Total Gas & Power has hired former Npower sales, marketing and technical services director, Mark Rose, to head up its sales operation to large businesses. Rose becomes director, Major Business, effective this week. His remit includes responsibility for sales to industrial and commercial customers, and the public sector, either directly or via brokers. General manager, Sion Read more…
SSEN to trial Open Utility’s flexibility trading platform
Distribution network operator SSEN will trial Open Utility’s flexibility trading platform to try and make it easier for companies to provide demand-side response, or local grid balancing services. Distribution network operators (DNOs) need these services due to growing volumes of small-scale generation on their networks, which can cause congestion, known as constraint issues. Congestion on Read more…
Former Npower chief Paul Massara takes reins at blockchain firm Electron
Paul Massara is to take the CEO role at energy blockchain firm Electron. The former Npower chief executive joined Electron as a non-executive director last year. Founder and current CEO Paul Ellis will become company chairman. Electron has been expanding its team after securing both public and private funding, and this week announced further investment Read more…
Energy managers ‘to become fleet managers as EVs rise, passive firms will be less competitive’
Predicted growth of electric vehicles (EVs) means energy managers may also become fleet managers, according to Association for Decentralised Energy director, Tim Rotheray. Meanwhile, changes to grid charging structures mean firms that take a ‘passive’ approach to consumption will be less competitive than proactive rivals. Speaking at The Energyst Event in Birmingham, Rotheray outlined increases Read more…
Decarbonising heat: Free report
Decarbonising heat will be the challenge of our lifetimes. For the industrial and commercial sector, we may potentially be looking at just one or two asset replacement cycles until 2050, when the Committee on Climate Change says heat must effectively be zero carbon. So what are the options? The Energyst has surveyed end users in Read more…
Energyst Event: What you will learn this week
The Energyst Event takes place Tuesday and Wednesday this week, at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham. It brings businesses and public sector organisations together with industry to discuss energy opportunities and challenges. The theme is convergence of procurement, management and flexibility. Conference sessions will outline what the changing market structure means for end users, how they Read more…
Atlantis 6MW tidal turbine array enters commercial operations
Atlantis says its 6MW tidal turbine array in Pentland Firth, Scotland, has completed all tests and entered its 25 year operations phase. The milestone caps more than a decade of work. The company will turn its attention to scaling its operations and commercialising tidal stream technology. The first phase of the 6MW MayGen project uses Read more…
Emerging solutions: Can wind, rocks, coal mines and salt decarbonise heat?
Many bright minds are trying to harness renewables to decarbonise heat and deliver broader system benefits. The Energyst outlines some interesting projects taking place in the UK and Germany. A weekend heat store Chris Sansom is Associate Professor in Concentrating Solar Power at Cranfield University. His UK research focuses on novel materials for seasonal heat Read more…
£20m debt funding for battery storage firm Eelpower
Eelpower has secured £20m of debt funding with Gravis Capital Management to build out its battery storage pipeline. Eelpower plans to build, own and operate battery storage assets throughout the UK. Chief executive Mark Simon said the investment underlines the firm’s credentials and the market’s growth potential. Eelpower has a 10MW battery in operation at Read more…
One careful owner: 300kW battery used in innovation trials for sale
SGC seeks expressions of interest from parties interested in acquiring a containerised lithium ion phosphate battery following its use in Network Innovation Trials. A significant volume of performance data is included in the sale. The 300kW, 640kWh unit that has been participating in test for just over a year to see how well it can Read more…
Behind the meter: Cut power bills with the latest battery energy systems from Socomec
Sponsored article: The clean power revolution is gathering pace – disrupting power generation around the world. The relentless increase in the demand for energy is a major driver of change in the current energy landscape – particularly the mission to make the provision of electricity more democratic, for everyone, everywhere. Harvesting and distributing renewable, clean energy Read more…
Bristol Water poaches Bristol Energy’s finance chief
Bristol Water has hired Laura Flowerdew as its next chief financial officer. Flowerdew, currently finance director at Bristol Energy, will replace Mick Axtell, whose resignation was announced in November 2017 and who will leave the firm after financial statements for 2017/18 are approved by the board. Flowerdew will start on 1 October. She held senior finance Read more…
Northumbrian Water signs deal with Ørsted to go 100% renewable
Northumbrian Water will power all 1,858 of its sites using renewable electricity for the next four years after signing a deal with Ørsted. Ørsted owns or has a stake in nine UK offshore wind farms (Barrow, Burbo Bank, Burbo Bank Extension, Gunfleet Sands, Lincs, London Array, Walney, West of Duddon Sands and Westermost Rough). It Read more…
Energy networks outline closer gas and electricity collaboration ahead of price controls
Gas and electricity network companies have set out plans for closer collaboration ahead of the next regulatory pricing regime. The Energy Networks Association’s Innovation Strategy documents outline how gas and electricity networks and system operator have spent innovation funding to date, and what they plan to deliver next. It comes as Ofgem consults on the Read more…
Google hits 100% renewables goal with 3GW contracted, eyes more
Google has hit its target to use 100% renewable power. The firm said it now has contracts in place to purchase 3GW of output from renewable sources and plans to fund construction of more power plants. Urs Hölzle, senior vice president for Technical Infrastructure, said Google’s accounting for 2017 showed that it had bought more Read more…
Flexibility platform provider Origami Energy raises £18.6 million, plans to go global
Origami Energy has raised a further £18.6m, mostly from generator firm Aggreko. Other investors include Octopus Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital, and Fred Olsen related companies. The company said it will use the money to scale its operations and prepare for international deployment: It aims to partner with the world’s largest energy companies., Origami is involved in Read more…
Early fire warning ‘prevents huge losses for energy company’
Sponsored: For companies involved in waste management, spontaneous fires are a fact of life and the critical issue is therefore to detect an outbreak as efficiently as possible and prevent it spreading. For one such company in Sweden, FLIR thermal imaging cameras have played an essential role in this effort since 2016. Jönköping Energi turns Read more…
Energy firms eyeing ‘tokenisation’ models, says Energi Mine CEO
Energi Mine, the energy consultancy developing a blockchain-based energy efficiency rewards platform, says it is in discussions with half a dozen energy companies about ‘tokenising’ parts of the energy chain. CEO Omar Rahim said most of those discussions revolve around “energy and carbon trading”, though he believes that ultimately, “everything will be tokenised”. In simple Read more…
Which energy changes just kicked in?
April sees a number of changes to energy regulation come into force. Firstly, minimum energy efficiency standards, or MEES regulations, now mean public and private sector landlords cannot grant a tenancy to new or existing tenants if their property has an EPC rating of band F or G. Landlords can self-certify for exemption, but it Read more…
Half of UK’s power from low carbon sources as renewables top 40GW
Low carbon sources accounted for 50.4% of power generated last year, according to latest government data, overtaking fossil fuels. However, the UK’s total energy consumption remains more than 80% reliant on fossil fuels, and transport consumption continues to rise. Generation Total UK generation output in 2017 was 335.9 terawatt hours. Of the generation mix gas Read more…
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