Tuesday, 20 February 2018
by Andrew Morbey
Producing energy on Mars
As Elon Musk’s Space X launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time a few weeks ago with the aim to send a Tesla car and mannequin towards Mars’ orbit, we ask could life on Mars be getting closer? Friday, 09 February 2018
by Anonymous
Capacity Market clears at its lowest ever rates
A good Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and understanding of operating costs is even more essential for natural gas CHP after the Capacity Market (CM) auction cleared at it’s lowest ever rates this month. There were two auctions: T-1 for Oct18-Sept19 Cleared at £6.00/kW Previous low £6.95/kW T-4 Thursday, 25 January 2018
by Anonymous
Hope fades for the TRIAD rescue plan
We have previously written about the legal challenge raised to try and stop the loss of TRIAD income to embedded generators. Well, the first results have just come out … Thursday, 04 January 2018
by Jenny Beynon
2017 the UK’s greenest year for electricity… ever
National Grid figures recently revealed that 2017 was the ‘greenest year ever’ in terms of electricity generation in the UK. The move towards renewables, with record outputs for solar, wind and hydropower, caused record low levels of carbon pollution. Thursday, 14 December 2017
by Jon Swain
GrowSave goes to Scotland
It was a close-run thing… heavy snowfall on Sunday night in the Midlands nearly prevented the delivery of the latest GrowSave* event in St Andrews, Scotland. Fortunately, however, the roads cleared in time and all the speakers made it for Tuesday’s event. Tuesday, 12 December 2017
by Anonymous
Battery storage made less attractive by Capacity Market
The Capacity Market (CM) was seen as a good/stable income stream for grid-scale battery projects worth around £20k per MW p.a. However, a recent decision by the Government has just blown a hole in potential new capacity market contracts! Friday, 01 December 2017
by Tay Bishop
No degression for January 2018
As widely expected, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced this morning that there will not be any RHI degression for any of the eligible technologies coming into effect on 01 January 2018. Therefore the current tariffs will be applicable until 31 March 2018. Tuesday, 21 November 2017
by Anonymous
PPA stands for Painful Purchase Agreement
Do you know… How much you are really paying your energy advisor/broker? What your contractual commitments are to your broker and energy supplier? It can be well worth checking. Friday, 10 November 2017
by Andrew Morbey
Electricity generation from coal is decreasing
You may have read a number of news articles recently stating that electricity generation from coal is decreasing in the UK. It’s true… in the second quarter of 2017 (shown in the graph below as 2017 Q2) just 2.0% of electricity was generated from coal, the equivalent of 1.5TWh. Tuesday, 07 November 2017
by Elisa Evans
Three Anaerobic Digesters and a saw mill…
As part of our Energy Account Management (EAM) service, our engineers will visit customer’s sites. As the Account Manager for our portfolio of Anaerobic Digester (AD) clients, it is always good to get to meet my customers face to face after only really speaking to them either on the phone or via
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