From today wind, wave and solar generators will be able to offer the kind of stability services which have traditionally been delivered by conventional generators. They can do this because a rule change takes effect that allows National Grid ESO…
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Pulse Clean Energy to swap out diesel generation for battery storage on nine sites
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Pulse Clean Energy is decommissioning nine diesel generation sites and repurposing them as grid-scale battery storage assets. The changeout is part of its ambition to operate more than 1GW of energy storage assets across multiple markets. Pulse Clean Energy is…
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Act by 18 March: Northern Powergrid offers income stream to NE businesses who can flex their power use
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Northern Powergrid has named 19 areas where it wants to pay customers to change their power generation or consumption patterns in a way that helps to manage peaks in generation and demand on the electricity network. It aims to procure…
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Scottish Water adds battery to Perth waste water site PV array
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Scottish Water’s commercial subsidiary Scottish Water Horizons has completed work on a 800kWh battery to store energy generated from 1MW of solar panels, which have recently been installed at the waste water treatment works that serves the city of Perth.…
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BEIS opens £5M ‘biomass to hydrogen with CCS’ competition – but should the UK rely on large scale biomass?
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The government has opened a £5 million call for tenders, looking for technologies which will enable the commercialisation and deployment of Hydrogen biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at scale. BEIS says the programme is looking for innovation…
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INTERVIEW: Jim Hall, vice president, ICE, on whether we can deliver the Net Zero infrastructure we need
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Can we deliver the infrastructure we need to reach Net Zero? Janet Wood talks to ICE vice president Jim Hall about where the gaps are in delivery If the UK is going to be a Net Zero society by 2050…
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Industry welcomes BEIS promise of annual CfD auctions
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From March 2023, allocation rounds for Contracts for Difference (CfDs) for new renewable generation will be every year, instead of every two years, BEIS has announced. CfDs are 15-year private law contracts between electricity generators and the government-owned Low Carbon…
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SSE promises higher returns despite lower renewables and thermal generation
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In its half-year presentation in November SSE hailed its thermal plant portfolio as improving group earnings stability via capacity contracts, and providing a “natural hedge” against lower wind output or higher prices. That proved true in the nine months to…
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Thrive starts work on Bristol battery
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Thrive Renewables has signed construction contracts for a 20MW battery in Bristol. The Feeder Rd project was acquired from developer Aura Power, and Thrive has also been working with renewables consultancy, Everoze, which is acting as a technical advisor on…