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Councils accused of blocking clean power to 4.4m homes
…power to 680,000 homes for a year. Examples of the projects that have been objected to include multi-billion pound schemes such as the Bradwell B nuclear plant in Essex, as…
Time for more science in employee engagement
…frameworks will be priorities over the next 12 months. The drivers for this are clear. As energy and water markets change in response to climate change, strained resources, societal mood…
Data centres could be hot properties
…in the flexibility market. Here, Utility Week explores the potential for both options. Exponential growth The clear one-way trajectory has meant questions have started to be asked about how the…
Tackling SF6 on the electricity networks
…to EU network companies but it is still unclear how these derogations will work in practice and what the implications will be for the switchgear market that GB networks rely…
Solar panels in space could power UK by 2035
…Jacobs shows that the cost of generating tidal power is comparable to nuclear. She said that tidal power could provide 15GW of electricity for £60 billion, which she described as…
Suitability of ‘reversible’ heat pumps to cool homes questioned
…“Tackling overheating at scale will not be a quick or easy undertaking. Clear collaboration between government departments and local authorities is necessary, supported by a clear messaging campaign and a…
Labour urged to clip Treasury’s wings by establishing powerful net zero unit
…said: “It is clear that Britain needs to radically improve the way it implements policy and delivers infrastructure projects. Whoever forms the next government will need to introduce a clear…
Weekend press round-up: Boiler tax set to be scrapped
…year before. “The appetite among companies is enormous, as they want to cut their electricity bills and support decarbonisation.” The Daily Telegraph Give clear view of net zero emissions plan,…
Closing the gap for women in engineering
…clear signs of improvement. The news has been full lately of stories about the continuing shortage of STEM workers in the UK, EU, US, and worldwide. The unfortunate reality is…
Lords call for regulators’ regulator to regulate regulation
…regulators face, including Ofgem and Ofwat. The report concludes that “some regulators are being overloaded with objectives, without clear guidance on how they should prioritise between them”. It adds: “Some…
Elexon: Why we should become the market facilitator
…target, two key issues need to be addressed: The creation of clearer and more easily accessible flexibility markets, and how the sector can encourage widespread consumer take-up of products and…
Batteries could lose ‘big chunk’ of revenues in constraint clampdown
…the TCLC would deliver benefits. It is unclear how these proposals would work in practice, which members have emphasised makes it difficult to properly understand the commercial impact they would…
Government assessments reveal risks to its own net zero policies
…tables in the government’s climate plan. We only learnt of their existence through our case and it’s clear as more pieces of the puzzle emerge that much of the government’s…
Record capacity procured in latest T-1 auction
…in auctions is dependent on price, with slightly less being procured at higher prices. The latest T-1 auction cleared at £35.79/kW/year – a 40% decrease when compared to the previous…
Two more suppliers cleared to restart forced PPM installations
…one priority. We’ve made clear that suppliers must exhaust all other options before considering forced installation of a prepayment meter, and consumers can help themselves by reaching out to their…
Weekend press: Lack of internal auditors ‘significant weakness’ for water firms
…of Moroccan desert roughly the size of greater London. The expected energy output is slightly more than the power to be generated by the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, which…
‘Draconian’ energy efficiency rules met with legal challenge
…signed by The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), alongside 12 organisations and over 50 local authorities – adds: “The [ministerial statement] contains a number of clear factual errors including…
Retreat on funding has ‘shaken’ confidence in Labour’s Warm Homes Plan
…of the next parliament. Sir Keir Starmer made clear in January that the party would not break its self-imposed fiscal rules to meet the target, and in February, the Labour…
ESO holds first auction for new Balancing Reserve service
…The ESO procured 428MW of positive balancing reserve at a volume-weighted average price of £9.46/MW/h. Clearing prices for each half-hour service windows ranged from £0/MW/h to £29.21/MW/h. It also procured…
When financeability assessment goes wrong: the long-term consequences
…for customers. The distinction between austerity and efficiency is never clear in practice, however. To a regulator tasked with ensuring that customers do not pay for company inefficiency, reductions in…