Editor’s weekly: Political turmoil hampers innovation direction
Delays to key consultations on the future of the energy system rumble on.
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Editor’s weekly: the next phase for decarbonisation
The revolution is growing in pace and reach.
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ECCC member Heappey ‘relatively relaxed’ over scrapping of Decc
He said he hoped it would mean each governmental department would become responsible for their own decarbonisation.
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Eden Project wins £16.8m to drill for geothermal heat
The investment means that the Eden Project and its delivery partner, EGS Energy, can start drilling their first well on Eden’s site next summer, after working for a decade to get the project off drawing board.
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DSOs and data
Paul Beck, director of smart grid solutions at Lucy Electric, encourages customers to look at not how much data they can collect, but what that data can be used for, and the actions that will result from it. “What is important to DNOs, and in the transition to DSO, is not data, but information,” he says. “You can end up with an awful lot of data – in fact, far more than can be processed. It is extracting the information for analysis that is important.”
Drilling starts at UK’s first deep geothermal electricity plant
Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) want to demonstrate the potential of the geothermal resource in the UK to produce electricity and renewable heat. The plant will supply up to 3 MWe (Mega Watt electrical) of electricity which is enough energy to power 3,000 homes.
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Disruptive technologies rewarded at UK Energy Innovation Awards
Small business innovators with novel technologies are disrupting the energy sector, bringing benefits to customers and accelerating UK energy system transformation.
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Distributed ReStart project: live trials
The NIC-funded Distributed ReStart project aims to provide a world first by coordinating distributed energy resources (DER) to provide a safe and stable Black Start service in the event of system-wide blackout.
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District energy scheme to get £1m boost from DSR
The district heat and power project in Gateshead will become part of Flexitricity’s demand response network. The project will receive in excess of £60,000 per year over the next 15 years by providing capacity to National Grid.
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District heat: an attractive investment?
District heat networks were gifted an unexpected pot of money from the government in last year’s Budget. The government committed to provide £320 million in capital support over the next five years. This investment is expected to fund 200 heat networks that will supply the equivalent of more than 400,000 homes and leverage £2 billion of private investment.At the end of last month the government launched a consultation asking how the money should best be spent and monitored.
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