British Utilities

EVs are predicted to raise electricity demand by 71.6TWh

EVs are predicted to raise electricity demand by 71.6TWh: The latest figures from Cornwall Insight’s ‘Benchmark power curve’ forecasts that by 2040 EVs will contribute an additional 71.6TWh, this is a massive 31 times higher than the current level of demand for electricity from electrified transport and 25% of current annual demand which stands at…

EV chargers to be fixed not to run on peak time to help grid

EV chargers to be fixed not to run on peak time to help grid: Electric vehicle (EV) charging spots at British homes & offices will be set to turn off for 9 hours each day to avert grid congestion that can bring about blackouts. The Times reported that new rules will come into effect by…

Impact of North Sea Link on GB energy market

Impact of North Sea Link on GB energy market: June 2021 saw the first electricity flows across Britain’s latest interconnector, the 1.4GW North Sea Link (NSL) with Norway. The interconnector will commence full operation on 1 October, supplying GB with relatively cheap, low carbon electricity imports. Recent analysis from Cornwall Insight looks into this new…

UK Government sparks a hydrogen revolution

UK Government sparks a hydrogen revolution: The government has now published its much-awaited Hydrogen Strategy that is expected to deliver 9,000 jobs as well as open up £4 billion investment by 2030. Included in the strategy, a current public consultation has been started to investigate ways to reduce the cost of hydrogen production. A current…

Cornwall is beginning to boil

Cornwall is beginning to boil A power plant that is located United Down Industrial Estate in Cornwall has rcently delivered what is being claimed as the UK’s very first geothermal steam using 175°C water which was extracted from 5.1 kilometres underground. This will be converted and hopefully be turned into approximately 3MWe of power which…

Market for new-build renewables doubtful to meet net zero

Market for new-build renewables doubtful to meet net zero: The current market and options available for new-build renewables are inadequate to keep the UK on track to its net zero target. According to National Grid Future Energy Scenario (FES), the UK needs approximately 87-113GW (scenario dependent) of renewables capacity by 2030 and 197-231GW by 2050.…

Scottish generator’s transmission network charges still rise

23rd March 2021

Heather Trudeau

Cornwall Insight, Efficiency & Environment, National Grid, net-zero, power generation, Scotland

Cornwall Insight, efficiency and environment, National Grid, net-zero, onshore wind, power generation, Scotland

Scottish generator’s transmission network charges still rise: Further research into National Grid‘s 5-year view of Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) charges by Cornwall Insight highlights, annual TNUoS costs for a typical 40MW onshore wind site in Northern Scotland are forecast to rise to £1.28mn by 2025-26. This is an increase of 180% in nine…

National Grid confer on energy from Scotland to Yorkshire

National Grid confer on energy from Scotland to Yorkshire: National Grid will initiate a consult on a new energy project to transfer renewable energy from Scotland to Yorkshire to be held next Monday. The Scotland to England Green Link 2 (SEGL2) will deliver renewable energy from Scotland by way of the North Sea to the…

National Grid acquires £7.8bn Western Power Distribution

National Grid acquires £7.8bn Western Power Distribution: National Grid has reported the £7.8 billion take over of Britain’s biggest electricity distribution business, Western Power Distribution (WPD). The purchase from PPL Corporation is predicted to permit the group to make a ‘strategic’ portfolio repositioning. The company also said, in the second half of this year, it…

Set to cut transport emissions is the stone recycling project

15th March 2021

Heather Trudeau

carbon dioxide emissions, Efficiency & Environment, Infrastructure, Lincolnshire, National Grid, Siemens Energy, Viking Link interconnector

Set to cut transport emissions is the stone recycling project: Recently Siemens Energy has launched a stone reuse project to reduce emissions and construction traffic in Lincolnshire. This initiative will move more than 8,768 tonnes of stone, and was used to build a temporary access road and site accommodation for the Triton Knoll onshore substation…

National Grid

EVs are predicted to raise electricity demand by 71.6TWh

EV chargers to be fixed not to run on peak time to help grid

Impact of North Sea Link on GB energy market

UK Government sparks a hydrogen revolution

Cornwall is beginning to boil

Market for new-build renewables doubtful to meet net zero

Scottish generator’s transmission network charges still rise

National Grid confer on energy from Scotland to Yorkshire

National Grid acquires £7.8bn Western Power Distribution

Set to cut transport emissions is the stone recycling project

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