Angela Love has taken over as chair of the Smart Energy Code – the rulebook that will take customers into a smart energy future. She wants to use it to improve services, but there are some fundamental decisions to be…
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Crown Commercial Service awards £51M energy supply contract
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EDF Energy and Total Gas and Power will be the contractors through which central government and wider public sector customers will be supplied with electricity and gas, respectively, in the next four years. EDF Energy won a framework agreement for…
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Westminster ‘must act’ to gain benefits from Celtic Sea floating wind for Wales and UK
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“Floating offshore wind represents a once-in-a-generation industrial opportunity for Wales – we cannot afford to let this pass us by,” said Welsh Affairs Committee Chair, Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP. He was launching a report by the Welsh Affairs Committee…
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Cornwall’s first geothermal power plant wins funds to start by 2024
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Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL) has won funding from Kerogen Capital (£12 million) and Thrive Renewables (£3 million) to take forward its geothermal project at the United Downs site in Cornwall and its Geogen geothermal development portfolio. The new funding will…
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LNG cargoes ‘diverted away from GB in summer 2022 because of fears network could not accept them’
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Gas terminal operator South Hook Gas (SHG) believes that at least two cargoes of liquified natural gas (LNG) were diverted from GB to other destinations in Summer 2022 because technical limits in the gas network led the shippers to believe…
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NGESO calls for more power supply to meet evening peak
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System operator NGESO has taken measures to cover Tuesday’s evening peak demand as the week’s cold snap came along with a lull in wind, reducing the amount of wind power available. The system operator sent out a so-called Electricity Margin…
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Great British Nuclear setup hit by changes at the top of government
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Progress in constituting the UK’s new nuclear delivery body, Great British Nuclear (GBR), has been hit by the last year’s revolving door of UK prime ministers, Simon Bowen, who is advising on setting up the body, told MPs on the…
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Lowestoft’s kittiwakes given new nesting boxes by renewable energy developers
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Vattenfall and ScottishPower have unveiled the UK’s first kittiwake nesting structures to support consented offshore wind farms. The nests will be able to accommodate around 430 pairs of kittiwakes. With advice from a group including representatives from Natural England, RSPB,…
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Ofgem proposes regional energy planners and one markets ‘facilitator’ for local energy provision
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The responsibility for planning local energy networks and delivering local energy flexibility markets will change, under new proposals tabled and under consultation by Ofgem. The regulator says the current governance arrangements are not fit for purpose, given the energy system…