From New Power Report: So you want to be a CATO?
Helen Miller and Deborah Greenwood discuss opportunities and obstacles in the new competitive transmission regime The government’s proposal to lift the restrictions on the ownership of onshore...
View ArticleEnergy efficiency: how the NHS loses out – and what networks could do
Joanne Wade, chief executive of the Association for the Conservation of Energy (ACE), says the NHS’s local management structure is raising its energy costs. In New Power‘s July issue, Wade talks about...
View ArticleAs hydro pumped storage hits a regulatory impasse, are batteries heading for...
Regulatory uncertainty is holding back a new generation of pumped hydro storage projects across the UK’s mountainous Celtic fringes, despite the growing need to balance variable output from renewable...
View ArticleScottish Government ‘must act to reassure investors after wind farm decision’
A Scottish legal decision that quashed the permits for four major offshore windfarms, including one – Neart na Gaoithe (NNG) – that had a Contract for Difference (CfD), is an immense problem for wind,...
View ArticleExpert Forum: ‘GB power network must evolve. We need ISO and DSOs’
EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH The GB’s high-voltage electricity network should have an independent system operator (ISO) instead of leaving the responsibility with a ring-fenced part of National Grid, says a...
View ArticleBonfire of red tape ‘most damaging energy decision’
Decisions taken in the government’s ‘bonfire of red tape’ have been more harmful to energy investment than any changes in renewable energy subsidy, according to key industry investor Siemens....
View ArticleEnergy storage: legal and regulatory barriers to overcome
Storage is increasingly seen as the answer to making the energy system more efficient and cost-effective. But legal and regulatory barriers are making it hard to make use of developing storage...
View ArticleRisk vs reward: adding storage to a renewable energy site
Is it a gamble to add storage to a renewable energy site? Louise Dalton, senior associate in the energy at law firm CMS, considers the legal position The co-location of storage and renewables can...
View ArticleNew Power Report: September issue
INTERVIEW: Tom Rotheray, ADE FEATURES Onshore wind: policy vacuum means wind farms may seek to extend their life. What are the implications? War breaks out on embedded benefits INTERVIEW: Sharon...
View ArticleNew Power Report: October issue published
SUBSCRIBERS, LOGIN TO DOWNLOAD THE OCTOBER ISSUE Including: INTERVIEW: Gillian Cooper, Citizens Advice “We are thinking of ideas that work within the grain of the CMA remedies, but push it a little...
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In the November issue: INTERVIEW: Regen SW chief executive Merlin Hyman “BEIS is labouring under the false assumption that it controls the market through its subsidy regimes” FEATURES Winter is coming...
View ArticleExpert Forum: government must take the lead on resilience. What’s your opinion?
One respondent to New Power’s latest Expert Forum survey, in which we asked about resilience issues, said: “Resilience issues for us are about data safety and communications. Very little else.” But...
View ArticleProject Nexus: June go-live ‘looks feasible’
Could Project Nexus finally have a reliable ‘go-live’ date? Plans to switch over to the new gas industry settlement system in June 2017 – delayed from April – “look feasible”, industry sources told New...
View ArticleOpinion: Sparking a smarter power revolution
Lucy Symons, director of public policy at Open Energi, says there is appetite in most businesses to help manage the grid. A little education could go a long way to delivering it Demand flexibility...
View Article‘Emerging’ power technology? Act today to avoid new grid response requirements
Today is the deadline for companies developing new power technologies to apply to be classified as ‘emerging technologies’ and avoid strict new requirements on how they interact with the grid and...
View ArticleFrom the archive: testing the limits of the gas network
Fast-changing combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) and more gas plant connecting at the distribution level could threaten the gas network’s ability to supply, system operator National Grid Gas (NGG)...
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Subscribers: login now to download the December issue INTERVIEW: Anesco chief executive Kevin Mouatt“We have 15 battery installations in place and will have another 100MW by the end of the year” “We...
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THE NEW POWER INTERVIEW: Toni Volpe, Falck Renewables “The energy market is not sequential any more. It is more like a web” “We think there is a space for onshore wind [in the UK] predicated on the...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things: utilities warned they may lose the customer relationship
The Internet of Things is coming and it could see traditional energy utilities’ business slip away. That was the message from a survey on the IoT published in the January issue of New Power Report....
View ArticleFalck Renewables chief: ‘there has never been a better time’ to acquire UK...
The UK is set for acquisitions in its pipeline of onshore wind farm projects, despite uncertainty over Brexit and the government’s lack of support for the technology. That’s the view of Falck...
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