This week’s issue of Current± Price Watch – powered by Enact – explores Cornwall Insight's latest price cap shifting only £38, wind generating more British electricity than gas for the first time and the demand flexibility service scheme displacing the need for 3.3GWh of electricity.

National Grid has called for a “fundamental step-change” the scale and pace of delivering a new electricity network infrastructure in order to gain a competitive advantage in the international race for clean investment.

An 8MW grid connection to the Cowley bus depot will be built under an agreement between EDF Renewables UK and the Oxford Bus Company to power an electric fleet of buses for Oxford. 

The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) says that current UK government policies will leave British consumers dependent on foreign gas imports into the 2030s. 

The Office for National Statistics’ latest Climate Change insights data has revealed that 2023 has been a “warmer than average” year as consumption-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fall by only 2% from 2018.

The UK has a “once in a generation economic opportunity” to unlock £70 billion by becoming a “sustainability superpower”, says new report.

Nonprofit advocacy organisation People for Power says that 127 Conservative MPs, around a third of the parliamentary party, back its calls for community energy reforms as part of the Energy Bill. 

Octopus Energy’s Kraken Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership with Eni Plenitude to use the platform to support long-term growth in international retail energy markets.

The UK Government yesterday (11 May) set out new proposals to improve reward schemes offered to communities living locally to onshore wind farms.

The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’s (DESNZs) Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) has awarded £91 million between seven low carbon heating projects.