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Businesses ready to keep lights on in country’s first Capacity Market warning given on: October 31st, at 4.30pm
T
he National Grid has called on UK businesses to meet the
country’s first security of supply warning, showing the critical role that business-led flexibility plays in keeping the lights on. The National Grid has already
issued its first notice on October 31st under the new Capacity Market scheme warning. It said at 4.30pm on that day that there could be insufficient electricity production supply to meet the country’s demand. In response, 800 MW of demand reduction and on-site generation capacity
quickly prepared to fill the gap. These 800MW have security of supply contracts under this year’s Capacity Market Transitional Arrangements, which was only available to demand response and local generators. Nearly 90% of the Transitional Auction capacity comes from industrial and commercial energy users, such as Tata Steel. These energy customers are ready to provide hundreds of megawatts of demand side response and highly-efficient combined heat and power (CHP) by managing their processes intelligently and flexibly to ensure the lights stay on. ADE Director Dr Tim Rotheray said: “It is a testament to the growing demand response industry that energy users up and down the country are ready at a moment’s notice to meet our national energy security needs. “These agile businesses will collectively receive £19m to keep the lights on this
winter, without disrupting their day-to-day manufacturing processes. By participating in the Transitional Auction, they have gained a new revenue stream boosting their competiveness at a time of rising energy costs. Our analysis shows there is nearly 10 GW of business led flexibility which could help deliver in these events, found on manufacturing sites, hospitals and retail stores right across the country. “By using these businesses to secure the electricity supply, the UK is avoiding
costly new energy infrastructure which helps keep all energy consumer’s bills down. Today’s events show that by putting these users at the heart of the energy system, we will make it more cost-effective, reduce carbon emissions, and give customers a chance to participate in the system and take control of their energy use. As the Government considers its industrial strategy, flexible businesses and technologies such as CHP that help to drive efficiency while improving the competitiveness of British industry, should become the backbone of any plan.
ADE HEAT CONFERENCE ON NOVEMBER 23RD B
aroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister of State for Energy, will address Britain’s biggest energy challenge at the forthcoming Heat Conference.Heat accounts for
almost one half of UK energy costs and the cost of heat continues to rise. Britain faces an urgent challenge in transforming how homes, offices and industry are heated; in its recent report Next Steps for UK Heat Policy, the Committee on Climate Change put it simply: “deployment of low carbon heat cannot wait until the 2030s”. The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) and the Energy Institute (EI)
will place the challenge of heat centre stage at the 2016 Heat Conference, to be held in Central London on Wednesday 23 November. This year’s conference explores how the ambition for global change, as set out in
the Paris Agreement, can be transformed into local action. We will look at real life examples of user led change, examine the policymaking process and find out how technology and data innovations can help to enable the heat transition. Alongside Baroness Neville-Rolfe, confirmed speakers include: •Matthew Bell, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change •Martin Crouch, Senior Partner: Improving Regulation, Ofgem •Sue Daley, Head of Programme for Big Data, Cloud and Mobile, TechUK •Dan Osgood, Director for Heat and Business Energy, BEIS •Michael Pawlyn, Director, Exploration Architecture and noted TED speaker •Wilfred Petrie, Chief Executive Officer, Engie UK and Ireland •Laura Sandys, Founder, POWERful Women •Frauke Thies, Executive Director, Smart Energy Demand Coalition
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Transport for the North applies for devolved powers
T
ransport for the North (TfN) has submitted a formal proposal to the
Department for Transport to become a statutory sub-national transport body, which if approved will allow key powers to be transferred from central government. TfN is targeting statutory status by
2017. The proposal, which will be considered by transport secretary Chris Grayling, outlines the powers the organisation is looking to take over from the government and how those powers will be managed and delivered. If Grayling agrees to the bid, a statutory instrument will then need to be approved by each House of Parliament. If successful TfN, which has £50m confirmed funding over this Parliament and represents all local enterprise partnerships and all combined authorities and local transport authorities in the north, would be the first sub- national transport body in England. The organisation was created in 2014
to allow the region to identify how best to drive economic growth through strategic investment in transport. Earlier this year, TfN published a Northern Transport Strategy Report, which set out plans for a range of transformative projects across the regions such as east-west rail links and Smart North – a smart ticketing system to help passengers switch easily between buses, trains and trams across the region while ensuring value for money. David Brown, chief executive of TfN,
said that they had submitted the application 14th October, following several months of preparation for what it rightly being seen as a highly significant development in the north’s devolution journey. Brown commented: “This is a significant moment for the north, and for the wider UK, as work continues to develop the transport systems and infrastructure we need to rebalance the economy. Working with our northern partners, the Department for Transport, and the national operators, our mission is to kick-start transformational change by building on the foundations of an evidence-driven Northern Transport Investment Plan. “It’s an entirely new approach to developing transport infrastructure in the north, and while it will bring with it challenges, the results are aimed directly at closing the productivity gap between the north and the rest of the UK. It is ambitious, but it needs to be if the north is to be truly competitive.”
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IDGTE EVENTS
* Tuesday 15th November 2016 Energy4PowerLive
IDGTE will be participating at this event being held at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Come and see us at Stand 48.
* Thursday 17th November 2016 Annual General Meeting
To be held at the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation, The Hunt House, Paulerspury, Northamptonshire NN12 7NA. This will be followed by a buffet lunch and talk/tour of the facility. [See pic above]
* Thursday 20th April 2017
IDGTE's Technology Seminar & 70th Annual Luncheon
The 2017 IDGTE technology seminar and annual luncheon is to be held at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel. This will comprise a morning seminar session, followed by the traditional luncheon and guest speakers in the afternoon.
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