New look for system alerts
National Grid is launching a dedicated website to keep participants in the capacity market up to date and allow them to register for alerts and other market information.
National Grid is launching a dedicated website to keep participants in the capacity market up to date and allow them to register for alerts and other market information.
The Triton Knoll offshore windfarm is set to enter the next Contracts for Difference auction after offshore connection works won development consent.
The works include:
Transmission assets at E.On’s Humber Gateway offshore windfarm are to be sold to BBEC, a consortium comprising Balfour Beatty Investments and Equitix.
Centrica has applied for an environmental permit for its planned 50MW gas engine array at Brigg. The embedded generator would be used to meet peak demand.
Five consortia have been shortlisted in a tender being run by Ofgem to own and run the £230 million transmission link to the Burbo Bank Extension offshore windfarm.
Eggborough Power Ltd (EPL) has announced plans for a 2,000MW combined cycle gas-fired power station on the site of its existing coal-fired power station at Eggborough near Goole in East Yorkshire.
ESB’s 880MW Carrington gas-fired power plant has entered commercial operation.
The company said the new plant began providing electricity to the market on 19 September.
Atlantis unveiled the first completed turbine for its MeyGen project at the Nigg Energy Park in Scotland on 13 September. The project is set to be the world’s largest free stream tidal power project.
Statoil is to takes over as operator of the Sheringham Shoal offshore windfarm from January 2017 and will increase its share in Dogger Bank.
Renewable energy firm RES has said the closure of the Renewables Obligation together with uncertainty over onshore wind’s access to Contracts for Difference (CfDs) means it will be cutting its UK workforce, with the onshore wind development team r