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Capacity Market

Capacity Market: CO2 limits introduced for back-up power supply contracts
Capacity Market: CO2 limits introduced for back-up power supply contracts

Move should make it easier for battery storage and demand side response to compete for contracts, say renewable energy providers

  • Infrastructure
  • 21 May 2020
Government hurries out proposals to relax Capacity Market rules in response to Covid-19 crisis
Government hurries out proposals to relax Capacity Market rules in response to Covid-19 crisis

BEIS seeks to relax obligations and deadlines for back-up power providers to 'reduce administrative and operational burdens' amid pandemic

  • Energy
  • 27 April 2020
'We must go further': Ofgem debuts Decarbonisation Action Plan
'We must go further': Ofgem debuts Decarbonisation Action Plan

Following accusations the watchdog has failed to do enough to support the net zero transition, incoming CEO uses first day in the post to unveil sweeping climate manifesto

  • Energy
  • 03 February 2020
'Prolonged uncertainty': Drax, Orsted and SSE call for post-Brexit carbon price clarity
'Prolonged uncertainty': Drax, Orsted and SSE call for post-Brexit carbon price clarity

Move echoes calls from green groups for 'robust carbon pricing' measures, as pressure grows for next government to bring forward UK coal power phase out date to 2022

  • Net Zero Now
  • 31 October 2019
UK Capacity Market secures green light from EU following State Aid probe
UK Capacity Market secures green light from EU following State Aid probe

Government says it expects back-up power auction scheme to soon be restored, with almost £1bn of back-payments to be made to generators in January

  • Infrastructure
  • 24 October 2019
At a glance: BEIS' proposals for clean energy reforms
At a glance: BEIS' proposals for clean energy reforms

Your need-to-know guide to the pre-recess energy policy blitz from BEIS

  • Energy
  • 23 July 2019
Global briefing: Australia approves Adani coal mine
Global briefing: Australia approves Adani coal mine

BusinessGreen brings you all the green news from around the world this week

  • Management
  • 14 June 2019
When will the Capacity Market confusion end?
When will the Capacity Market confusion end?

With Greenpeace backing a judicial review into the Capacity Market suspension, hopes are fading fast that auctions could go ahead this year - and that implications for coal and clean tech alike

  • Policy
  • 26 March 2019
On capacity and procedures
On capacity and procedures

Andrew Warren reflects on the EU's challenge to the UK's capacity market and asks if this really is all about the 'procedural matters' Ministers have claimed

  • Policy
  • 06 March 2019
European Commission launches investigation into UK Capacity Market
European Commission launches investigation into UK Capacity Market

Probe will determine whether subsidy scheme is in line with EU State Aid rules following shock court ruling last year

  • Legislation
  • 22 February 2019
MPs and Lords demand answers from Perry on capacity market and carbon tax
MPs and Lords demand answers from Perry on capacity market and carbon tax

BEIS Committee raises concern over EU's suspension of Capacity Market, while Lords Committee wants answers on plans for a no-deal Brexit carbon tax

  • Politics
  • 21 December 2018
Brexit confusion, Capacity Market woes, and the end of the trilemma: Where next for UK clean power?
Brexit confusion, Capacity Market woes, and the end of the trilemma: Where next for UK clean power?

It has been a week of turmoil in Westminster, but where do recent events leave a UK clean energy policy landscape that was already in flux?

  • Energy
  • 16 November 2018
Capacity Market suspended after landmark EU ruling
Capacity Market suspended after landmark EU ruling

ECJ rules EU Commission should have done more to investigate whether Capacity Market is in breach of State Aid rules following legal challenge brought by Tempus Energy

  • Legislation
  • 15 November 2018
Solar: Welcome to the only unsubsidised source of power around
Solar: Welcome to the only unsubsidised source of power around

Labour's Alan Whitehead argues the government's consultation on the Feed-in Tariff scheme and support for solar proves it: there is one rule for renewables and another for non-renewables

  • Solar
  • 26 July 2018
Government confirms latest capacity market auction
Government confirms latest capacity market auction

Claire Perry announces plan to auction 46.3GW of power for 2022/23 period and 4.6GW for 2019/20 to ensure enough power in case of any surges in demand

  • Energy
  • 10 July 2018
Claire Perry announces formal review of capacity market 'later this year'
Claire Perry announces formal review of capacity market 'later this year'

Review will look at penalties, contract lengths, and potentially opening up capacity market to new technologies such as renewables, Minister tells energy sector conference

  • Legislation
  • 20 March 2018
There's more than one way onshore wind farms could cut costs for billpayers
There's more than one way onshore wind farms could cut costs for billpayers

New report argues that allowing all renewables technologies top bid for a new form of capacity contract could slash costs for consumers by £600m

  • Energy
  • 15 March 2018
Record low clearing price for capacity market auction sparks questions over scheme's future
Record low clearing price for capacity market auction sparks questions over scheme's future

Do we have a capacity problem, or a flexibility problem, on the UK grid?

  • Infrastructure
  • 09 February 2018
Coal phase out continues: Eggborough to close after losing out in capacity market auction
Coal phase out continues: Eggborough to close after losing out in capacity market auction

Power plant announces closure after gas and demand response projects squeeze coal's role in latest capacity auction

  • Infrastructure
  • 02 February 2018
British offshore wind capacity could hit 30GW by 2030s
British offshore wind capacity could hit 30GW by 2030s

Market could see five-fold growth by the 2030s, according to new Aurora report highlighting the 'new economics' for offshore wind

  • Wind
  • 18 January 2018
How EU utilities could save billions by phasing out coal power
How EU utilities could save billions by phasing out coal power

New analysis details how plummeting renewables prices, cheap gas and rising compliance costs mean over half of EU coal plants already lose money

  • Energy
  • 08 December 2017
Batteries set to be major competitor in upcoming capacity market auctions
Batteries set to be major competitor in upcoming capacity market auctions

But rule changes mean there's a sting in the tail for battery developers bidding for a Capacity Market auction

  • Infrastructure
  • 04 December 2017
Energy giants launch 'Make Power Clean' campaign to cut subsidies for polluting plants
Energy giants launch 'Make Power Clean' campaign to cut subsidies for polluting plants

Thirteen industry leaders, including Statoil, Siemens, Shell and Iberdrola, launch joint initiative to set emissions cap for new energy capacity

  • Legislation
  • 27 June 2017
Report: Have nervous ministers overspent on energy security?
Report: Have nervous ministers overspent on energy security?

New research reveals £180m Supplemental Balancing Reserve system was never called on during its three-year lifetime, sparking fears UK may have over-invested in energy security measures

  • Infrastructure
  • 13 March 2017
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