Thursday, 25 January 2018
by Anonymous

Hope fades for the TRIAD rescue plan

We have previously written about the legal challenge raised to try and stop the loss of TRIAD income to embedded generators. Well, the first results have just come out …
Thursday, 04 January 2018
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by Jenny Beynon

2017 the UK’s greenest year for electricity… ever

National Grid figures recently revealed that 2017 was the ‘greenest year ever’ in terms of electricity generation in the UK. The move towards renewables, with record outputs for solar, wind and hydropower, caused record low levels of carbon pollution.
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
by Anonymous

Battery storage made less attractive by Capacity Market

The Capacity Market (CM) was seen as a good/stable income stream for grid-scale battery projects worth around £20k per MW p.a. However, a recent decision by the Government has just blown a hole in potential new capacity market contracts!
Friday, 01 December 2017
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by Tay Bishop

No degression for January 2018

As widely expected, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced this morning that there will not be any RHI degression for any of the eligible technologies coming into effect on 01 January 2018. Therefore the current tariffs will be applicable until 31 March 2018.
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
by Anonymous

PPA stands for Painful Purchase Agreement

Do you know… How much you are really paying your energy advisor/broker? What your contractual commitments are to your broker and energy supplier? It can be well worth checking.
Friday, 10 November 2017
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by Andrew Morbey

Electricity generation from coal is decreasing

You may have read a number of news articles recently stating that electricity generation from coal is decreasing in the UK. It’s true… in the second quarter of 2017 (shown in the graph below as 2017 Q2) just 2.0% of electricity was generated from coal, the equivalent of 1.5TWh.
Tuesday, 07 November 2017
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by Elisa Evans

Three Anaerobic Digesters and a saw mill…

As part of our Energy Account Management (EAM) service, our engineers will visit customer’s sites. As the Account Manager for our portfolio of Anaerobic Digester (AD) clients, it is always good to get to meet my customers face to face after only really speaking to them either on the phone or via
Thursday, 19 October 2017
by Anonymous

Make sure you don’t lose out over the TRIAD season

The TRIAD season is almost upon us once again. It’s time for another look at the outcomes of previous seasons which assist you in either avoiding TRIAD demand periods if you import electricity or hitting them if you export electricity.
Monday, 09 October 2017
by Anonymous

Hope remains for Embedded Generators TRIAD income… just

Back in March this year OFGEM announced their final decision to remove (as good as) TRIAD income for embedded generators. I wrote a blog about it, which you can read here. Well, it seems there is a last minute attempt to reverse this decision in the form of a Judicial Review.
Thursday, 05 October 2017
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by Andrew Morbey

Energy storage on mountains and abandoned mines

With renewable energy and energy storage becoming increasingly researched and debated throughout the world, engineers and researchers are coming up with unique ways for storing this energy.

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