This week’s issue of Current± Price Watch – powered by Enact – explores the summer spike in demand which led to a coal fired power plant being ordered onto standby, the prediction of a falling price cap on household energy bills in Q4 2023, and National Grid ESO publishing its Early View of Winter Outlook report proposing the return of the Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) for the winter period of 2023/24.
Current± Briefings: Shell Recharge on what EV industry stakeholders can learn from the experiences of the early majority will run at 10am BST on Thursday 13 July.
National Grid ESO has published a consultation focusing on its long-term reforms to the grid connections process which it says complement its shorter-term five-point plan.
Although progress has been made in the rollout of smart meters, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) “faces challenges in meeting its latest targets”, says the National Audit Office (NAO).
Around 70,000 extra jobs in the onshore wind sector are needed between now and 2030, says a report by the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC), with the total exceeding 100,000.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has announced that it has awarded contracts to seven organisations to develop innovative solutions to fusion energy development challenges.
With the number of low carbon technologies such as EVs, heat pumps and batteries being deployed continuing to gain momentum in the race to net zero, many are inherently flexible, and are not seeing their potential realised.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has announced a programme of investment in the transmission network in Scotland to connect offshore wind to the UK’s energy grid.
