Ofgem’s “Secure and Promote” initiative to improve liquidity in the electricity market has had mixed results and is unlikely to attract new financial participants into the market, the Competition and Markets Authority concluded in an issues paper
“It would take an improbable concatenation of events to put the lights out nationally,” the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said in a report on the Resilience of the Electricity System, and the group did not expect lights to go out this wi
SSE is to make a £100,000 payment to Energy Action Scotland in recompense for receiving excessive constraint payments.
Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a new research and development body funded by the Scottish Government, has opened a £7 million international technology innovation competition to advance wave energy solutions in the UK.
National Infrastucture Planning has awarded a development consent order for ESB's Knottingley. The 1500MW CCGT is sited near Wakefield.
Police in Lincolnshire are warning solar farm operators to be more vigilant following a spate of solar panel thefts in the county as well as other parts of the country.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has given the green light for a 41MW solar farm at a former airfield outside Swindon, a joint venture between the council and the Science Museum Group which owns the site.
Northern Powergrid, which operates two distribution networks, and supplier British Gas, have both asked the Competition Appeals Authority for permission to appeal Ofgem’s ED1 price determination.
The “devolution package“ announced 24 hours before St David’s Day (1 March) means Welsh ministers are due to have additional planning and licensing powers over energy and the environment.
The Coalition has confirmed moves to give the Welsh administration greater planning powers in line with the recommendations of the Silk Commission as well as a bigger role in respect of Contracts for Difference.