Happy Christmas to all our readers. To celebrate the start of 2020 we present 12 interviews previously only available to our subscribers. New Power Report subscription includes: Weekly email Update Monthly New Power Report – analysis and insight Access to…
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12 interviews of Christmas: Steve Shine, Anesco
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Happy Christmas to all our readers. To celebrate the start of 2020 we present 12 interviews previously only available to our subscribers. New Power Report subscription includes: Weekly email Update Monthly New Power Report – analysis and insight Access to…
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RWE Generation acquires King’s Lynn CCGT
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RWE Generation has acquired the King’s Lynn CCGT in Norfolk from Centrica at a price of £105 million. The 382MW plant will receive capacity payments until 2035 on the basis of a 15-year contract starting in October 2020. It was…
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12 interviews of Christmas: Polly Billington, UK100
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Happy Christmas to all our readers. To celebrate the start of 2020 we present 12 interviews previously only available to our subscribers. New Power Report subscription includes: Weekly email Update Monthly New Power Report – analysis and insight Access to…
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Application window open for UKRI funding on communicating climate uncertainty
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UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is inviting appications for funding opportunity through the UK Climate Resilience programme. It is seeking applications led from the arts and humanities disciplines and to include researchers from the natural, physical, engineering, health and…
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Preferred bidder for Beatrice Ofto named
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Transmission Capital Partners (a consortium of Transmission Capital Partners Limited Partnership and infrastructure investors International Public Partnerships Limited) has been named preferred bidder to own and operate the connection to the Beatrice offshore wind farm, under an Offshore Transmission Owner…
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Longannet site moves on from coal
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Plans to regenerate Longannet, site of Scotland’s last coal-fired power station, have been given the go ahead. Fife Council approved proposals for the land put forward by Scottish Enterprise, the national economic development agency. The planning application, for business and industrial…
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Breeze Energy ceases trading
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Breeze Energy, a gas and electricity supplier with just under 18,000 domestic customers is ceasing to trade. Customers will be transferred under the regulator’s ‘Supplier of last resort’ process to another supplier yet to be appointed. Philippa Pickford, Ofgem’s director…
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Market tweaks could release 1GW fast response batteries within a year, says Habitat Energy’s Ben Irons
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There is “at least 500MW and possibly as much as 1,000MW” fast response batteries that could be deployed within a year if National Grid ESO (NGESO) tweaked the rules for balancing the network, according to Habitat Energy’s co-founder Ben Irons. There is…