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The Linux Foundation has formed a new energy-related venture as it bids to “transform the energy mix across the world”.

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.

Electricity North West (ENW) has become the latest distribution network company to join Piclo’s ‘Flex’ consortium.

National Grid has confirmed it will aim to procure 46.3GW of reserve capacity in the forthcoming T-4 2022/23 auction and 4.6GW in the T-1 2019/20 auction following approval from energy minister Claire Perry.

Network operators shouldn’t necessarily be driving seat of the transition to electric vehicles, but should be at least sat in the front, one of the UK’s DNOs has said.

​UK Power Networks is to run its next flexibility tender on the Piclo Flex platform unveiled by Open Utility this week, which offers “an online dating” service for distribution network operators (DNOs) and distributed energy resources (DERs).

Ofgem could save customers a further £4.1 billion by tightening new price controls set out within RIIO-2, Citizens Advice has said.

National Grid has provided insight on two new record-setting events during the 2017/18 winter period and how they impacted transmission system demand.

A general lack of collaborative thinking, particularly in relation to whole system solutions, could hold back network innovation, the sector has been warned.