Thieves target solar sites
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.
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Pickle makes PV decisions
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.
Ofgem faces appeals over price determinations
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.
More planning powers promised for Wales
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.
Devolution raises questions over CfD details
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.
REG: planning to beat a nine month deadline to get RO projects ready for construction
Andrew Whalley, chief executive of Renewable Energy Generation, talks to New Power about the problems facing onshore wind - and how he hopes to push forward projects in the company's pipeline
Budget 2015: summary of energy statements
In its pre-election budget the Coalition responded to Scots pleas to incentivise North Sea production and energy intensive industry's calls to ease energy costs. Elsewhere it dotted 'i's and crossed 't's - and stepped toward more competition in networks and more negotiated contracts in tidal power
CCS demo projects may take FID this year, but industrial development is trailing
The value of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in reducing carbon emissions is “too great to ignore”, participants at a meeting on the technology agreed, but the route to making it viable was less clear.
More co-ordinated, more open to new investors: Ofgem's vision for a new transmission network
Ofgem has set out plans for a much more active System Operator (SO) that would help direct and co-ordinate transmission investment in Great Britain, and a more competitive regime to deliver regulated investments where possible.
Greenlink interconnector with Ireland fails to win cap and floor deal from Ofgem
Ofgem has set out plans to apply a “cap and floor” financial regime to three of four interconnector proposals submitted during September’s application window. The regulator decided there was no consumer benefit for a fourth, Greenlink, to be allo