Liam is UK editor at Solar Media, the publisher of Current± and other titles including Solar Power Portal. Liam edits the UK-facing titles and has done since 2015, having joined the publisher as a reporter the same year. Previously, Liam has held positions at other London-based B2B publishers such as Pageant Media and Progressive Media.
Banks Group has been revealed as the company behind a legal challenge against the government’s Contracts for Difference mechanism which stands to delay its forthcoming auction.
BP Chargemaster has confirmed that its chief executive David Martell has left the business.
Energy technology firm Faraday Grid has been plunged into administration after failing to find the funding needed to take it “to the next level”.
Distribution network operators and the decisions they made to disconnect end users will be investigated as part of an inquiry into last week’s blackout, the government has confirmed.
Much of the reaction to last Friday’s blackout has centred around possible, but now dismissed, links to the high penetration of renewables on the UK’s grid. Liam Stoker analyses the train of thought that decentralisation could actually be the most compelling solution to grid security.
Solarplicity has accused Ofgem of “overly onerous interventions” which ultimately led to the energy supplier’s collapse this week.
Innogy saw its first-half income cut by more than a quarter (26.3%) year-on-year as losses from its UK-facing npower unit spiralled.
Last week’s UK black out was unlikely to have been the result of either high renewable generation or a cyber attack, National Grid chief exec John Pettigrew has said.
Lawrence Slade is to stand down as the chief executive of industry trade body Energy UK at the end of the year.
The government is to launch a formal investigation into last week’s power cut which left nearly 1 million customers without power.
OVO Group is in discussions with SSE to acquire its UK-facing energy supply business, it has been revealed.
The government has doubled funding for the installation of on-street EV charging points.
