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Maxine Frerk: Letter from America

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While many readers were engaging with the debates at Utility Week Live earlier this summer, I made the sacrifice and headed to San Jose to pick up on the global trends being discussed at the Grid Edge World Forum. The challenges we face in Great Britain with the transition to a low carbon energy system are clearly global ones and the question that interested me was where was the UK leading and where was it lagging on the world stage.

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Making the case for heat network funding

Features, Gas, Heat, Policy Regulation, Power / aaliyah.murphy

The appalling Grenfell Tower fire disaster has drawn attention to the pressures on social housing in the UK and the attempt of social landlords to improve the energy performance of their buildings, in this case with unintended consequences. Fuel poverty is still a problem in social housing, particularly when gas central heating or district heating is currently not available.

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Making the most of the electricity we store

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Of all the new emerging energy technologies being developed, electricity storage stands to make the most immediate impact on the energy market.

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Making climate change local with UK100

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Local authority leaders from across the UK have been working to address the challenge of climate change since at least the early 1990s, with the advent of Agenda 21, the United Nations’ non-binding action plan on sustainable development, produced at the Rio Earth Summit 1992.

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Making rural heat networks happen

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Rural, community-led heat networks are possible in the UK and Regen SW has been working for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to understand the main viability factors: planning policy, gas grid and heat load.

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Low carbon heat must go electric in 2020, says GSHPA

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Bean Beanland argued that electricity-powered heat pumps are the most viable low carbon heat solution for new homes or retro-fits today, while widescale conversion of the gas grid to hydrogen is at least ten to 15 years away.

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Low-carbon heat networks awarded £24 million

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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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Lord Bourne speaks out on Brexit energy risks

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Decc’s key responsibility is making sure our families and businesses have the certainty of secure, affordable and clean energy supplies. For this very reason, I want the UK to vote to stay in the EU on 23 June – because it helps to deliver these objectives as well as helping us to tackle climate change more effectively.

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Local microgrids must pay network charges

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Allowing local energy projects to avoid system charges could result in escalating costs being passed through to customers, especially poorer and less engaged consumers who are unlikely to be participants in such schemes.

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Letting networks own storage would ‘distort the market’

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Services for the grid should continue to be bought through competitive tenders to keep costs to a minimum and ensure there is a level playing field, said North Star Solar chief executive Paul Massara.

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