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Scottish Power has this month begun replacing wind turbines at the country’s oldest commercial wind farm. Writing for Utility Week, Scottish Power Renewables CEO Charlie Jordan explains why repowering old wind farms will be a crucial part of reaching net zero. He also stresses why we need to be able to do it faster than current legislation allows.

10 months ago

Vattenfall halts offshore wind project due to surging costs

10 months ago

SSE reports 29% renewables output shortfall

SSE’s renewable assets generated 29% less power than forecast during the first quarter of the financial year. In total, SSE’s renewable energy sources produced 624GWh. This represents a 5% shortfall on total planned output for the year. SSE attributes the drop in output to “dry and still weather patterns” during the three months until the end of June.

10 months ago

Government signals caution on local wholesale power prices

The government has signalled that it doesn’t want reform of the wholesale electricity prices, such as by creating a patchwork of local markets, to undermine investment in renewables. Its response to the now defunct BEIS (business, energy and industrial strategy) committee’s report on decarbonisation of the power sector, confirms that the government wants to significantly narrow the options when it publishes the second consultation on its Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA) this autumn.

10 months ago

Shortlist revealed for biggest ever offshore transmission contracts

Four bidders have been shortlisted by Ofgem for the UK’s biggest ever offshore transmission tender round. All four bidders will be able to bid for the three offshore transmission assets of Dogger Bank A Offshore Wind Farm, Neart na Gaiothe Offshore Wind Farm and Moray Offshore Wind Farm (West), estimated to be worth a combined total of around £2 billion.

10 months ago

‘Final piece in the jigsaw’: Orkney link gets green light

10 months ago

Grid connection woes hold up over 1,000 shovel-ready projects

10 months ago

Shapps overrules planning inspectors by approving giant wind farm

Grant Shapps has given the go ahead for the final phase of Orsted’s mammoth Hornsea offshore wind farm, despite planning inspectors warning that the scheme goes against wildlife protection regulations. The energy secretary has confirmed that a development consent order (DCO) has been granted for Hornsea Project Four, paving the way for construction to begin.

10 months ago

SSEN: 50GW offshore wind target difficult without ASTI

The government pledge to develop 50GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 would be very difficult under the Large Onshore Transmission Investment regime, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks has said. The network operator said it strongly supported the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) framework as an alternative because it enables a tranche of transmission projects to be fast-tracked.

10 months ago

Trade bodies urge CfD reform to end ‘race to the bottom’

11 months ago

Major milestone for ESO’s Local Constraint Market

The first end-to-end transactions of flexibility services for the ESO’s Local Constraint Market have been heralded as a success. A “world-first” trial saw households in Scotland increase their energy consumption to keep wind turbines online. The trial, led by Piclo, saw customers paid to turn-up their low carbon flex assets including heat pumps, electric vehicle chargers and electric heating.

11 months ago

Weekend press roundup: Sunak accused of ‘slyly’ reintroducing green levies

11 months ago

Miliband: Lifting onshore wind ban a Labour priority

11 months ago

UK’s offshore wind pipeline nears 100GW

11 months ago

Imports exceed nuclear generation for first time

11 months ago

Ofgem invites bids for £7bn of offshore wind connections

12 months ago

2045 floating wind target ‘not sensible’

The government has rejected pressure from MPs to set longer term targets for deploying floating offshore wind farms, saying that to do so would not be sensible. It follows calls from the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee for the UK government to set a target for offshore wind deployment by 2045.

12 months ago

Weekend press round-up: Coffey ‘fed up’ with water companies

12 months ago

French nuclear woes to keep power prices high beyond 2030

1 year ago

Move to formalise cut price wind farm tariffs

1 year ago

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