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Derril Water’s curtailment highlights a sequencing problem for UK renewables. Elliott Meighan, Energy Solutions Consultant at Equity Energies, explains why behind-the-meter solar and storage face a fundamentally different risk profile.
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Ofgem has published new strategic priorities for Britain’s energy codes. Network planning, grid forming, flexibility, and governance changes feature in the programme.
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Morgan and Morecambe transmission infrastructure has secured UK development consent. The approval covers export cables, landfall works, substations, and the grid connection to Penwortham.
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Swedish grid constraints pushed southern power prices sharply higher Monday. SE4 reached €797/MWh as low wind, nuclear maintenance, transmission outages, and constrained interconnection tightened the market.
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Europe has opened its next cross-border electricity infrastructure selection round. Transmission, storage, and smart-grid projects can now seek PCI or PMI status under the TEN-E framework.
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Construction has started on Belgium’s 82-kilometre Ventilus grid reinforcement programme. Elia is upgrading 380kV infrastructure to increase transmission capacity, integrate additional North Sea wind, and strengthen West Flanders’ electricity system.
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Britain’s transmission upgrade programme faces substantial delivery risks before 2030. The NAO warns delays could drive constraint costs substantially higher as generation connects ahead of sufficient grid capacity.
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Northern Ireland has outlined new electricity-system delivery priorities for 2030. Storage policy, interconnection, grid investment, renewable connections, and smart metering now form part of the programme.
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Eight European TSOs are seeking technologies to unlock grid capacity. Their joint call targets congestion, monitoring, power-flow control, and uprating of existing transmission infrastructure.
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IREC has quantified flood exposure across Barcelona’s metropolitan electricity network. Its methodology estimates €3–4 million of expected annual damage while separating direct infrastructure losses from customer impacts and cascading failures across other critical systems.