DNOs sign landmark ‘Flexibility Commitment’
Britain’s network operators have agreed to embrace flexibility providers when seeking solutions for grid issues under a landmark new ‘Flexibility Commitment’.
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Innogy blames ‘extraordinary’ low wind levels as it revises down divisional outlook
Germany energy giant innogy has been forced to revise down some divisional forecasts on the back of what it has described as “extraordinary low” wind levels.
Future Energy Scenarios 2018: National Grid’s headline figures
Yesterday National Grid published its annual Future Energy Scenarios document, one of the most hotly anticipated events in the energy sector diary. Current± has compiled some of the headline figures.
National Grid outlines plans for competitive, distributed energy-friendly Black Start procurement
National Grid has said it wants a new procurement process for Black Start capabilities up and running by the mid-2020s, and wants it to involve renewables and battery storage.
Welcome to Current±, your resource for the energy transition
As you may have already noticed, Clean Energy News is no more. Do not adjust your set, you are now reading Current± which, from here on in, will serve as your resource for the energy transition.
Solar generation record falls as National Grid expects further change
A new solar generation record was set earlier this week, the latest in a string of renewables milestones to fall this spring.
Vattenfall brings EFR battery online after overcoming engineering challenges
Vattenfall has brought online its 22MW battery project co-located with the Pen y Cymoedd onshore wind farm in Wales, becoming the latest company to start delivering sub-second frequency response to National Grid.
UK to ‘leapfrog a gas bridge’ as clean power set to replace coal
The UK will not need any new large gas generation to plug the gap filled by retiring coal plants, with renewables and other distributed energy systems ideally placed, a new report has found.
Transport is going electric, and at rates far quicker than previously thought. But to enable that change, the charging infrastructure – and the grid that powers it – must evolve in tandem. David Pratt investigates whether or not the UK is up to the challenge.