In the wake of the UK’s black out on 9 August, Liam Stoker speaks to the UK’s battery storage scene to determine precisely how it helped bring the UK’s power grids back online, and how they could prevent similar events in the future
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Flexible energy projects could jump connection queues under network ‘modernisation’ plans
Flexible energy projects could be fast-tracked through the connections queue as part of plans to “modernise” the way connection requests are handled.
Vattenfall Networks lands maiden IDNO contract
Vattenfall’s networks division has landed its first distribution network contract less than a year after launching.
Ofgem proposes fixed residual charges and an end to Embedded Benefits
Fixed charges are to be applied to all final demand network users irrespective of their ability to reduce their impact on the grid through generation or flexibility under Ofgem’s preferred strategy for its Targeted Charging Review (TCR).
Ofgem unveils raft of sweeping reforms to distribution network charging regime
Ofgem has set out its plans to overhaul the charging arrangements of the UK energy system to allocate more costs to distributed generation to reflect the ongoing changes in the sector.
Liam Stoker talks to Andrew Scobie and Richard Dowling of the Faraday Grid to talk fixing a broken energy system, an internet-esque revolution at grid-level and what’s wrong with electric vehicles.
Controlled ambition key as Ofgem seeks industry guidance on RIIO successor
Ofgem stressed that it will need the help of industry if it is to strike the right balance between enabling the energy transition and keeping costs to within acceptable limits, as it designs the second set of network cost controls.