Government seeks answers on Capacity Market’s future
Beis is opening a debate on the future of the Capacity Market, inviting views on its early alignment with Net Zero, and more fundamentally...
Brand-loyal power customers should be rewarded, not exploited, Kwarteng proposes
Loyal energy users penalised by suppliers who hook them into expensive default tariffs could be the exception, and not the UK norm, if success...
National Grid-ESO to be replaced by ‘more independent’ operator of Britain’s grid
Critics of the National Grid’s ambivalent ‘running with the fox, while hunting with the hounds’ status were vindicated today, as Beis ministers floated their...
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Another massive earthquake slashes 30% off power from China’s No.2 and No.3...
A reported 30% plummet in electricity output at two sister dams to China’s Three Gorges complex– at 22.6GW, the world’s biggest power plant of...
Football’s over-coming ohms: Western Power peaks for Denmark game
Engineers’ chatter about power peaks at half time during big televised sports events consists of irresistible fact, as much as cherished fiction. Better still,...
Activists claim growing council & NGO support for Local Supply right
Campaigners seeking to free Britain’s local co-ops to sell low-carbon electricity direct to their communities today vowed to keep up the fight, citing numbers...
Parliament calls for major energy rules shake up
MPs from all parties have debated new rules to enable clean community energy generation and called upon the government to enact a ‘Right to...
The good, the bad and Orbit: Citizens Advice ranks 35 power suppliers to UK...
A “huge chasm” may be opening in customer service levels between the best and worst of electricity retailers to Britain’s homes, Citizens Advice’s latest...
Norway and Britain to swap clean electricity tomorrow over world’s longest subsea cable
Northumbria’s monks, beware; charged up Norsemen will tomorrow (Wed 23rd) tentatively unleash their hoard of clean volts on your Geordie shore.
Long contracts, not longships,...
Britain’s interconnector links are ‘Europe’s most expensive’, say consultants
Porting utility volumes of power to or from the UK incurs fees which now stand as the highest in Europe, according to consultants EnAppSys.
The...
NGP webinar offers insight into cutting energy, carbon and cost using energy management systems
NGP is inviting the industry to engage with a free-to-attend webinar which demonstrates how its energy management systems ClearVUE can help businesses gain greater...
Northern Gas and Power appoints senior hire to focus on global energy strategy
Northern Gas and Power (NGP), part of Global Procurement Group (GPG), has appointed Latif Faiyaz as Head of Flexible Purchasing and Energy Strategy, a...
Ban greenwashing, and make REGOs worth the paper they’re written on, Ofgem is urged
Energy retailing’s dirty, not-so-little secret has come under renewed scrutiny, with two prominent power providers uniting in a call to banish ‘greenwashing’.
In their joint...
EXCLUSIVE: ”Free up UK community energy co-ops to sell clean power direct to customers”,...
Boris Johnson’s government must free up the UK’s 200-plus voluntary energy co-operatives to sell self-made clean power direct to their communities, a Conservative-led committee...
What’s affecting gas and electricity prices at present?
Over the past year fundamentals effecting the wholesale energy market have changed drastically with weather, LNG supply, Brexit and COVID-19 at the forefront. Back...
“New epoch” of renewables unlocks capacity “to meet world energy needs 100 times over”:...
Energy economists Carbon Tracker believe fossil fuels will be ousted from world electricity production by the mid-2030s, displaced by tumbling costs of solar and...
Half hourly settlement in consumer retail power gets Ofgem’s green light for four year...
Ofgem has approved the introduction of half-hourly settlement in retail energy markets serving all consumers. Suppliers will have until October 2025 to implement the...
The Energyst – Latest issue out now
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,...
Carbon emissions from UK power fall 7.6% in a year of Covid lockdowns
Closing the UK’s remaining coal-fired power stations has made a bigger dent in national carbon pollution than a year of coronavirus lockdowns, analysis by...
Easter Monday sees record low carbon intensity for GB electricity
National Grid ESO has revealed that Great Britain’s electricity grid was the greenest it’s ever been at 1pm on Monday 5th April. The carbon...