Manchester explosion was not due to network fault
The blast, which destroyed an end of terrace house in Cecil Road Blackley, occurred just after midday yesterday (Monday 16 January).
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Marine survey work starts for Greenlink interconnector
The surveying is expected to take around 40 days and started with the launch of the first of MMT’s survey vessels, MV Franklin, from Pembroke Dock in Wales.
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Mayor sets out London’s EV charging network plans
The Mayor wants London to become a zero-emission city and will use the capital’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Taskforce and other industry partners to drive forward a number of initiatives including:
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Man cheats death after coming into contact with power line
The network operator, which has restored power to 23,000 homes since Thursday evening, revealed that on Saturday (3 March) afternoon a walker saw a large tree branch hanging from an overhead line in a row of trees in Mottram, Hyde, Greater Manchester and attempted to remove it himself. After ‘feeling a tingle’ he then called Electricity North West who immediately cut power to the line from its control room in Manchester and advised him to stay away from the line.
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Majority of EV drivers willing to use smart charging
The three-year study found that up to 95% of people would be happy to avoid charging at times of peak grid demand, or when electricity is at its most expensive.
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Major power cut could have been prevented, expert claims
The UK suffered a major power cut, following simultaneous failures at a gas fired power plant in Bedfordshire and an offshore wind farm in East Yorkshire. The result was chaos for almost a million people living in England and Wales, with areas affected including London and the major transport network.
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Low Carbon invests in district heating to develop replicable finance model
The model is being developed through the Bedminster project in which Low Carbon and ENE are working together with Bristol City Council on the deployment of a heat network.
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Low carbon jobs and revenue in growth, says ONS
Turnover in the UK’s low carbon and renewable energy economy (LCREE) was estimated at £46.7 bn in 2018, up 16% from £40.4 bn in 2015.
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Low-carbon heat networks awarded £24 million
The seed money is the first to be handed out as part of the Heat Networks Investment Project, for which a £320 million pot has been set aside by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
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Mackay visits Smarter Grid Solutions
The visit on Wednesday (5 September) coincided with the start of the company’s 10th year of trading. The firm is a leading provider of distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) software for major utilities across the world.
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