Government announces plans to regulate heat networks
The announcement is included in Heat Networks: Ensuring Sustained Investment and Protecting Consumers.
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Government capacity market measures will hit distributed generation, ADE warns
ADE said a forthcoming government review into the possible removal of the ‘embedded benefit’ could increase costs by industrial manufacturers and other local energy users by more than £170 million.
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Government invests £246m in battery technology
The four-year investment round – known as the Faraday challenge – will deliver a coordinated programme of competitions to boost research and develop national expertise in battery technology, including applications in the energy system.
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Government invests £30m in V2G technologies
The funding will pay for research and design and development, with the aim of exploring and trialling both the technology itself and commercial opportunities.
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Government launches investigation into major power outage
Andrea Leadsom, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has commissioned the Energy Emergencies Executive Committee to consider the incident which effected around one million customers and was caused when two major generators disconnected from the transmission system, causing frequency to drop to less than 49 hertz.
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GIB commits £35m to energy-from-waste-plant
The facility will cost a total of £180 million and is also backed by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Siemens Bank and Natixis, with Barclays providing an equity bridging loan.
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Give EV drivers “right to roam” across networks, APPG chair urges
Matt Western, Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington since 2017, made his appeal to the chief executives of Ecotricity, POD Point and BP Chargemaster, which he said are the three largest public EV charging infrastructure networks in the country offering rapid DC charging.
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GMB wants UK to reduce reliance on interconnectors
The union said Britain cannot depend on its neighbours to ensure the security of its electricity supplies when they are planning to do the same.
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Good Energy: protect local grids from EVs now
Speaking to the Energy and Climate Change Committee earlier this week Davenport said it is her personal view that every single electric vehicle produced in the UK should automatically wait until a period of low energy demand to start charging unless a customer actively overrides it.
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Governance needed to fill heat policy ‘vacuum’
The report from the Imperial College Centre for Energy Policy and Technology said there is a need for “strong city and local authority level involvement” in heat governance, although the resources to do this do not currently exist.
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