When chancellor George Osborne launched the National Infrastructure Commission in the autumn of last year, it had been a long time coming.
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The policy announcements came in speech by Johnson to launch a “Year of Climate Action” ahead of the UN COP 26 climate change conference, to be held in November in Glasgow.
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In a Tweet, the MP for Orpington said he had been “torn between family loyalty and the national interest”.
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The project has already won a four-year contract to provide balancing services through National Grid’s enhance frequency response (EFR) tender.
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Utility Week Live set my head spinning. Numerous stands and speakers set out their roadmaps to a greener future, championing innovation and new business opportunities. Very impressive – yet why was it so unconvincing?
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The recent publication of the FPSA2 (Future Power System Architecture) report highlighted the challenge of delivering 35 new or enhanced functions that will be needed by 2030 to manage the whole power system and its interfaces with other grid-edge vectors – such as gas and transport – in the current institutional governance framework. Ofgem’s Jonathan Brearley highlighted the challenge to regulators of being able to adapt to the speed of change and the breadth of the transformation now under way.
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Ofgem is getting a new chief executive. Jonathan Brearley will take over in February at a time of “unparalleled change in the energy industry,” according to the regulator’s chairman, Martin Cave.
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Cloud computing is big business. Amazon’s AWS division, the industry’s largest cloud provider, is fast approaching the $10 billion mark in annual revenue, earned by selling computing capacity to businesses and public sector organisations around the world.
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“The costs of carbon capture and storage must come down if it is to play a part in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK’s economy.”
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Ireland Power, the sister event to the largest water conference in Ireland, Ireland Water, brings all the essential stakeholders together to address the economic, regulatory and environmental challenges facing the sector.
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