Perspective: What’s all the fuss about embedded benefits?
Filippo Gaddo and Marina Charalambous discuss why embedded benefits are important and how the relevant decision bodies should address them
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Perspective: Tell us your views on the future gas grid
Carbon Connect wants to open debate on decarbonising heat and the future of gas. Chief executive Jonathan Shaw calls for contributions
Perspective: We need engagement and action on emissions
UKERC’s Jim Watson calls on the government to act immediately.
The New Power leader December 2016
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Stepping up
In recent years a number of gas-fired power plants in the UK have successfully applied for consent to extend. These include SSE’s Barking power station (470MW) and Scottish Power’s 1800MW Damhead Creek 2.
After the gold rush
The government is once again refining Capacity Market rules, but it has conflicting priorities to reconcile Janet Wood unpicks the issues
Lessons from the coal bubble
A set of new regulations forms a bubble that drives technical development and upgrades to equipment. Talking to GE, Janet Wood heard that companies respond to such an event
Building the new energy economy: a union view
The energy industry requires social dialogue and a coherent sector strategy, says Unison’s Allison Roche, to counterbalance its current fragmentation
Grow hydrogen to keep networks, GNDs told
Gas network operators must scale hydrogen trials sooner rather than later, according to Ofgem.
End of the identikit MWh? New supply products aim to differentiate
Good Energy has launched a product in which electricity customers can choose which generating plants provide their power, following a successful trial backed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that used Good Ener