electricity grid

It is planning to invest around €25m in the County Monaghan scheme

This new approach is expected to save consumers up to £128m over the six-year period

The funding will be used by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation for new energy generation, storage and transmission infrastructure

The company has had the concession rights through its subsidiary for more than 20 years

That’s more than double the support from this year, which stands at NOK495 million (£45.7m)

It will support the research, development and demonstration of next generation tools and technologies

Northern Powergrid has announced a £1.9 million project to figure out how best to integrate distributed technologies into the electricity grid. The distribution company aims to eventually create a low carbon energy market where the 3.9 million homes it serves can make their own money from solar panels, electric vehicles and home batteries. It claims […]

Applications for drone technology across the global power and utilities industry could be worth up to $9.5 billion (£7.2bn) a year by 2021. That’s the forecast from PwC, which suggests the unmanned aerial vehicles could prove useful in a wide number of roles, for example conducting geospatial surveys, assessing levels of pollution and even using […]

E.ON is one of the first companies in Germany to control solar systems using smart meters. The energy supplier has developed a control box that can prevent grid congestion by flexibly controlling how much power the solar panels generate. Control boxes and smart meters can be used to reduce and increase output from a remote […]

Distributed generation (DG) poses a serious threat to utility revenues and network capacity. That’s according to a new survey from Accenture, which questioned more than 100 global utility leaders about the effects the new type of energy network could have on the sector. Among these executives, 58% said they believe DG will cause a drop in earnings for large […]