Heat is the elephant in the room of the energy transition. While we have made massive strides in greening our electricity supply with wind and solar, our heating sector remains stubbornly attached to fossil fuels. In the UK, over 80 percent of homes rely on natural gas boilers. Electrification via heat pumps is one solution, […]
The Catch: The Role of CCS in Decarbonising Gas Heat Read More »
Moving towards a low-carbon future and tackling climate change is bringing new challenges to the operators of the UK and Ireland’s energy networks. It will be vital to transform the capability of the networks while keeping costs down for consumers. This means managing our asset base in a smarter and more efficient way.
Managing your assets Read More »
The blast, which destroyed an end of terrace house in Cecil Road Blackley, occurred just after midday yesterday (Monday 16 January).
Manchester explosion was not due to network fault Read More »
The surveying is expected to take around 40 days and started with the launch of the first of MMT’s survey vessels, MV Franklin, from Pembroke Dock in Wales.
Marine survey work starts for Greenlink interconnector Read More »
As the gas produced at landfill sites diminishes over time, many are left with an oversized generation capacity when compared to the available gas. When this happens, many suppliers and operators are seemingly abandoning their clients by withdrawing their generation plant and services.
Maximising power generation from older landfill sites Read More »
While many readers were engaging with the debates at Utility Week Live earlier this summer, I made the sacrifice and headed to San Jose to pick up on the global trends being discussed at the Grid Edge World Forum. The challenges we face in Great Britain with the transition to a low carbon energy system are clearly global ones and the question that interested me was where was the UK leading and where was it lagging on the world stage.
Maxine Frerk: Letter from America Read More »
The Mayor wants London to become a zero-emission city and will use the capital’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Taskforce and other industry partners to drive forward a number of initiatives including:
Mayor sets out London’s EV charging network plans Read More »
The appalling Grenfell Tower fire disaster has drawn attention to the pressures on social housing in the UK and the attempt of social landlords to improve the energy performance of their buildings, in this case with unintended consequences. Fuel poverty is still a problem in social housing, particularly when gas central heating or district heating is currently not available.
Making the case for heat network funding Read More »
The network operator, which has restored power to 23,000 homes since Thursday evening, revealed that on Saturday (3 March) afternoon a walker saw a large tree branch hanging from an overhead line in a row of trees in Mottram, Hyde, Greater Manchester and attempted to remove it himself. After ‘feeling a tingle’ he then called Electricity North West who immediately cut power to the line from its control room in Manchester and advised him to stay away from the line.
Man cheats death after coming into contact with power line Read More »
