Community energy groups are struggling to develop viable projects, groups involved in the sector have warned. In 2014, the government’s community energy strategy imagined that one million homes would be powered by community energy schemes by 2020, but only 67,000…
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ScottishPower sets out £2 billion in investment in 2019
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ScottishPower has set out plans for £2 billion of investment in the UK in 2019. Plans include a 50MW battery storage project at Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm, said to be the first of a series of storage schemes. ScottishPower also plans to develop…
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Community to be offered stake in Ayrshire wind farm
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Assel Valley Community Renewables Society is planning a share offer with the aim of raising £1,000,000 to enable people to own a stake in the Assel Valley wind farm near Girvan, in Ayrshire. Assel Valley is working with social enterprise Energy4All to increase…
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BEIS offers £4.4M funding to develop products that help smart meter owners cut power consumption
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BEIS has opened a competition for projects apply for £4.4 million in funding for smart energy projects. Applicants must develop and trial innovative products and services to deliver additional energy savings in homes through the use of smart meter data.…
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EC announces in-depth investigation into Capacity Market
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The European Commission has decided it must carry out an in-depth investigation to determine whether the Capacity Market scheme is in line with EU State Aid rules. The CM was suspended in November, when the European Court decided that in the original State Aid…
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OPINION: It’s time to act on decarbonising heat
by New Power •
The beginnings of work on RIIO 2 have rightly become the focus for some much-needed discussion about how the UK can decarbonise its heat industry – which for the majority of domestic customers means gas piped to the property.…
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Energy asset owners with 50kW of capacity: register by 12 March to join UKPN’s flexibility market
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UK Power Networks is committing £12 million in funding across 28 locations in southeast and east England to start a new market for energy resources to sell flexibility services to network operators and lower costs to customers. The company will…
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Ofgem rejects plan to collect Capacity Market payments during hiatus
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Ofgem has rejected a modification to the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) under which the Capacity Market ‘supplier charge’ would be collected from customers on an interim basis, and held for potential distribution to CM contract holders, saying it does…
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Centrica invests in home energy management startups
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Centrica has invested in two start-ups that it hopes will help develop new customer propositions that will also support the flexibility of the grid. It says the co-location of domestic battery storage alongside today’s solar installations alone could enable over…