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Foresight acquires 2.5MW AD plant on Isle of Wight
The 24-acre site at Arreton has a CHP plant to provide 250kW of electrical power generation capacity to power the facility (and related waste heat use), c.580 Sm3 (standard cubic metres) per hour of biomethane export capacity to grid (plus related CO2 sales) and capacity to process in excess of 50,000 tonnes per annum of energy crops whilst benefiting from FIT and RHI revenue.
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Former Energy Minister to oversee power plans for SP Energy Networks
The group will help to create the plan for the next evolution for electricity transmission beyond 2021 by providing an independent challenge to the company’s business plan and regulator Ofgem.
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Former gas storage facility to become LPG terminal
The facility will be the biggest of its kind in the UK and will allow Flogas to significantly boost its LPG offering to customers across the UK.
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Former Ofgem chief joins ENW as non-executive director
Alistair Buchanan has spent almost three decades in the industry, including 10 years as chief executive at the energy regulator.
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Former Ofgem director appointed as chair of CEG at SPEN
The next price control period, RIIO-ED2, starts in 2023 and the company is forming the CEG to oversee the development of its next business plan, which will be submitted to the energy regulator, Ofgem, for approval in 2021.
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Five remain in final bidding round for Electricity North West
According to anonymous sources quoted by the newspaper, they include owners of two other DNOs – Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Infrastructure, which holds a 40 per cent stake in UK Power Networks, and the Spanish utility Iberdrola, which owns SP Energy Networks through its parent company Scottish Power.
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Five ways LiDAR technology is mapping the future
Beginning with trials back in 2013, the technology is now becoming mainstream thanks to Scottish Power Energy Networks’ ongoing two-year LiDAR project. This is helping other networks to embrace the technology through the dissemination of lessons learned via workshops and presentations.
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Fleets could lead the EV roll-out
The paper ‘Arming the Fleet – accelerating businesses scale adoption of EVs’, highlights that fleets are not being considered adequately in the current EV debate, and that there is also a gap that needs to be bridged between the fleet industry and the power sector to build mutual understanding of key objectives and opportunities for collaboration.
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Flexibility is key
The portable ‘plug & play’ relay and control rooms provided by design and engineering experts Acrastyle offer just this flexibility, enabling network operators to respond rapidly to changing needs.
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