RTE, owner of the largest high and extra-high voltage electricity transmission network in Europe, spends more than €800 million on asset management every year. Confronting challenges to arbitrate between maintenance and renewal policies, RTE decision makers realised they needed to create a holistic business plan, allowing them to view the impact of their decisions across multiple systems.
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Services for the grid should continue to be bought through competitive tenders to keep costs to a minimum and ensure there is a level playing field, said North Star Solar chief executive Paul Massara.
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Grant Wilson and Paul Rowley today published a new paper for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) titled Flexibility in Britain’s Gas Networks.
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However, consumers could find that they are digging deeper into their pockets, as energy companies pass on rising costs on the wholesale international markets.
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The battery will be used to provide dynamic frequency response to aid the integration of renewables into the UK’s energy system when it’s not fulfilling its main purpose of reinforcing the local distribution network during winter peaks.
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Populating local energy markets with enough participants to enable services to be bought and sold easily will be “a real challenge”, according to a senior figure at Electricity North West.
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The legal claim, filed in Washington DC by human rights firm International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 parents and children, names tech companies Apple, Tesla, Dell, Microsoft and Google as defendants.
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The 1,195 kWh unit forms part of an energy centre being delivered by sustainable energy experts Vital Energi for the 30-acre Paddington Village development, currently under construction at the eastern end of the city centre’s Knowledge Quarter.
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In June, the government committed to a target for the UK to be net-zero for carbon by 2050. Many local authorities (a number which increases by the week) have set even shorter targets, some seeking to achieve net-zero decades ahead of the remainder of the UK.
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Terna’s head of operation and engineering of electric system, Enrico MariaCarlini said he is not in favour of a decentralised balancing system because if it is not properly co-ordinated “it is dangerous and could lead to an excess of power.”
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