The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has promised to make it simpler for technologies like home batteries and electric vehicles to participate in the Balancing Mechanism (BM), by relaxing operational metering requirements. It is also launching new workstreams with the…
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Flexitricity launches new flex product promising to remove complexity for businesses
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Flexitricity has launched a product to help industrial and commercial energy users, as well as operators and aggregators of domestic flexible technologies, to participate in energy flexibility markets. The product, ‘FlexGO’ is aimed at organisations including energy users, utilities, and…
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HyMarnham hydrogen project due in operation by end November
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GeoPura has said its HyMarnham Power green hydrogen project will begin operations by the end of November, after it secured a £27 million green loan facility to expand its hydrogen-powered energy services in the UK and establish a new Danish…
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Proposed Cheshire methane storage facility could switch to store hydrogen
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Keuper Gas Storage Limited (KGSL) has launched a public consultation on plans to build a hydrogen storage facility in Cheshire, instead of a gas storage facility as had been planned. The project between Lach Dennis and Middlewich in Cheshire involves…
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Great British Energy solar scheme expanded
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Great British Energy has promised to increase spending on solar energy to £255 million, up from £180 million, and expand the scheme to military land. GBE says a new partnership with the Ministry of Defence will see technologies such as…
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Mersey water source heat pump uses energy from canal to heat homes and businesses
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The Peel Group and district heat network specialist Ener-Vate have opened the Mersey Heat Energy Centre, which houses one of the UK’s largest two-stage water source heat pumps provided by Star Refrigeration. Harnessing heat from the nearby Leeds and Liverpool…
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Limited biomethane supplies must be targeted at hard to abate sectors, says report
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Great Britain’s limited supplies of biomethane should be directed towards uses that are most difficult to decarbonise in other ways, according to a new report from Regen and MCS Foundation. The literature review of future forecasts suggests that 13-120 TWh…
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Nuneaton bus depot offers charging for e-HGV for the first time
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An e-HGV has been charged at Stagecoach’s Nuneaton bus depot in Warwickshire. The bus and coach operator, working with e-fleet solutions provider VEV, says this is the site’s first third-party charge and it hopes it will be the start of…
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E.On Next says £600M domestic battery and flex investment would save £735M for fuel-poor customers
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E.ON Next has called for energy sector support in fuel-poor households to focus on installing batteries. It wants installation of 250,000 home batteries in the country’s fuel-poor households at a cost of £600 million. The company said economic analysis shows…