Smart meter roll out ‘will struggle to meet 2025 deadline’: Cornwall Insight
The government’s goal of achieving a smart meter in every British home by 2025 is looking harder to achieve, according to new polling of...
Ovo’s demand shifting trial rewards customers with £150k
Electricity supplier Ovo Energy paid out nearly £150k over the winter to customers opting to switch their times of consumption.
Power Move, the challenger retailer’s...
Netcos launch plan to speed connections for renewables
Operators of Britain’s power grids have outlined a three-step blueprint to speed up connections awaited by clean energy developers.
An unprecedented 164GW of connection requests...
Shapps unveils Anglo-Dutch interconnector at North Sea energy summit
A new 1.8GW subsea electricity interconnector, billed as the world’s largest serving multiple users, is to be built between the Netherlands and Britain’s east...
Octopus floats five-point plan to ease grid connections
Queue-jumping, weeding out legacy upgrades, more collaboration between developers, and a data-driven approach for regional network operators, are among remedies proposed today by Octopus...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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,...
EGL2 mega-connector wins Anglo-Scots planners’ green light
Britain’s biggest current network improvement project, the Eastern Green Link 2 subsea cable running for 291 miles under the North Sea, has secured planning...
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 –...
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...
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...