Green Investment Bank in profit and up for sale
Three years after it came into being, the Green Investment Bank this month celebrated a profitmaking year and government said it would begin a process to sell it to the private sector.
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Retailers: on the road to a new industry
Independent energy companies now supply 12% of the domestic market and that is set to rise, delegates at Cornwall Energy’s retail event heard.
Distribution networks’ future in question
What is the future for distribution networks?
Testing time for gas turbine operations
Despite the low price achieved by the CM auction the UK remains “the only big market [for gas turbines] in western Europe", Laurent Cornu, product manager for GE’s new 9HA turbine, told New Power.
Capacity markets v peaking prices: EU struggles over countries' different solutions
The biggest problem the EU faces in developing its internal energy market (IEM) is the “level of interest in linking up,” Miguel Arias Canete, commissioner for energy and climate change, told delegates at Eurelectric’s annual conference.
EMR ‘driving a race to the bottom’
The UK’s Capacity Mechanism and auction for Contracts for Difference are “prioritising short term gains over long term planning”.
Which new transmission assets should be up for competition?
In a key consultation on future contract Ofgem has sought views on how it should identify “high-value, separable assets” to be constricted in the transmission network that can be opened for competitive tendering.
Make hay while the sun shines, says National Grid
“We need your flexibility – and those that respond will get payback”.
The New Power Interview: Catherine Mitchell, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Exeter
Catherine Mitchell explains the thinking behind her comment that EMR needs to be revisited, telling Janet Wood the industry needs political buy-in
Can energy square the waste circle?
The EC wants to move towards a 'circular economy' with waste volumes dramatically reduced. But there remains a role for energy from waste. Janet Wood asks whether as well as power, those plants could provide energy services?