Proposals for what will be one of the largest onshore windfarm developments in Scotland look set to climb off the drawing board, now that Glasgow Airport has successfully trialled a new radar system to detect turbines at Bank Group’s proposed Kype
The Canadian renewables fund that bought Bord Gais’s windfarm assets two years ago for around €700 million plans to sell off large parts of its Irish portfolio, which now carries an estimated value of €1 billion.
Renewable Energy Holdings has failed in its bid to overturn refusal of development consent for the Mynydd y Gwynt windfarm. Then secretary of state Amber Rudd refused development consent for the 27-turbine project in November 2015.
In 2013, in its first report on the Levy Control Framework (LCF), the National Audit Office said the government must make sure it had “robust arrangements to monitor, control and report on all consumer-funded spending” and extend that control to o
National Grid has placed too much weight on its ‘Gone Green’ Future Energy Scenario in the way it proposes to assess where the electricity network requires immediate reinforcement, regulator Ofgem has said.
UK industrial and commercial (I&C) businesses may be able to provide up to 3GW of demand reduction and 1.9GW of demand turn-up to help meet the need for flexibility and balance electricity supply and demand, according to research by regulator
The estimate for the construction cost of a new electricity link between GB and Norway has been reduced.
SSE has agreed to sell a 16.7% equity stake in SGN to wholly owned subsidiaries of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for £621 million, based on an effective economic date of 1 April 2016.
On 10 October, Ofgem started the fifth tender round for offshore transmission owners (OFTOs), where companies will bid to become owners of five transmission links to offshore windfarms.
Ofgem has announced a shortlist of five bidders to own and run the £230 million Burbo Bank transmission link. The shortlisted consortia are: