Europe’s future: zonal pricing and mixed capacity markets?
How closely should energy pricing areas fit with country boundaries? That question was raised consistently at the PowerGen Europe conference held in Milan on 21-23 June.
How closely should energy pricing areas fit with country boundaries? That question was raised consistently at the PowerGen Europe conference held in Milan on 21-23 June.
Following 23 June’s referendum on exiting the European Union, companies in the energy space expect a period of uncertainty. One of those uncertainties is how long it will be before companies can be confident in making plans.
When the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its final remedies package on 24 June, aimed at making the competitive energy market more effective, it was seen by some as a damp squib.
Ofgem wants answers from electricity system operator (SO) National Grid on why it spent more than three times its budget to procure additional contracts with -suppliers of a specialist network service – Black Start – for 2016/17.
The 40MW Brigg Renewable Energy Plant 40MW straw-fired biomass plant has opened in Lincolnshire.
The government’s latest review of support for anaerobic digestion (AD) and micro-CHP (combined heat and power) will make it “even harder to deploy viable AD plants”, according to the industry body the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Associa
Mothballed UK gas turbines could be exported to Africa, Silvia Stefini of GE’s Power Services business, told New Power. Exporting second-hand engines “gives some value to an asset they no longer use”, she said.
A Community Windpower windfarm in the Scottish borders will power half of Nestlé’s operations in the UK and Ireland when it is completed in 2017.
Former energy minister Charles Hendry has published a call for evidence on the feasibility and practicality of tidal lagoons in the UK.
Energy regulator Ofgem is planning to refine its ‘supplier of last resort’ arrangements – which take effect when an energy company fails – so that customers who are in credit with the failed supplier are less likely to lose their cash.