Clik here to view.
Interview: Vicki Spiers, AIGT and CNA
First published in New Power Report, August 2017 In most new housing, utility connections are provided not by incumbent network companies but by independents. Their numbers have been growing. Vicki...
View ArticleOnshore wind: an industry for a post-Brexit UK?
New Power’s March issue explored whether the UK onshore wind industry could punch above its weight in a growing global market. The key was a pipeline of domestic projects. Giving evidence to the...
View ArticleFrom New Power Report’s archive: getting the most out of onshore wind farms
In September 2016 New Power considered how onshore wind operators should think about the supposed ‘end-of-life’ for existing wind farms. Repowering windfarms with larger, more efficient turbines is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subscribers: download the April issue now
Energy security: key messages from UKERC’s scenario work Can London retain its green energy edge? How energy investment is driving industry change EMR: already out of date? OFTOs five years on...
View ArticleWomen in power: abstracts from interviews published in New Power Report
Pamela Taylor, Partner, Innovation Link, Ofgem Pamela Taylor is at Ofgem’s “grid edge”. She runs the regulator’s Innovation Link, a service for innovators that gives them feedback on energy and power...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subscribers: login to download the May issue now
What is a ‘System Operator’ and how should it be incentivised? Innovation: can the West Midands leave BEIS and Ofgem behind? How many people are auto-switching? Questions of control: network users hit...
View ArticleLegislation outlawing data flows between gas and electricity System Operators...
Fully separating National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO) functions from the transmission owner has thrown into relief the different approach taken over gas, and the limits to information flow...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subscribers: login to download the June issue now
Emma Bridges, Community Energy England ‘Community energy is a vital influencer. There are a lot of pilots out there at big scales, but you can’t test the effectiveness unless you test them at a...
View ArticleCommunity energy a ‘vital influencer’ for a new energy industry with...
The broad energy industry must support the community energy sector if it wants to get public buy-in to dramatic changes in the energy landscape, says Emma Bridges, chief executive of Community Energy...
View ArticleFrom the New Power archive: Long hot summer? How power assets are affected as...
Few of us are at their most efficient when the temperature rises. Just as human beings can find it harder to get to grips with their activities on a hot day, the efficiency of many electrical assets...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subscribers: login to download the July issue now
Greg Jackson, Octopus Energy We have to get away from the idea that innovation is about small things Jo Gilbert We don’t need lots more local authority companies spending public sector money Lord...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SUBSCRIBERS: login to download the August issue
The most reliable option was demand-side response – and it got more reliable over time Roger Hey, WPD A lot of people are looking at funding models, with a view to doing domestic demand response in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From the archive: Grid Beyond’s Michael Phelan talks to New Power Report
Aggregation and demand response company Grid Beyond has been granted a generation licence in the GB market. Last August, chief executive Michael Phelan talked to Janet Wood about the company and the...
View ArticleAs Project Terre gets the go-ahead: from the New Power archive – European...
Ofgem has approved a modification that will enable UK parties to participate in Europe’s balancing market. The change paves the way for the parties to participate in the Trans-European Replacement...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subscribers: login to download the September issue
Maxine Frerk, Grid Edge Policy Distribution network operators could take the lead. Instead of falling back on the rules and saying they can’t do anything, why not take on government’s wish for more...
View ArticleFrom the archive: New Power Report talks to new supplier Bulb
Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood saw the energy industry from the inside and thought they could do better. Two years ago Janet Wood spoke to them Bulb founders Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood tell me they set up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drifting into no-deal Brexit
The UK could slide into a ‘no deal’ Brexit because there has been little possibility to plan for alternatives, Christiane Leuthier, senior director of commodities at FIA, suggested at a round table on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subscribers: login now to download the November issue
Nemo Link: a new interconnector in an age of Brexit ‘Our fallback position, if the day-ahead market coupling fails, is to run explicit day-ahead auctions’ Alex Goody, Gemserv: ‘I see a...
View ArticleNemo Link: will power flow across the interconnector in a no-deal Brexit?
Will power trading seize up across GB’s interconnectors after Brexit? National Grid says trading will continue, but it will not be ‘frictionless’ if there is no deal and the UK exits the pan-EU...
View Article