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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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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Leadsom succeeds Greg Clark, who had held the position for three years, but was relieved of his duties by new Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this evening.
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The Energy Emergencies Executive Committee will establish what happened to cause the outage and if correct procedures were followed. It will also consider whether improvements are needed to prevent future power cuts and better respond if they do occur, including minimising impacts on people and essential services.
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In a Tweet, the MP for Orpington said he had been “torn between family loyalty and the national interest”.
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The gas network operator along with partners Arup, Kiwa Gastec and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, have successfully bidded into BEIS’s Hydrogen Supply Competition.
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HyNet will capture and store over a million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industry and store this offshore in depleted gas fields in Liverpool Bay, which are currently operated by Eni. HyNet will also subsequently produce hydrogen as a fuel for both heating, power and transport. A UK-first at such large scale, the first phase will be operational by 2024.
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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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Dermot Nolan, who took up the role in March 2014, joined the regulator from the Commission for Energy Regulation in Ireland where he had been a commissioner since 2008 and its chair since May 2011.
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The funding, which is coming through the Industrial Strategy, will also be used to develop new hybrid aircraft.
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