NG’s Midlands DNO launches ClearViewConnect, makes connections pipeline transparent

National Grid Electricity Distribution, the DNO for the English Midlands, South West and South Wales, has launched ClearViewConnect, a new reporting tool intended to...

Regulator floats regional ‘think-and-do’ planners to spur cleaner networks

Ofgem is setting up a network of regional planners to improve the UK’s energy transition, in a bid to secure greater resilience in bi-directional...

AI second-guesses power cuts on SP’s network

Artificial intelligence has made its operational debut on a British electricity grid. Distributed switches & cables managers SP Energy Networks are claiming a UK first...

Switch2 Energy celebrates wins at two industry awards

Yorkshire-based Switch2 Energy, a provider of district and community heating systems, has been honoured with two prestigious awards. The Shipley-headquartered company’s ICON connected heat interface...

Cleverer net charges & more BM players could fast-track UK’s energy transition​​​​​​: Cornwall &...

Reforming fees charged to use the electricity network could accelerate cost-effective decarbonisation of Britain’s electricity system, putting the UK back on track meet its...

Watchdog barks: Heatnet oversight ”will fail consumers” unless lower prices & fairer practices are...

The UK’s 900,000 heat network consumers will judge regulation to have failed if it does not deliver cheaper, fairer and more reliable heating systems,...

SP Energy Networks pockets smidgeon south of £1mill to boost grid by 20%-plus

Scottish Power Energy Networks has been awarded just south of £1million from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund  to progress two innovative projects. The grid operator’s Blade...

Konnichiwa, Kraken ! ‘Ows tha doin‘, Coventry?   

Staff at fast-growing Octopus Energy were today celebrating two business successes, saluting separately the mystical Orient and the somewhat less mystical West Midlands of...

Government allocates public buildings £230 million for PSDS round 3c

The government is making a pot of £230 million immediately available to UK public authorities for heat decarbonisation and better energy efficiency in schools,...

SME-to-SME trades of clean solar power ‘cuts bills by up to 90%’ on Suffolk...

Over 140 companies on an industrial estate in Mildenhall, Suffolk, reckon their local market trading low carbon electricity is slashing bills by between 20%...

All driller, no filler: National Grid “not boring“ in south London anymore

The less interesting lower half of Britain’s capital city witnessed at the weekend an end to boring to aid flows of backbone electricity –...

Energy firms’ net zero plans blown off track by the energy crisis

Eighty percent of business leaders from UK and Ireland in the energy sector believe the energy crisis will impact their organisation’s ability to meet emissions...

BP chief Looney quits overnight

Bernard Looney, chief executive of BP since 2020, stepped down last night from the £10 million per year post, after confessing to inadequate candour...

EGL2 mega-connector wins Anglo-Scots planners’ green light

Britain’s biggest current network improvement project, the Eastern Green Link 2 subsea cable running for 291 miles under the North Sea, has secured planning...

Decarbonising industrial heat: The technologies of today and tomorrow

By Paul Miller, Sales and Marketing Director at Drax Across an average year, industrial carbon emissions account for around 29% of global greenhouse gas (GHG)...

Broke, and broker: 3 million SMEs suffer in contact with tariff intermediaries, Octopus poll...

A poll released today by Octopus Energy for Business finds approximately 3.2 million small businesses have emerged bruised in their dealings with energy tariff...

Car decarb minister Norman urged to act on 300k charging target

Green motoring campaigners have urged decarbonisation minister Jesse Norman to add his name to moves aimed at speeding up Whitehall’s flagging drive towards 300,000...

Gore Street chooses EDF to run British third battery

Energy investment innovators Gore Street Energy Storage Fund have chosen French-owned EDF to optimise clean power trades from its new 80MW battery. Located at Stony,...

Pylons, to a T: all of Hinkley C’s new Ts R now in place

National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project has reached another milestone, with the linking up of all 116 of its new T-pylons, designed to replace the...

Plant hire partners puff hydrogen gensets for building sites

Surrey-based AFC Energy last year launched its H-Power Generators, designed to offer zero emissions electricity to run drills, lifts and tools on building sites. Later...