Nur Energie scales up
Renewable energy investment company Low Carbon, and utility scale solar developer Nur Energie, say they plan to take forward a project to use concentrated solar power to provide electricity to Europe.
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Desertec scales back
A project that would have generated renewable energy in the desert and exported it – notably from the Sahara to Europe – has been dramatically scaled back.
Didcot export halved by fire
RWE Npower's Didcot power station is operating at just half of its 1.4GW capacity after a fire in one of the cooling towers.
Nuclear plants at part-load
EDF Energy's nuclear stations at Hartlepool and Heysham, which have been out of operation since cracks were discovered in a boiler spine at Heysham 1, are likely to return to service at partial load towards the end of the year, according to recent
Wylfa wins extension
Margins over the coming winter eased slightly again at the start of October when the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced that it would continue to operate its Wylfa nuclear station until December 2015.
Ofgem probes three companies over business meter failings
Ofgem has begun investigations into three energy suppliers – E.ON, British Gas and Npower – over their roll-out of advanced meters to business customers.
£3M penalty for EDF Energy
EDF Energy has agreed to make a £3 million contribution to Citizens Advice Energy Best Deal Extra and Plymouth Citizen’s Advice Bureau in recompense for poor customer complaint handling.
Welsh government proposes new planning powers
published, includes proposals which would mean that all power generation schemes between 25MW and 50MW would be determined by Welsh ministers rather than local planning authorities (ie councils) as so-called Developments of National Significance (
Ecotricity and Skanska aim for 350MW of new projects
Ecotricity and Skanska have announced a 50:50 joint venture, named Skylark, aimed at developing up to 350MW of onshore wind capacity over the next five years.
Wind farms pose problems for Irish planning agency
The increasing controversy over proposals for a massive increase in wind generation in the Irish Republic is posing a big headache for the state’s independent planning agency An Bord Pleanala, the Irish equivalent of the Planning Inspectorate in E