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“TRIAD! It’s illogical Captain” The above quote, in homage to all Trekkies, refers back to an earlier blog of March last year which drew attention to the fact that the benefits payable to owners or operators of ‘embedded’ generation assets were to be reviewed. In read more…
Published on 26th September, 2018
‘The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang oft agley’ – ‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns Battery-powered car technology has been around a long time. Electric cars were first invented and developed in the nineteenth century and by the early part of the read more…
Published on 24th July, 2018
In February we wrote a blog about developments in the so-called “balancing market”, covering the balancing services which are let out to contract by the National Grid as well as the Balancing Mechanism (BM) itself. To summarise – the System Operator (SO) National Grid meets read more…
Published on 16th May, 2018
“Ipsa scientia potential est – Knowledge itself is power” Sir Francis Bacon, 1597 The renowned English philosopher and statesman quoted above might well have been talking about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will come into effect on the 25th May this year. Ownership read more…
Published on 22nd March, 2018
The question in the title begs another question – can we really talk about a “balancing market” for electricity at all, with the answer being – no, not really. It is true that in a very broad sense the wholesale electricity market is to a read more…
Published on 8th February, 2018
The supply of electricity to customers on agreed contract terms is the historic “meat and drink” of the industrial and commercial (I&C) electricity market. In addition, there is now a large and growing number of electricity generators in the UK (for example waste to energy read more…
Published on 5th January, 2018
According to IBM, blockchain technology can be used to track the legal sale of cannabis – apparently it’s all part of the debate surrounding the possible legalisation of marijuana in Canada. Technology company Everledger is already using blockchain to verify the history of diamond transactions, read more…
Published on 15th November, 2017
The appointment in mid-July of Dieter Helm to carry out an independent review into the cost of energy was as a result of an objective expressed in the January 2017 Industrial Strategy green paper, and subsequently in the Conservative Party election manifesto, for the UK read more…
Published on 4th September, 2017
Within the electricity industry we love our buzzwords and acronyms just as much as any other business sector – with Batteries and BTM (behind-the-meter for those not in the know) being the latest as part of the general excitement surrounding the issue of storage. These read more…
Published on 7th August, 2017
“Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology – from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold” – Steven Sinofsky The above quote by the ex-Microsoft executive responsible for read more…
Published on 10th July, 2017
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