Déjà vu: Still grappling with infrastructure planning
More than a decade since a Labour administration attempted to create a regime for handling key projects, uncertainty and indecision are back.
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Prosumers: cornerstone or stumbling block of the European energy transition?
Europe has moved beyond the early deployment of distributed generation, with a growing number of consumers producing electricity and willing to sell their excess to the market, or directly to other consumers.
Opinion: Fracking is just the beginning, Labour
Labour has promised to ban fracking. But that’s not because it’s not safe – shadow energy secretary Barry Gardiner told the Labour Party conference that there may be technical problems, but “technical problems can be overcome”.
Opinion: Can utilities think differently about digital?
Janet Wood, Editor, New Power
Opinion: Can utilities think differently about digital?
Janet Wood, Editor, New Power
In on the tide?
The Hendry review into tidal lagoon energy in the UK closed its call for evidence at the end of July. Sian Crampsie took a look at the UK’s potential tidal projects and found barrages more popular than lagoons
Assessing the new water risk
Defra is reforming water abstraction. The evolving policy has important implications for thermal power plants and for industry as a whole, as Karma Ockenden reports
Are you in the band?
Even the smallest generators will have to help manage the system in future. The change should reduce costs overall, but may increase costs for some generators. For some it means new product standards, for others it
October 2016 people news
Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed Centrica’s former head of corporate responsibility Georgia Berry as her Energy & Infrastructure special adviser.
Enterprise-funded subsidy to be capped
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has changed its approach to avoiding ‘over-rewarding’ businesses that have used enterprise investment tax relief schemes as well as capacity market contracts.