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Power generation from Britain’s wind farms hit a record 14.2 gigawatts (GW) on March 17, National Grid said. This represented 34.2% of domestic electricity generation at 1430 GMT that day, the country’s power grid operator said....
Between 21 June to 22 September, 52% of electricity generation was met by low carbon sources, compared with about 35% four years ago. Growth in solar, offshore and onshore wind has contributed significantly to the increased share of generation from renewable sources. June 7 also became the first day when over half of the UK’s energy came from renewables....
The UK could rely on other countries for 93% of its gas supplies by 2040 if there is weak economic growth and not enough money available to support domestic gas production, National Grid said on July 5. This import forecast is a part of the British grid operator's "Slow Progression" scenario, one of four potential scenarios in its "UK Future Energy Scenarios"....
An underground explosion on January 22 in Tyseley, Birmingham, blew a manhole cover several feet into the air, narrowly missing a mother and her daughter as they passed nearby. The mother of the two-year-old girl said it is "a miracle" she escaped injury because of the proximity of the blast to the pair as they passed on the pavement....
UK power network operator National Grid will launch a tender this month inviting big energy users to reduce their electricity demand at times of peak consumption next winter, the company said on June 10. The country faces a capacity crunch because old power plants have closed but have not as yet been replaced by new generating capacity. ...
Mothballed gas-fired power plants could be used as a last resort in the event of a power shortage, under new plans unveiled by UK energy regulator Ofgem. The National Grid will also be able to ask industry to cut back on energy use during peak times in winter....
Early indications are that the undersea site 65 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast is viable for carbon dioxide storage and will be able to hold around 200 million tonnes permanently, National Grid said in August. This is equivalent to taking ten million cars off the road for 10 years....
In February, the Crown Estate confirmed it has signed a lease agreement with National Grid UK for an offshore saline aquifer that could permanently store CO2, 70 miles from the east Yorkshire coast. The deal provides a boost to National Grid's plans for a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) cluster on Humberside that would capture and store around a million tonnes of carbon emissions each year from power stations and heavy industry in the area....
Household energy bills will rise by more than £15 by 2020 to pay for a £38.2bn upgrade to the UK’s networks of gas pipelines and electricity cables, Ofgem said on December 18 as it unveiled its final plans for how much National Grid and three gas distribution companies should be allowed to spend over the next eight years....
Speaking at a conference in London on October 5, Chris Train, the National Grid’s Network Operations Director, said that the lights would stay on in the UK in the event of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar, which supplies nearly all of Britain's LNG....