EDF has announced plans to further extend the lives of the four nuclear power stations, Torness, Heysham 2, Heysham 1 and Hartlepool, subject to inspections and regulatory approvals. A decision will be taken by the end of 2024. The company…
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£300M investment aims to bring production of advanced nuclear fuel to UK
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The government has announced a £300 million investment to support domestic production of specialist nuclear fuel that would be required for new type of nuclear power plants. The government says the UK would become the first country in Europe to…
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BT Group begins trial to repurpose telecoms street cabinets as EV charging points
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BT Group aims to repurpose up to 60,000 street cabinets that previously housed telecoms cabling as EV charging points and it has begun technical trials at a site in East Lothian. The two-year trial was first announced in July 2023.…
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UKPN promises open data on curtailment history for low-carbon generation
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UK Power Networks has begun to publish data on when and why distributed energy resources are ‘curtailed’ – ie, stopped from exporting to the grid. The company introduced flexible connections in 2014. They enabled renewable energy generators to connect to…
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Piclo and NGED to ease flexibility market entry for providers
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Piclo and National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at simplifying access to local distribution flexibility markets for flexibility providers. From this month, more than 150 flex sellers with more than 60,000 assets registered on Piclo…
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RWE acquires 4.2GW of consented wind projects off Norfolk from Vattenfall
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Vattenfall is to sell the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone to RWE at an enterprise value of £963 million. The Norfolk Zone consists of three fully consented wind farms – Norfolk Boreas, Norfolk Vanguard West and Norfolk Vanguard East – and…
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Ørsted uses Allocation Round 6 opportunity to take go-ahead decision on Hornsea 3
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Ørsted has decided to enter part of its Hornsea 3 wind farm, which already has a Contract for Difference (CfD), in the next CfD allocation round. The news came as the company announced that it had made a Final Investment…
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Government invests £4.8M in demonstration projects that will see EVs feed buildings and the grid
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Four projects are today receiving a share of £4.8 million of government funding to develop technologies allow power to flow from electric vehicles (EVs) to buildings and to the electricity grid. The innovation builds on existing smart charging technologies, where…
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Battery pipeline grows by over 68% in 12 months
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A new RenewableUK report says the UK’s pipeline of battery projects has increased by 68% in a year, up from 50.3GW a year ago to 84.8GW and newer projects are much larger than their predecessors. The EnergyPulse Energy Storage report…