Nordic transmission networks have made preparations to support the network operators in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which are currently closely linked to Russian grids, in the event of an emergency. Last week chief executives from Energinet, Fingrid, Statnett and Svenska…
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Consent granted for 1700MW of capacity at two East Anglia offshore wind farms
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Scottish Power Renewables is celebrating development consent for two major wind farms off the Suffolk coast. Decisions on East Anglia One North (800MW) and East Anglia Two (900MW) had been due on 6 January. In a blog on the consent…
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New funding for MeyGen tidal turbine
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Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) has been granted a non-convertible loan of £2.5 million from Scottish Enterprise, which will allow it to redeploy two more turbines at the MeyGen site in May 2022 and March 2023. This follows the successful deployment…
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Wind and battery owners sign up to reduce costs of managing congested Scotland/England network
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System operator NGESO has announced contracts with companies that operate windfarms and batteries to maximise renewable generation on the system and reduce constraint costs across the key cable (B6) on the English/Scottish border. Currently, the main mechanism to manage the…
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GE and Uniper assess options for high-hydrogen fuel mix at Grain CCGT
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Uniper and GE have begun a ‘hydrogen readiness assessment’ at Uniper’s Grain power station in Kent. GE’s assessment aims to find out how the 1,365MW CCGT could incorporate blends of hydrogen up to 40% by volume in its gas feedstock.…
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Limejump adds new batteries to dynamic containment offering
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Shell’s Limejump tech platform has entered a commercial partnership with SSDC Opium Power to optimise and manage 90MW of battery storage across two sites – at Fareham in Hampshire and Fideoak Mill, near Taunton in Somerset. Fareham is the UK’s…
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INTERVIEW: Moving in and moving on: Matthew Mendes discusses Pulse Clean Energy’s launch
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Pulse Clean Energy created a stir when it announced plans to convert nine diesel engine sites to battery storage. The company’s switch illustrates how far ancillary markets have come in becoming comfortable for investors. Janet Wood spoke to chief executive…
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REPORT: Wild fire caused European ‘grid split’ event in July; small plant trips made it worse
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An estimated 3.8GW of medium and small scale generation automatically disconnected from the grid in Spain and Portugal during an incident on 24 July last year when parts of the synchronised European grid split briefly, according to a new report…
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Clean Growth Fund reaches £100M target commitments
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The Clean Growth Fund says it has closed its first fund with £101 million in capital commitments. The latest commitments, totalling £31 million, are from the Merseyside and South Yorkshire local authority pension funds, Queens’ College Cambridge and Aviva Investors,…