BEIS’s latest Renewable Energy Planning Database has shown that the UK’s operational renewables capacity grew by 175.3MW (0.4%) between December 2018 and March 2019 to a total of just under 40GW. Published on Tuesday 16 April, the data also showed that storage projects in England were responsible for the majority…
Business Secretary Greg Clark has committed to publishing a revised Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) for the smart meter rollout “before the end of the year”. In a letter sent to Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee Chair Rachel Reeves on 30 March and published in April by the BEIS…
BEIS published Updated Energy and Emissions Projections: 2018 on Thursday 11 April, detailing the UK’s projected progress from 2018 to 2035. The UK remains on track to miss the fourth and fifth carbon budgets. In the 2018 projections, one less GW of nuclear capacity (13GW) was predicted by 2035 than…
Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry has told the BEIS Committee that her department is investigating gas supply flexibility. In a letter published by the BEIS Committee in March, Perry said that following a workshop in March 2018 to present the BEIS report on gas security from October 2017,…
BEIS has published answers to questions concerning the FleX Competition which were sent during an information event on 13 March. Published on Monday 8 April, BEIS explained that applicants in the competition are allowed to outline a vision of how the flexibility exchange could operate better under different market or…
Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry has written an open letter to heat network operators, encouraging them to join the Heat Trust scheme. In the letter, published on Thursday 4 April, Perry said that companies registered with the Heat Trust are required to offer customer service standards comparable to…
Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry has announced four new smart energy demonstrator projects. In the Wednesday 3 April announcement, the minister said that these projects would demonstrate how businesses can develop local energy approaches at scale. One project is the Energy Superhub in Oxford, led by Pivot Power…
Renewables accounted for 33.3% of all UK generation in 2018, according to new energy trends statistics released by BEIS on Thursday 28 March. BEIS said this was due to a 9.7% increase in renewables capacity between 2017 and 2018, from 3.9GW to 4.4GW. Gas contributed 39.4%, whereas coal only contributed…
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 were down 3% on 2017 and down 44% on 1990, according to provisional statistics for the UK’s 2018 greenhouse gas emissions published on Thursday 28 March. Carbon emissions alone were down 2% on 2017 and 39% on 1990. The energy supply sector was…
Social landlords have revealed what they consider to be the main barriers to thermal retrofitting in a report published by BEIS on Friday 22 March. Structural issues within both housing associations and local authorities were cited by landlords, with there usually being separate budgets for routine maintenance and improvement work…