Regulator probes transcos’ and DNOs’ Storm Arwen response

Ofgem today announced a review of transmission and distribution networks’ responses to Storm Arwen, as thousands of homes awaited reconnection after seven days of...

Northern Powergrid’s communications ‘completely unacceptable’ after Storm Arwen, says minister

Communications with its customers by Northern Powergrid, the DNO with at least 1,600 homes left still unconnected ten days after Storm Arwen devastated northern...

Staunch greenwash sleaze? Track carbon through grid in real time, say Elexon and ES...

Restoring integrity to tarnished "clean power" certificates can be best guaranteed with new rules and new tech, tracking carbon from seed to flower through...

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...

D-BEIS nixes Russian oligarchs’ 2 GW cross-Channel interconnector

Britain’s energy ministry has rejected a £1.2 billion plan by a major donor to the Conservative Party to build a 2GW power interconnector from...

NG-ESO’s Networks Options Assessment: SSEN happy, preps three Peterhead pipes

SSEN Transmission, the network owner serving Scotland’s north, has today welcomed the National Grid’s greenlight to pump £5 billion into the region’s distribution wires. National...

Western Power debuts ‘first of a kind’ flex marketplace for smaller assets

Britain’s biggest distributed network operator today reaches out to small owners of storage assets, launching its platform to trade flex capacity and set prices...

Want long duration grid-focused batteries? Then put a Cap and Floor on balancing, Aurora...

Radical reforms to power trading rules are needed, if Britain is to achieve necessary expansion of long-duration power storage on route to Net Zero...

Ofgem green-lights nine SP Energy Networks projects towards Net Zero

SP Energy Networks has been given the green light to progress with £1.2m worth of projects to help tackle some of the UK’s biggest...

Gillian Williamson, first female engineering director at any DNO, takes up role

Electricity North West has made history by appointing Britain's first female engineering director at a distribution network operator. Gillian Williamson, a chartered engineer, has made...

Limejump to optimise 90MW of SSDC Opium’s storage

Limejump, the Shell-owned monetiser of grid-scale batteries, is teaming up with SSDC Opium Power to run two more units totalling 90 MW across the...

Thanks a thousand: WPD trials ‘kilo-quick’ fault limiter on CHP campus

Britain’s biggest DNO Western Power Distribution is trialling a new hyper-fast current breaker, assessing its potential to play a crucial role in evolving bi-directional...

Play flex markets from social housing’s storage heaters? Ofgem clears aggregators to try

Britain’s biggest home energy supplier is set to step aboard a new trial, linking flex trading to controllable storage heaters. From September, Centrica will begin...

UKPN’s Smyth to succeed Emery at top of Electricity North West

Electricity North West has announced the appointment of Ian Smyth as Chief Executive Officer. Joining from UKPN, the south east’s DNO, Smyth succeeds Peter Emery,...

Staffordshire town to get smart local energy system

Rugeley in Staffordshire is set to benefit from a town-wide smart local energy system (SLES), courtesy of Equans, Engie group’s division innovating in district...

Twenty million, and rising: Britain’s smart meters tick over into their third “ten-to-the-power-of-7” (*)

The Data Communications Company was this morning celebrating the 20 millionth smart meter to be connected to the UK’s secure national network. As recently as...

Beamer! Arenko tweaks BMW batteries, optimising flows from Wales’ biggest wind farm

Software provider Arenko is running code to expand revenues from the operation of Vattenfall’s 22MW / 16 MWh battery, co-located at Wales’ and England’s...

Government slates DNOs for Arwen responses

The government is ordering power grid operators to strengthen compensation schemes, up their communications, and improve re-connection times after one million customers were left...

WPD commits to easy hook-up for home microgenerators

Midlanders, Welsh folk and South Westerners who’ve turned their homes into solar-equipped mini-power stations got renewed backing from Western Power Distribution today. Fresh from announcing...

Homes “to get paid to dial down”:  NG-ESO mulls paid load shifting for households

Britain’s backbone power operator is reportedly pondering paying domestic users to dial down demand at peak hours this winter, in a bid to stave...