Over 25,000 households are set to take part in the UK’s largest ever home energy flexibility study. CrowdFlex, funded as a Network Innovation Allowance (NIA) project via National Grid ESO and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) will include Octopus…
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Gas winter review: increasing variability puts pressure on compressor fleet
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National Grid Gas (NGG) saw a different winter in 2020/21 than it had forecast, according to its Gas Winter Review and Consultation The gas grid operator expected the trends of recent years to continue, forecasting that use of LNG would…
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CCC calls for economy-wide Net Zero test; power sector needs action on gas generation and energy from waste
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Two parts of the electricity generation sector were in the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC’s) firing line when it published its annual report to parliament. Among ‘specific key gaps that need to be addressed by government policy’ the CCC called for…
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CCC report to parliament: the industry responds
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Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Rt Hon Philip Dunne MP,: “The Climate Change Committee’s progress report offers a frank assessment of the Government’s environmental progress to date. The UK has made much headway in creating a cleaner electricity system over the…
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BEIS under scrutiny as Select Committee opens inquiry into Net Zero governance
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The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has launched an inquiry on net zero governance, to examine what leadership and co-ordination will be needed by government to reach net zero by 2050. The Committee will consider the Department for…
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Drax beguns consultation on new pumped storage plant at Cruachan – but warns investment decision will not be taken without an ‘updated market support mechanism’
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Drax Group has begun consultations that will lead up to an application for planning consent for a new underground pumped hydro storage power station that would double the capacity at its Cruachan facility in Scotland. But the company said reaching…
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ACT NOW: Aberdeen opens tender for joint venture partner to develop green hydrogen supply hub
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Aberdeen City Council has opened a tender for a joint venture partner to build Scotland’s first commercially scalable, investable hydrogen production site in the city. It follows a market engagement exercise conducted earlier this year that prompted ‘significant interest’. The…
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Report: 2020 ‘petri dish’ reinforced need for new market design and independent operator
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Anyone who doesn’t think that the sixth carbon budget was a step up in decarbonisation ambition for the energy sector and anyone who doesn’t think that is “stark staring mad”, Tom Corcut, Ofgem’s deputy director for wholesale markets, said during…
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Intergen plans to convert Rocksavage to blend hydrogen and eventually move to 100% hydrogen burn
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HyNet North West and InterGen have released plans to collaborate to create a low carbon power station at InterGen’s Rocksavage power plant in Liverpool City Region. InterGen has owned and operated the gas-fired Rocksavage plant for nearly 25 years. It…