Ancala sees the potential
Infrastructure investment manager Ancala Partners has raised £51 million of debt facilities for Green Highland Hydro, the asset-ownership vehicle for hydroelectric power assets developed by Green Highland Renewables.
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Go-ahead for Cheshire storage
Business and energy secretary Greg Clark has approved the development consent order (DCO) for a major gas storage project at Holford, north of Middlewich in Cheshire.
The New Power leader: Time for an SCR, with a new kind of panel, Brexit bad news for nuclear
Time for an SCR, with a new kind of panel
In the heat of the moment
Sian Crampsie finds that demand response offers new support for CHP
Combined heat and power (CHP) plants are playing an increasing role in boosting the flexibility of the country’s electricity system.
Off the starting blocks
Janet Wood looks at how blockchains are becoming a reality in the electricity sector
What’s our European nuclear future?
Brexit is likely to be more disruptive to our existing nuclear fuel cycle businesses – and hence existing reactors – than our new-build programme
Left out in the cold?
As the parliamentary vote on Brexit takes place, Janet Wood looks for new clues on what leaving the EU will mean for the UK’s power industry
March news in brief
Opponents of SPManweb’s planned overhead line in Denbighshire and Conwy, approved by the government last year, have won the right to a judicial review.
Northern Ireland RHI inquiry gets under way
Outgoing NI finance minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has appointed Sir Patrick Coghlin, a retired former Lord Justice of Appeal, to chair the inquiry into the administration’s disastrous Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
Less inertia needed?
There are other ways to replicate the ‘inertia’ that fossil fuel plants provide to the electricity system, which keeps the system in stable operation and allows it to ‘ride through’ disturbances, according to a report from the UK Energy Research C