Report: do we undervalue interconnectors
One major cause of constraint in the southeast, and one likely to require new transmission lines to be built in the region, is power flows from the region’s growing array of interconnectors.
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One up, one down on European utilities
Rating agency S&P has set out its view of two mergers of major European utilities.
The agency looked at the rating implications of two acquisitions: Fortum acquiring Uniper; and E.On acquiring Innogy.
Low carbon ‘could be Europe’s rallying call’
Can the decarbonisation agenda and electrification be a unifying force in Europe?
Introducing the EU’s DSO entity
The UK is likely to have ‘associate’ status after Brexit in a new EU ‘DSO entity’ bringing together the bloc’s 2,400 distribution system operators.
Ofgem calls for urgent updates on imbalance costs as UK faces loss of derogation over 15-minute settlement
Electricity market participants in GB may have to change their systems to accommodate an imbalance settlement period of 15 minutes, instead of the 30 minutes currently used.
Specialists in scarce supply
Recent changes in regulation and technical and commercial challenges in the energy market are making it hard for energy scheme developers to cost-effectively recruit, train and maintain the expertise they need to complete projects, says Hugh Taylo
Labour public ownership plan could create hundreds of local energy groups
The Labour Party has put forward a programme for a bigger public role in energy supply that includes both national and regional authorities to set policy and could result in hundreds of local energy agencies.
The New Power Interview: Stuart Lacey, chief executive, Electralink
When Stuart Lacey joined Electralink in 2010, it seemed as though company’s major activity on behalf of the industry might be about to fall away.
INTERVIEW Andy Kinsella, Mainstream: Renewables are taking over the world - could the UK lose its lead in offshore wind?
Mainstream Renewable Power is one of a “new class of renewable energy majors”, according to the company’s group chief executive Andy Kinsella.
The New Power Interview: George Day, ES Catapult
Net zero has a wonderful simplicity about it, because we have to decarbonise everything