National Grid ESO is introducing a new two-stage process for applying for a grid connection, as it looks to increase certainty for developers and tackle the long wait-times experienced by many.

Digital grid technology and services provider Smart Wires has developed new software tools to help grid operators create additional capacity for increasing renewable energy, following a two-year project with EirGrid.

Project Local Energy Oxfordshire (LEO), led by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution, has revealed “key recommendations” from its grid flexibility trials to create an “energy system of the future.”

Secretary of State for the newly-formed Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ), Grant Shapps, has set out his plan for the future of Britain’s energy.

Current± – along with its sister site Energy-Storage.news – is back at the at Solar Media’s Energy Storage Summit 2023 for the second day, finding out about the investment opportunities for storage, the growing flexibility markets, how storage can help tackle grid connection constraints and much more.

Octopus Energy has partnered with distribution network operator, UK Power Networks (UKPN), to allow customers having heat pumps installed in their homes to receive fuse upgrades performed at the same time.

Energy regulator Ofgem has called on energy suppliers to use the pause in prepayment meter installations to consider whether any recent forced installations should be reversed.

The T-4 Capacity Market auction has cleared in its third round at a record high of £63/kW/year, more than double last  record high price.

An inquiry held by the Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has concluded that the Government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) is failing to deliver on its objectives, as the take-up of grants remains “disappointingly low.”