Cave confirmed as Ofgem chair
He will take up his position on 1 October.
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Catch it, keep it: the role of CCS in decarbonising gas and heat
It is almost a year since the government unceremoniously pulled the plug on the £1 billion competition to commercialise carbon capture and storage technology, leading to the cancellation of Yorkshire’s White Rose and Aberdeenshire’s Peterhead demonstrator projects.
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Catapult chooses five SMEs for Innovator Support Platform
As the second intake to the Catapult’s Innovator Support Platform (ISP), the five firms will receive specialist business support to help them commercialise or scale-up at speed.
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Catapult calls for better local energy planning
The figures show that 358 local authorities decreased their carbon dioxide emissions in 2017, 12 less than the previous year.
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Catapult announces board additions
Former member of Parliament for South Thanet, Sandys is a policy and business advisor specialsing in the energy, food, and resources sectors. She currently serves as senior independent director at gas network company SGN, as well as being chair of the Government’s Energy System Data Taskforce, chair of the Food Foundaiton, and co-chair of the IPPR environment and justice commission.
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Case Study: Modelling, managing and mitigating fault levels
The aim was to enable to more synchronous generation to connect to the 11kV network in and around Birmingham City Centre without the need for costly reinforcements by modelling, managing and mitigating fault levels.
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Carmedy joins SGN
Carmedy (pictured left) joins SGN following six years with Southern Water as their CFO. Before working with Southern Water, he worked as the group financial controller for both United Utilities and Thames Water. He joined SGN last month and will be responsible for managing the company’s financial risk, financial planning, budget management, cost-benefit analysis and securing new funding.
Carbon Trust launches new initiative to transform energy system
Partners in the Energy Systems Innovation Platform (ESIP) represent almost 50 per cent of the electricity supply market in the UK.
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Capula hits deadline on SCS upgrade framework
The work included an upgrade at Hutton substation where Capula’s approach cut the traditional nine months it takes to do a full replacement to just eight weeks, with just one primary circuit outage over the usual multiple outages.
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Capturing carbon
The first output from the Catapult’s project was published in May 2018 and was an analysis of the current pattern of ‘effective carbon prices’ in the UK for decarbonisation in different economic sectors and activities. This showed a range of “effective carbon prices” with a number of areas that still appear “under taxed”, including coal and gas-based generation and energy consumption in homes and businesses.