Demand side response in the Irish Capacity Remuneration Mechanism (CRM) is to face de-rating factors already applied to storage duration limits under new rules confirmed by the country’s electricity market authority.
Two of the UK’s leading energy trade bodies have combined to call on regulators and the system operator to embrace demand response and allow it to further transformation of the energy sector.
Kiwi Power has completed its latest behind-the-meter battery installation at a manufacturing site in Plymouth as the demand aggregator continues to target the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector with similar projects.
Only 8% of electric vehicle charging will be carried out using public network infrastructure over the next decade, according to the newly formed EV research service at consultancy Delta-ee.
The UK’s renewables lobby has scrutinised the government’s decision to directly invest billions of pounds in Hitachi’s proposed nuclear project, suggesting renewables to be a far cheaper and quicker way of decarbonising the country’s power.
Highview Power and Viridor has taken the UK “a great step forward” after completing what is thought to be the world’s first grid-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant at the Pilsworth landfill gas site in Bury, near Manchester.
Energy secretary Greg Clark ended weeks of speculation yesterday evening (4 June 2018) by making a statement before the House of Commons, confirming that the government had indeed entered into negotiations over the proposed development of the 2.9GW nuclear reactor at Wylfa Newydd.
A general lack of collaborative thinking, particularly in relation to whole system solutions, could hold back network innovation, the sector has been warned.
