The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided heat networks should be regulated, and recommended that new powers be given to Ofgem to take on the role. Extending Ofgem’s remit to include heat networks would require new primary legislation to be…

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The offshore wind industry has warmly welcomed plans announced by the Department for Business, Industry and industrial Strategy that Contracts for Difference auctions will be held every two years for ‘less established’ technologies – largely offshore wind and wind farms…

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Consumers may have to pay for a bigger connection to the electricity network if they want to guarantee that they can charge vehicles at peak times. That could be one outcome of a planned review of network charging announced by…

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Foresight Group has acquired an operational anaerobic digestion plant on the Isle of Wight for an undisclosed sum. The Arreton site has a CHP plant providing 250kW of electrical power generation capacity to power the facility (and related waste heat…

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Construction is about to start on a 235MW onshore wind farm in central Sweden, financed via a 29-year fixed-volume power purchase agreement (PPA) with aluminium producer Norsk Hydro. Green Investment Group (GIG), the specialist green energy principal investment business of Macquarie Group, has…

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Eelpower  has acquired the recently-completed 20MW Rock Farm battery from Anesco.  Eelpower  also acquired two storage schemes that will be commissioned later this year – a 10MW scheme near Winchester and an 8MW scheme in Cumbria.  The company has plans to…

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Industry groups have called on the government and Ofgem to incentivise network companies to prioritise procuring flexibility services before they take traditional reinforcement measures.   The group call their approach to managing the electricity grid “Flexibility First” and have urged Ofgem to…

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Pivot Power has won planning permission to build a £25 million 20MW battery at Nursling electricity sub-station in Southampton. It is the first of 45 sites across the UK where the company intends to site  50MW batteries. Construction is expected to start around March…

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The government is “massively out of step” with most of the public when it stands in the way of building more wind farms, according to new polling for RenewableUK. In YouGov of 3,600 adults on 5-7 June, 66% said they would…

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