The hidden cost of data
Data underpins every aspect of modern life, with more information generated now than ever before. Keeping data centres cool is crucial for their safe...
ENA oversees flexibility & collaboration in 2022’s Open Networks programme
Britain’s energy networks have unveiled ambitious plans for 2022 to transform the way the UK’s energy networks operate through its industry-backed Open Networks programme.
Marshalled...
Smart meters: Britain tops 17 million, saves half million tonnes of CO2 each year
The UK’s installed base of smart, remotely addressable meters passed the 17 million milestone in 2021, overseers at the Data Communications Company (DCC) announced...
Thames twizzles hundred million turkeys on 2021’s biogas
Thames Water claims to have generated enough biogas from sewage this year to roast 112 million Christmas turkeys.
The UK’s largest water company created almost 140 million...
Two DNOs pledge £10 Billion for RIIO-ED2 upgrades, as Ofgem fines Western Link duo...
Two distributed network operators (DNOs) including Britain’s biggest WPD today passed to Ofgem final plans totalling more than £ 10 billion for network upgrades...
Unknown pleasures: Solid-oxide generation yields low-carbon electrochemical volts for North West firms
An independent arm of DNO Electricity North West today announced collaboration plans with US partners to bring innovative behind-the-meter (BtM) generation to the region's...
Swifter action needed to speed up the introduction of hydrogen for home heating
The managing director of Baxi UK & Ireland has called for swifter measures to speed up the introduction of hydrogen in order to decarbonise...
Grid-scale power storage as long as 24 hours “must reach up to 2.5 GWh...
Grid-scale capacity to store electricity for between two and 24 hours will need to rocket up 400 times on current deployments, reaching between 1.5...
Inspired to cut power usage in data server barns
Believed to be guzzling as much as 2% of the entire planet’s electricity now - and already at 11% in Ireland, - data centres...
National Grid half year results: Pre-tax up 75%, op profit up 47%, capex up...
Britain’s privatised backbone system operator pleased investors today with strong results for the six months to September.
Against a steady-state base of continuing activities, National...
Speedster SSE accelerates Net Zero programme, commits £ 12.5 billion by 2026
Generator-retailer SSE pressed its pedal heavily to the environmental metal today, committing £12.5 billion from identified resources by 2026, on the way to attaining...
Battery bonanza: Twenty-fold storage expansion to characterise the world in the 2020s, say Bloomberg
Energy practitioners all sense it. Now a leading consultancy is the latest to put numbers around the intuition: “The 2020s are the decade of...
Wake up to 8-hour storage: Ceres and RFC enjoy breakfast of (ch)Amps &...
Fuel cell firm Ceres Power this morning teamed up with RFC Power, an Imperial College spin-off, in quest of the world’s most efficient flow...
ENA flexes for openness, seeks ON responses and applicants to chair top body
The Energy Networks Association (ENA) has taken steps to improve governance & transparency for its Open Networks programme, launching a new stakeholder group and...
World’s biggest continuous ultracapacitor on Teesside “super-stabilises” National Grid
A clever piece of power storage engineering from innovators Reactive Technologies has today dramatically upped stability capabilities on the National Grid.
The world’s biggest continuously...
Heat & Buildings Strategy: Johnson disappoints again
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s long awaited Heat & Buildings Strategy was this afternoon greeted with similar disappointment from energy campaigners and industry as the...
WPD pledges same day or next day hook-up of home heat pumps and EV...
Britain’s biggest DSO today committed itself to 48 hour maximum connection approvals of home heat pumps or EV chargers. Starting from 18 October, most applications...
Decarbonisation and the Future of Energy
Ahead of COP26, Veolia and The Energyst are hosting a webinar that will demonstrate real-world examples of carbon-reduction strategies and technologies that can aid an...
Latest edition of The Energyst available
The latest edition of The Energyst is now ready to read today online or via the new Energyst App.
The Energyst is now published monthly,...
Smart meters break 15 million barrier
Britain has seen its 15 millionth smart meter connected to the national network, transformation supervisors at the Data Communications Company have confirmed.
Installation of a...