Despite announcements committing millions of pounds to green jobs initiatives, the government is yet to define what a ‘green job’ is, and how it will evaluate the perceived demand. Inconsistent government policy and a knowledge-gap in necessary skills are resulting…
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ACT NOW: consultation on re-coupling power trades with EU closes on Friday
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Electricity traders have told BEIS that they need to see a single electricity price to trade power efficiently across interconnectors with Europe, but two exchanges where power is traded, EPEX and NP, are now operating “fully separated” day-ahead markets, settling…
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Clean Growth Fund’s first investment is electric ‘drop in’ gas boiler replacement – new investor joins
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The Clean Growth Fund has made its first investment in low carbon heating, leading a £2.5m investment round in tepeo to support commercialisation of its ‘zero emission boiler’ for the domestic heating market The boiler, from Tepeo, is a drop-in…
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Real-time inertia measurement to help maintain grid stability
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Reactive Technologies and National Grid Electricity System Operator completed construction of a grid-scale ultracapacitor, which will provide instantaneous data on grid inertia to manage system stability instead of relying on estimates. Constructed by Spanish technology group Ingeteam, the ultracapacitor, located…
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Storage investor says volatile energy prices in September doubled revenues from fast-acting assets
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The recent volatile prices in the GB energy market nearly doubled expected revenues for some assets owned by energy storage investor Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) in September. In a later update the fund said the doubling was achieved…
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Data and computing demand raises interest for flexibility – and home heating
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Data centres have large power requirements but they could provide more flexibility than demand, according to a new study from BloombergNEF (BNEF) in partnership with Eaton and Statkraft. Large data centres in the UK, Germany, Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands…
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Temporary power supplier sees a boost in users replacing diesel with vegetable oil
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Temporary utilities equipment supplier Aggreko believes rising gas prices area factor, along with decarbonisation, in a surge in customers switching to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power their installations. The company said HVO use had grown rapidly from constituting a…
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Rolls Royce to offer 100% hydrogen gas engines from 2023
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Rolls-Royce has said it will launch versions of its gas engines that will run on 100% hydrogen in 2023, along with conversion kits for existing engines. The company referred to its ‘mtu’ gas engine portfolio, sized between 128kWe and 2.5MWe…
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ACT NOW; National Grid wants feedback this week on carbon dioxide pipeline proposals for the Humber
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National Grid is seeking responses this week to a consultation on proposals for a new onshore network of pipelines to transport captured carbon dioxide emissions from companies in the Humber region – the UK’s largest industrial cluster. The pipelines will…