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1.6 million UK homes joined scheme to cut winter power demand
Some 1.6 million British homes signed up to a scheme paying them to cut electricity use to help prevent power shortages last winter, saving over 3,300 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity, National Grid said on Wednesday.
read more... 12/05/2023
Acer grants Nordic regulators more time for balancing rules
EU energy regulatory agency Acer has granted Nordic regulators an extra six months to decide on updates to the rules on market-based cross-zonal electricity balancing capacity allocation, it said late on Friday.
read more... 09/05/2023
Germany's Scholz says more renewables key to lower industry costs
Ramping up renewable power production rather than subsidies is the key to lower electricity prices for Germany's energy-hungry industry, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday, in an apparent dig at proposals by his government's economy minister.
read more... 08/05/2023
German coalition mulls subsidising electricity for energy-intensive industries
Germany’s three-party coalition is debating whether electricity prices for energy-intensive industries should be subsidised to prevent companies from moving production abroad.
read more... 05/05/2023
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German energy regulator expects lower power reserve needs this winter
Germany's energy regulator said on Friday it has asked for less reserve power capacity to avoid supply shortfalls in the coming winter than it did last year, citing increased capacities reactivated when Russia stopped gas flows last year.
read more... 02/05/2023