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UK grid asks for additional capacity to fill probable winter supply gap
Britain’s power network operator National Grid has submitted by a year a plan to tap supplementary electricity capacity over the winter after a number of unpredicted plant outages.
read more... 02/09/2014
Chinese State Grid mulls Mediterranean power network
The European Commission’s dream to continental power grids which could be able to function in unison could soon become true, as State Grid Corporation of China, the world's largest utility by revenues, has acquired minority stakes in Portuguese and Italian grid operators and is equally envisaging buying stakes in Greece and Spain.
read more... 11/08/2014
Ofgem imposes new price controls for network operators
The UK’s energy market regulator Ofgem has imposed tougher price controls for five electricity network operators for duration of eight years, pledging to encourage investment in network upgrades and to drag down customers’ energy bills.
read more... 31/07/2014
A big solar storm is expected in the next decade
Solar scientists consider that the probability of a solar storm hitting Earth in the next decade with sufficient strength to do significant damage to power networks might be of about 12 percent.
read more... 28/07/2014
Ofgem gives the go- ahead to a £1.2bn subsea electricity link in Scotland
Scottish Hydro Electricity Transmission (SHE Transmission), the electricity transmission subsidiary of SSE, has got the green light from the UK Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem ) for a £1.2bn subsea link and transmission charging upgrade. It represents the greatest investment in the region’s electricity network since the 1950s.
read more... 15/07/2014