The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership has begun two new studies to investigate critical issues for large scale floating wind farms. Commissioned by the Scottish Government and twelve industry partners – EnBW, ENGIE, Eolfi, E.ON, Iberdrola, innogy, Kyuden…
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Guide aims to bring energy network innovations to communities
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Local electricity network operators have released a guide to help communities to get involved with innovation projects to support a smarter, cleaner energy system. The guide is being published by Energy Networks Association and community energy expert Regen. The ‘Electricity…
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Northumbrian Water signs green power deal with Ørsted
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Northumbrian water is sourcing all its power from Ørsted in a new green electricity deal that started on 1 April. It is one of the biggest contracts the water company has ever awarded. Ørsted supplies renewable electricity from nine offshore wind farms…
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CBI: maintaining UK access to EU’s energy market benefits all sectors
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Changes to rules in the energy sector could have ramifications across the UK economy, according to business lobby group the CBI, so it is extremely important that it remains as close as possible to the EU. That contrasts with specific…
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Co-Operative Energy to acquire Flow Energy
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Flowgroup is to sell energy supply business Flow Energy to Co-Operative Energy for £9.25 million, saying planned price caps would make it less likely customers would switch supplier. In November the company decided to maintain customer levels below 250,000 so…
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How much cash would you need to ‘go dark’ for an hour? Take ACER’s survey
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ACER (the Agency for Co-ordination of Energy Regulators) is asking European electricity customers whether they would swap a short power outage for cash – and if so, how much. It is part of a research effort to try to find…
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Tenaga Wind Ventures refinances UK wind farms
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Tenaga Wind Ventures UK has refinanced its 80% interest in GVO Wind and Bluemerang Capital, two onshore wind companies acquired on 28 February. The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysian utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad, opened a £120 million refinancing facility with Bayerische…
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Siemens to construct Stockton peaking plant
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Siemens is to design and build a decentralised gas peaking plant in Stockton on Tees for Hartree Partners, comprising six SGE86-EM 2MW containers. The peaking plant at use Siemens’ E-series engines designed for gas peaking plants, industrial power generation and…
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OPINION: Airport example shows there are still big wins in solar PV
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Michael Watson, chairman of Pager Power, argues that the UK is missing some big wins on solar PV. Airports are a good example UK airports have huge amounts of land, most of which is grass. Most airport operators could install enough…