Energy Security bill: stakeholders offer reaction
Industry observers have reacted to the government’s new energy security bill.
As the lame-duck Johnson administration enters its supposedly final weeks, the bill aims to...
Solar farms still most popular form of renewables, government survey confirms
Large scale solar farms remain overwhelmingly popular with neighbours and local voters, a government study has revealed.
More than four in five – or 81%...
Vestas to trial hydrogen-fuelled service launches maintaining North Sea turbines
Low carbon launches ferrying technicians on service trips to offshore wind-spinners will be put through their paces in the North Sea from next week,...
DNOs react to Ofgem’s RIIO-ED2 direction
Regional network monopolies are girding their loins for the last leg of negotiations with Britain’s power regulator, before it binds them in December to...
“Worst customer service on record” from energy suppliers, Citizens Advice finds
Standards of customer service delivered by energy suppliers have fallen to the worst in the six years since Citizens Advice began assessing them, the...
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...
Climate scientists: Johnson administration talking big, under-delivering on carbon transition
Britain’s path to net zero is being imperilled by the Johnson’s government’s over-reliance on long-term targets, market mechanisms, unproven new technology’, and not enough...
Analyst boss doubts NG’s residential load-shedding drive
A leading analyst has questioned the effectiveness of National Grid’s hopes of extending pre-announced load-shedding into domestic power supply.
The backbone operator was yesterday reported...
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...
Energy costs top Covid recovery as corporates’ main concern, survey finds
Energy costs have overtaken the recovery from Covid-19 as the top concern for UK businesses, according to a new report released today. Four in...
Floating offshore wind: Britain leads the world
The UK leads every other nation possessing a coastline in our innovation of floating wind turbines, both in numbers of operating spinners, and in...
Regulator clamps down on crashed suppliers’ direct debits & swollen credit balances
Ofgem today introduced tougher financial requirements on home energy suppliers, designed to stave off a repeat of last year’s collapse of 28 firms licenced...
Oil and gas authority seeks first CCUS bids for sub-sea sequestration
The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has this week fired the starting gun for the UK’s first-ever licensing round in offshore carbon storage.
Thirteen zones...
EDF agrees six month coal extension, as UK hedges against Putin
Fears over power shortages this winter sparked by the Ukraine war have prompted D-BEIS secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and the UK’s biggest remaining coal-fired generator...
“Most challenging year yet”, say four nations’ community energy pioneers
Hundreds of thousands of volunteer owners and operators of Britain’s potential-rich but beleaguered community energy movement are recovering from their ‘most challenging year yet’,...
Octopus to spin its first ‘asparagus’ turbines in Germany
Fast expanding Octopus Energy Group is deepening its interest in Europe’s biggest power market, closing a deal to build a 35MWp wind farm near...
Energy ministry “drags its feet” as Britain falls further behind on buildings’ carbon, MPs...
D-BEIS is presiding over Britain’s failure to control carbon emissions from new and existing buildings, according to MPs shadowing Whitehall’s energy ministry.
The Environmental Audit...
Invest in renewables to fund nuke clean-up, councils urge Whitehall
A protest group centred on local councils claims to have found a way of meeting at least part of Britain’s multi-billion public bill for...
For ‘windfall tax’, read ‘profits levy’: Sunak doubles fuel help, as £15bn package offers...
After weeks of denying he’d impose a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas extractors, Chancellor Rishi Sunak today bowed to Ofgem’s fears...
SSE posts full year Prelims: Pre-tax up 44% as reported, or 23% up, ‘steady state’-adjusted
Energy major SSE, with over 5 million domestic accounts, today posted preliminary accounts reflecting how big retailers got bigger during the year’s cull of...