Interesting links, articles, news and blog posts sent out to members on 07/03/25.
Article: Stranded energy assets put UK on course for $141bn loss, says study – Energy Voice
6 March 2025, Jessica Mills Davies. The future global economic exposure to fossil fuel assets that could become stranded by the energy transition has doubled in the past five years from $1.4 trillion to $2.28tn by 2040:
Article: UK homes install subsidised heat pumps at record level – BBC News Online
6 March 2025, Esme Stallard and Becky Dale. The number of UK homes installing heat pumps supported by government-funded incentives rose to a record level last year:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e4nlxlq08o
Open consultation: Building the North Sea’s energy future – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
5 March 2025. Views sought on delivering the government’s commitment to support a prosperous and managed North Sea transition. This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 30 April 2025:
Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/building-the-north-seas-energy-future
Press release: Government to unleash the North Sea’s clean energy future –
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, HM Treasury, James Murray MP and The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
5 March 2025. The government is consulting on plans to put the North Sea at the heart of Britain’s clean energy future and drive economic growth:
Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-unleash-the-north-seas-clean-energy-future
Press release: Government unlocks floating offshore wind with major investment for Scottish port –
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
5 March 2025. The expansion of Port of Cromarty Firth will make it the first port able to make floating offshore wind turbines on site and at scale in the UK, backed by a grant from the Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme (FLOWMIS):
Article: Switching to electric vehicles will push the power grid to the brink – The Conversation
4 March 2025, Florimond Gueniat. The UK’s pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 hinges on replacing millions of petrol and diesel vehicles with cleaner alternatives. But transitioning to electric transport isn’t just about manufacturing new cars, installing chargers and so on. It’s a gargantuan energy generation challenge that could push the power grid to its limits:
News: Zenobē powers up a world first solution and Europe’s biggest battery at Blackhillock, Scotland – The Energyst
3 March 2025, Tim McManan-Smith. Zenobē, the UK’s leading owner and operator of grid-scale batteries on the GB transmission network, has announced that Europe’s largest battery site, located in Blackhillock, Scotland, has begun commercial operations:
Article: The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers – The Conversation
26 February 2025, Neil Ward. If the UK is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, over one-third of its sheep and cows will have to go, with their fields being replaced by huge new areas of woodland. That’s one conclusion of the latest report by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK government’s independent advisor on climate change:
Open consultation: Further reforms to the Contracts for Difference scheme for Allocation Round 7 – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
21 February 2025. Views sought on potential changes for Allocation Round 7 (AR7), due to open in summer 2025, and providing policy updates. This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 21 March 2025:
News: UK: Ofgem drives forward plans to introduce zero standing charge tariffs – Energy-pedia
21 February 2025. Every energy supplier will be required to offer energy tariffs with low or no standing charges so customers can choose to pay these costs as part of the unit rate, under plans published by Ofgem:
News: UK: Great British Energy interim CEO appointed – Energy-pedia
21 February 2025. Dan McGrail has been appointed as the interim Chief Executive Officer of Great British Energy, to help drive forward the government’s Plan for Change and clean energy superpower mission:
Link: https://www.energy-pedia.com/news/united-kingdom/great-british-energy-interim-ceo-appointed-198934
Review: Debt to society: what the network companies should do with their windfall profits – Citizens Advice
20 February 2025. Citizens Advice has completed a review of the current set of price controls that apply to energy network companies: