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...
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...
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...
“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,...