Is EMR wearing thin?
Electricity Market Reform was the patchwork that was intended to answer the ‘trilemma’ on maintaining secure, affordable but low-carbon power supplies. Janet Wood finds it is fraying at the edges
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Editor's letter: Hold on to your hats
The focus on finance in this issue of New Power has shown up some interesting trends. Slow, risk-averse infrastructure investment is entering the energy industry, funding assets and networks for the long term.
Editor's letter: What’s left to review?
Setting out its RIIO2 framework consultation, Ofgem said that it wanted to take account of whole-system thinking – but it has not yet got a handle on how big the system is. Does it include transport, or heat? That has still to be considered.
April News in Brief
Centrica Business Solutions and WSP have announced a partnership to deliver smart energy management and optimisation to businesses.
Batteries: Cold storage
Open Energi saw the charging ability of some of the battery assets under its control hampered by more than 80% when the assets encountered temperatures below -10°C.
CCGTs: Reserve contracts sought
Irish power company Viridian is in talks with EirGrid and the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) over the possibility of negotiating transmission reserve contracts for its two-unit 737MW Huntstown CCGT.
Connection: DNO charges set to rise
Developers have been warned that from 6 April they will incur more costs when they apply to distribution network operators (DNOs) for estimates of the price for connecting new assets to the distribution system.
EVs: Health clubs offer charging
InstaVolt is rolling out rapid electric vehicle charging points to Bannatyne health clubs across the UK.
EVs: Skanska fills up head office
Pod Point has installed 67 electric vehicle (EV) charge points for Skanska UK, one of the country’s leading contractors, at Skanska’s Hertfordshire head office. The installation should be scaled up to 243 charge points in the future.
EVs: All-electric at UPS
UK Power Networks Services has implemented smart new electric vehicle charging systems to power UPS’s entire central London delivery fleet.