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Second year for nation’s flex trials, as NG-ESO offers £3 per kWh

Ofgem’s approval on Friday means that today sees a repeat of cash incentives offered to businesses and homes shifting electricity loads outside peak times. National...

Centrica’s £65m strengthens Gresham’s & UKIB’s joint pledge on storage

Manager of green energy assets Gresham House and the state-owned UK Infrastructure Bank have confirmed their six-month old partnership to invest in collocated renewable...

Switch2 Energy celebrates wins at two industry awards

Yorkshire-based Switch2 Energy, a provider of district and community heating systems, has been honoured with two prestigious awards. The Shipley-headquartered company’s ICON connected heat interface...

Cleverer net charges & more BM players could fast-track UK’s energy transition​​​​​​: Cornwall &...

Reforming fees charged to use the electricity network could accelerate cost-effective decarbonisation of Britain’s electricity system, putting the UK back on track meet its...

SP Energy Networks pockets smidgeon south of £1mill to boost grid by 20%-plus

Scottish Power Energy Networks has been awarded just south of £1million from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund  to progress two innovative projects. The grid operator’s Blade...

NG flexes to load up with homes, happy to shift loads

National Grid’s electricity distribution arm is flexing its commercial muscle, again seeking to embrace homes – or their aggregators – looking to time-shift their...

SP Energy Networks pals with Piclo to primp end-to-end flex

SP Energy Networks has signed a two-year amity deal with platform provider Piclo to enable flex services using its independent marketplace, allowing flex providers...

All driller, no filler: National Grid “not boring“ in south London anymore

The less interesting lower half of Britain’s capital city witnessed at the weekend an end to boring to aid flows of backbone electricity –...

Ofgem convenes English mayors in quest of better local grid planning

Seven Metro Mayors and leaders of major English cities were among civic chiefs convened by Ofgem’s CEO Jonathan Brearley in a bid to spur...

“Wir fahren fahren fahren“ auf Cheshire‘s electric autobahns

Drivers across England’s north west can now benefit from a major grid rollout of rapid EV charge points across the region’s busiest motorway services,...

Tory voters “support by 71 to 6” green upgrades to strip UK grids of...

Nearly two-thirds of all Britons - or 64% - support the development of new greening improvements to Britain's electricity grids, designed to speed decarbonisation...

Winser points way to halving connection delays to “mere” seven years

Paying communities & homeowners to accept new power lines, could follow from a radical shake-up released today, intended to free up Britain’s chronically congested...

Pylons, to a T: all of Hinkley C’s new Ts R now in place

National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project has reached another milestone, with the linking up of all 116 of its new T-pylons, designed to replace the...

ENW is first DNO to publish minigeneration hubs as small as 50kW 

Electricity North West has become the first DNO to offer for public inspection its register of embedded capacity, listing all mini-generation plant in its...

Lobsters magnetised by power cables? Scientists wave their meters

The effects on sealife of magnetic fields caused by electricity cables running on or under the seabed are probed in a new scientific study...

“Move fast, and build things”: NG-ESO unveils 2023 Future Energy Scenarios

Lack of political will, not cash nor technology, is Britain’s drag anchor holding back “the network transformation of our lifetimes”, the boss of power...

SPEN hoists Ensign, flags up Grid’s £10 million “digital twin”

Scots universities & SP Energy Networks are teaming up to develop an AI-enabled ‘digital twin’ of the nation’s power networks. In a British first, UK...

NG zooms for industry views to speed renewables hook-ups

National Grid ESO has opened its latest round of consultation events, aimed at tapping industry wisdom to speed up connections for new renewables generators. Over...

SSEN commits £10 billion to offshore links & network upgrades

As many as 20,000 new skilled energy jobs will be created, a major transmission operator claims, following its pledge this week to plug 11GW...

“Largest in generations”: NG seeks partners for £4.5 billion Great Grid Upgrade

National Grid is inviting approaches from key supply chain partners as it attempts to deliver what it calls the "largest overhaul in generations" of...