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...
Operators pledge 139 GW more next year to speed up grid decarbonisation
Britain's energy network operators have detailed their commitments to speed up generation and storage connections, pledging to deliver all of them during 2024.
Grid companies...
Schneider Electric launches One Digital Grid Platform in UK & Ireland
Schneider Electric has launched its One Digital Grid Platform to the UK and Ireland market. Following its first announcements earlier this year in the...
Hydrogen genset firm GeoPura expands with £36m from GM & friends
Hydrogen-fuelled power makers GeoPura have secured £36 million in growth funds from heavyweight investors including Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and the venture capital arm...
Reactive Technologies and NESO expand partnership with GB-wide oscillation monitoring
Reactive Technologies (RTL) and National Energy System Operator (NESO) have partnered to deploy live oscillation detection and monitoring in Great Britain’s electricity control room,...
SMITN poleaxes DNO into deeper love for users’ data
Britain’s biggest regional gridco Western Power Distribution is seeking new ways to crunch data from its smart meters, readying its switches and wires for...
ScottishPower seeks biggest ever supply round worth £5.4bn
ScottishPower has unveiled £5.4bn worth of contract opportunities as it launches its next phase of electricity network investment.
A boost early in 2024 by...
“Wave of innovations” from netcos needed for Net Zero, ENA concludes
Better & swifter connections, AI-based network optimisation, leveraging storage, communications and engagement are all critical areas needed, if Britain’s power grids are to reach...
Gridcos rush to reconnect 100,000 Isha-hit homes
Power distributors were rushing this morning to re-establish connections to an estimated one hundred thousand homes and businesses cut off by 90 mph winds...
NG fires up Viking cable to Denmark, world’s longest at 475 miles
National Grid has turned on its £1.7 billion Viking subsea power link to Denmark, claiming the 475 miles of the 1.4GW project makes it...
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...
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 –...
UK energy may need £900 Bn to reach Net Zero; NatWest & Boston Group
More than £900 billion in new spending may be required to get Britain’s power supply networks to Net Zero by mid-century, a leading renewables...
ENW confirms £1 million upgrades for Windermere, floats electric ferry notion
Regional grid operator Electricity North West next month begins £1 million worth of upgrade work. One task will speed the arrival of Lake Windermere’s...
Ofgem’s £21 billion RIIO-ED2 gauntlet squeezes DNOs with ‘tough efficiency challenges”
Britain’s energy regulator is seeking stakeholder views on investments plans totalling £20.9 billion which will shape the nation’s electricity network until 2028.
Before making its...
SP Energy Networks contract extensions deliver £220M distribution investment
SP Energy Networks, is set to invest more than £220 million to help deliver the future electricity grid after it extended its overhead line...
Bring us 1 GW of European batteries, sing duetting RPC and Eelpower
A Europe-facing investment fund already a quarter of the way to its target of 1GW of grid-scale power storage made its market debut today.
RPC’s...
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...
Scots hill to roar with power, as Tag tags Santander for big battery
Power storage provider TagEnergy has secured funding for its fourth amp-amungous crèche-for-coulombs in the UK, the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife.
Santander UK are...
Two DNOs pledge £10 Billion for RIIO-ED2 upgrades, as Ofgem fines Western Link duo...
Two distributed network operators (DNOs) including Britain’s biggest WPD today passed to Ofgem final plans totalling more than £ 10 billion for network upgrades...