Cyber security: defending the grid
What’s the potential worst-case scenario for a state-sponsored cyber-attack on our electricity networks?
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Cyber safety warning over UK’s energy infrastructure
Over the weekend national media reported that National Grid was contacted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – an arm of intelligence agency GCHQ – which advised it on how to increase its guard against criminally-instigated power cuts.
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Cutting the cost of the networks
Over the past year the Somerset coast has become a hive of activity where the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is being built, on one of the largest construction sites in Europe.
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Customers overcharged by £24bn due to regulator error, Citizens Advice claims
Citizens Advice is calling for companies to return some of this to customers through a rebate on their bills and for regulators to stop this happening again.
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Customers able to track power cuts
Over 250 UK Power Networks customers helped ‘road test’ the new website for the UK’s largest power distributor before it went live, with its developers drawing inspiration from leading internet retailers and brands outside the utility sector to shape the new-look website and services.
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Customer engagement group starts work
Ahead of RIIO-GD2, the group will scrutinise the company’s plans for investment for the future, customer service and social obligations, environment, and how the company will prepare the gas network for the future while keeping customers’ bills as low as possible. Ofgem’s RIIO2 Challenge Group will also scrutinise the development of the gas networks’ business plans, liaising with the various customer engagement groups.
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Crouch joins Burns & McDonnell
Crouch (pictured) joined Burns & McDonnell earlier this month (January), having previously been head of engineering at Sterling Power Group.
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Cross-sector partnership to drive adoption of drones
The project is a result of a call for innovation by the Energy Innovation Centre (EIC) in November to third parties within its community to expand the current range of drone operations and capabilities.
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Critics fear Ofgem’s charging review will stifle renewables
However, the move has brought criticism from industry bodies and energy companies, which fear that increased charges for some smaller generators of renewable electricity will disincentivise them and reduce the amount of green electricity, and electricity storage capacity, available on the grid.
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Creating certainty
Most of us have felt the heat of this endlessly warm summer. So you’d be forgiven for missing the landmark announcement from the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) recommending that heat networks be regulated, with this oversight provided by Ofgem.
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