supergrid
How best to meet the energy storage shortfall Now the key polices of Electricity Market Reform are ready to roll, you could be forgiven for thinking we have – at last – got our energy needs sorted. Certainly, in the key areas of promoting low-carbon generation and ensuring sufficient future capacity, we have some useful […]
An €86.6 million (£69m) of funding granted by France for an energy network research project has been approved by the European Commission. It said the state subsidy for the SuperGrid programme, aimed at developing a new generation of energy transmission networks, did not distort competition in France and therefore “complies with EU rules”. The proposed […]
A group of MPs have backed plans for a European ‘supergrid’ as it is likely to bring down the high costs of moving to a low carbon economy. A report by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee says that connecting the UK’s electricity system with neighbouring countries would allow the National Grid to balance […]
Friends of the Supergrid, an organisation formed this year by 10 global companies to push for a pan-European electricity network, has appointed its first chief executive. Ana Aguado joins the organisation from the European University Institute where she was a director. Before that she was secretary general of the Association of European Transmission System Operators. […]