the Future Programme. The company will help the…
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EDF begins preliminary work on 20-year life extension for Sizewell B
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EDF has begun work to extend the life of its Sizewell B nuclear power plant in Suffolk by 20 years to 2055. It has signed contracts with three contractors – Westinghouse, Jacobs and General Electric Company – to support the…
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Energy Security Strategy: the industry responds
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Dr Nina Skorupska CBE, Chief Executive, Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA): “The Energy Security Strategy is wholly inadequate. If ever there was a time for the government to be bold, this was it, but they have failed…
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UK energy security plan relies heavily on nuclear new-build
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A “significant acceleration of nuclear” is the centrepiece of a new British Energy Security Strategy, which aims for low carbon sources to provide 95% of electricity by 2030. But the security strategy disappointed those who hoped it would help consumers…
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BEIS sets out plans for Future System Operator
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The government has set out details of the planned new Future System Operator (FSO) that will undertake day-to-day operation of the electricity system operator and have a beefed up role in planning the electricity system and facilitating competition. It also…
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How inflexible fossil plant drives up energy costs – and how consumers can help
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An investigation now under way into how costs in the Balancing Market for electricity have been spiking reveals how inflexible fossil fuel plants help to drive up costs. The Balancing Market applies after the gate closes on trades between electricity…
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Ecotricity founder puts company up for sale
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Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has decided to sell the company, saying on social media that the aim was to “clear the decks for some new frontiers” including a move into politics. He said on his ‘Carbonista’ podcast that he had…