The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) made the commitment as part of its plan for creating a smarter, more flexible energy system, which was produced in conjunction with Ofgem.
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The new guidance has been published by the Department for Education (DfE), following its adoption of the skills portfolio from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in the recent reshuffle.
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Energy UK has urged the government to offer support for developing smart charging arrangements – such as time of use tariffs – to manage the spikes in grid demand resulting from mass adoption of electric vehicles.
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The graduates are filling key roles with the company and with its commercial division, UK Power Networks Services.
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The research found a projected £800 million increase in the value of the triad avoidance payments collected by distributed generators would be more than offset by reduced prices on the wholesale power market and lower costs in future capacity auctions.
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Mention the term microgrid, and most people tend to think of providing access to power on remote islands or in poorly served regions in developing markets. But recent developments are highlighting a big potential role for microgrids in mature power markets, including the UK, where it’s becoming clear that new ways of thinking about power supply capacity, stability and resilience are needed.
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According to analysis of Electric Insights data by researchers at Imperial College London, in collaboration with Drax, 2017 was also on course to be the cleanest year for electricity generation.
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“Great Scott! 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts!” Although these are the words of Doctor Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy, here at NIE Networks we are proclaiming a similar message. The Doc had to harness a lightning strike to provide this power, but a more feasible approach has been developed to supply the customers of Northern Ireland: distributed generation (DG).
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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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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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