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Britain breaks coal-free power record over Easter weekend
Britain has broken its record for the longest continuous period without generating electricity from coal. National Grid said that the coal-free period lasted more than 90 hours before coming to an end on Monday afternoon. It is the longest period since the industrial...
No place for coal as RWE shelves final lignite plans
RWE has shelved plans for a new coal-fired power station in Germany, announcing that new coal-fired units “no longer have a place” in its strategy. The energy giant had been due to replace existing coal-fired units at the Niederaussem power plant near the city...
Solar falls just short of generation record as GB smashes coal-free record
Solar PV generation in the UK peaked at 9.11GW this weekend – just short of the record – as the technology helped the country to a new coal-free milestone. The country lasted more than 90 hours without any coal generation over the course of an Easter weekend which saw...
National Grid issues innovation ‘call to arms’ as system stability tops priority list
National Grid’s Electricity System Operator (ESO) unit has placed system stability at the top of its innovation priority list, while issuing a “call to arms” for the energy industry to collaborate further. The ESO moved the function to the very top of its 10-strong...
How Does Solar Battery Technology Work?
Renewable energy is rightly growing in popularity. According to data from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), bioenergy, wind, solar and hydro accounted for 27.5% of all energy supplied in the UK in 2018, up from 23.5% in 2017. The...
Grid-edge ‘explosion’ driving a second system transition
An “explosion” in the number of devices connected at the end of the grid is driving a second transition and new demand for tech solutions. Speaking to Current±, Vera Silva, CTO at General Electric’s Grid Solutions arm, said that while software solutions had been...
Farewell FiTs: Industry leaders embrace a ‘new era’ for UK solar
UK solar is entering a “new era” following the closure of the feed-in tariff last weekend, and industry leaders are prepared to embrace the sector’s subsidy-free future. Chris Hewett, chief executive, the Solar Trade Association: “Having grown accustomed to the...
The Feed-in Tariff is dead. This is how small-scale renewables can live on.
Launched in 2010, the Government’s Feed-in Tariff (FiT) was a model that encouraged and enabled homes and businesses to generate their own renewable electricity. Solar cells generating power, feeding green energy into the grid. Small-scale, localised and, when it...
Farewell FiTs: How the feed-in tariff gave birth to UK Solar
Nine years on from the beginning of the feed-in tariff and the solar industry is a changed beast. Larger, certainly. Wiser, perhaps. One thing is for sure, it has learned to thrive in the face of uncertainty and rampant adversity. The process to implementing a feed-in...