Gas networks defend RIIO returns
The gas distribution networks (GDNs) have mounted a robust defence of their profits, with Cadent arguing that they have delivered “a step change in customer outcomes”.
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Gas grid decarbonisation needed, report argues
The report ‘Pressure in the pipeline: decarbonising the UK’s gas‘ argues that deeper decarbonisation of UK gas is essential if the country is to meet its current and likely future emissions reduction target. The report assesses how to decarbonise gas in the UK by increasing the supply of low carbon gases and by reducing demand for gas in the heat sector. It calls for new government investment and incentives for decarbonisation to be an urgent priority in Ofgem’s next price control framework for gas from April 2021.
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Future Networks 2017
Networks are under pressure to create the energy system of tomorrow today, and by March 2017, the environment in which they strive to do so, may have changed significantly.
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Future Networks Conference
Innovation is at the forefront of the gas and electricity agenda as companies strive to create the networks for the future today. At the centre of this drive for innovation is the shift away from passive system management, towards the operation of active and flexible networks, carefully and dynamically balanced to accommodate new patterns of supply and demand.
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Future of Heat
The Future of Heat is a brand new event from the team who organise the annual Network Forum and Awards. The new conference will address the issues surrounding decarbonising heat across the UK, with a strong focus on learning from ongoing projects and developing both policy and technical solutions to current and future challenges.
Gas and electricity infrastructure well protected, report finds
The report entitled ‘Digging up Britain 2019′, shows that there were 2,585,862 searches made through LSBUD’s online portal last year – a 14% increase on the previous year. As a result, almost a quarter of a million more potential asset strikes to the UK’s energy infrastructure were averted.
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Gas demand volatility linked to renewables
On 1 March 2018, when the UK was amid the ‘Beast from the East’, National Grid issued a gas deficit warning for the first time since the system was introduced in 2012. The warning followed multiple gas supply outages, including South Hook LNG terminal, Kollsnes gas processing plant and the BBL interconnector between Britain and the Netherlands.
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Gas grid connections best way to combat fuel poverty
The government should make increased connections of properties to the gas grid the focus of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) and remove a cap on new connections under the Fuel Poor Network Extension Scheme (FPNES), according to the alliance.
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Fulcrum achieves £2m order book growth
The Sheffield-based PLC confirmed the five per cent order book increase, to £44.1 million, in a trading update for the six months ending 30 September 2018.
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Fulcrum buys Dunamis Group for £22m
The acquisition will enable the company to expand further into the electrical connections market, which it says is estimated to be worth in excess of £500m per year.
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