Haven Power changes its name to Drax
B2B renewable energy supplier Haven Power is changing its name to Drax. Haven Power is one of the UK’s biggest renewable energy suppliers to businesses...
Carbon intensity at 181 gCO2/KWh across August’s grid, as power prices break records
Low power demand, CCGT outages and increased availability of French nuke-sourced imports push carbon intensity to a near-record low for electricity last month, National...
Imports at ‘record levels’ on August 20, but inflows won’t last: EnAppSys
Britain hit a new electricity import record late last month, according to analysts at EnAppSys. On Friday 20 August at 12:20 hours, net interconnector...
CMA formally approves National Grid’s purchase of WPD
National Grid’s £7.8 billion acquisition of Britain’s largest electricity distribution business has won formal approval from the competition watchdog.
The Competition and Markets Authority announced...
ESB takes 75% control of So Energy
Irish state-owned electricity provider ESB has acquired a controlling 75% stake in rising energy supplier So Energy.
The So Energy brand will be retained and its...
8GW of onshore wind and solar ‘eligible for upcoming CfD round’, say analysts
Respected energy soothsayers Cornwall Insight reckon that fattening pipelines of imminently delivered onshore wind and newly commissioned solar farms stand to add 8GW of...
Generators fined £6 million for faulty supply stats
Ofgem has fined two related power companies a combined £6 million for submitting inaccurate data on energy supply, thereby breaching rules on manipulating wholesale...
EDF’s 12% hike leads suppliers’ response to Ofgem lifting price cap
EDF has leapt first at the starting gun fired for energy retailers two weeks ago, when Ofgem lifted its cap on regulated home tariffs..
The...
Worth the wait? Government’s hydrogen strategy underwhelms industry
‘Twin-tracking’ expansion of hydrogen’s varieties sourced with and without methane can lift Britain’s generation capacity to 5GW by 2030, create 9,000 jobs, and lay...
Ofgem gets CMA’s provisional backing on RIIO-2 cap
The Competitions and Markets Authority has issued an initial ruling broadly supporting Ofgem’s bid to peg suppliers’ profits back to their tightest levels ever...
O’Kelly takes the helm at British Gas Energy
Catherine O’Kelly has been announced as the incoming new managing director of British Gas Energy. Returning from maternity leave, she will take up the...
Transforming the energy investment market
Dare, a London based energy tech company using the power of data, analytics and trading expertise to support the energy transition, has been launched...
Reservoir filling, not earthquakes, knocked 30% off our output, China’s biggest hydro ops tell...
The state-owned operator of two colossal Chinese hydro plants affected by 30% drops in generation over the April-to-June quarter has told The Energyst that...
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...