Offshore wind: Moray East stake
Mitsubishi is to acquire 33.4% of Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Limited, through its UK subsidiary Diamond Generating Europe (DGE).
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NI Renewable heat incentive inquiry: warnings ignored
Northern Ireland’s top civil servant has admitted personal responsibility for failings in the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
Onshore wind: Gaia in liquidation
Gaia Wind, a Glasgow-based supplier of small-scale wind turbines, has gone into liquidation.
Landfill gas: Infinis to take on Alkane
3i Infrastructure has announced plans to invest an further £125 million in Infinis so it can acquire Alkane Energy.
Emissions: Clean Air Act needed
The UK needs a new Clean Air Act – unifying and updating air quality legislation on pollutants including sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen oxides – after it withdraws from the EU, according to MPs.
Emissions: Some certainty on ETS
Energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry has confirmed that the UK will seek to participate in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) at least until the end of Phase 3 in 2020.
Nuclear: Supply chain quality fears
The company building Hinkley Point C, the new nuclear power station in Somerset, has “deficiencies” in its supply chain arrangements and quality assurance, and must make improvements, according to the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).
Power market gets set
Distributed generation may soon be able to offer reactive power to the market. A trial by National Grid and UK Power Networks is testing the concept
Extra interconnectors may not improve security
Interconnectors provide no additional security of supply above 9GW of interconnection, according to figures published in UKERC’s Security Assessment of Energy Futures, published in March (for more discussion of security issues see New Power’s inte
Higher energy market costs after Brexit ‘would be outweighed by macroeconomic costs’
UK consumers benefit relatively little from the EU’s single Internal Energy Market (IEM), Professor Michael Pollitt told attendees at the Future of Utilities conference in March, and other macroeconomic issues surrounding Brexit would be “orders o