Tag: UK Power Networks

UK Power Networks ignites the future of clean heat

Stuart Mitchell

Decarbonising heat is one of the biggest opportunities in helping the achieve the UK’s journey to Net Zero. Currently, heat networks make up just 3% of the country’s heating demand, but this is set to rise sharply to 20% by 2050. Moving from fossil fuels to electrified heat networks (which deliver heating and hot water from a central energy source) will not only play a key role in cutting carbon emissions but will also put new demands on electricity infrastructure. To better understand and plan for this change, UK Power…

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UK Power Networks launch greener, cleaner, hybrid generators

Stuart Mitchell

UK Power Networks is investing in a new fleet of nine hybrid battery-engine generators supplying cleaner and quieter power supplies to homes during electricity maintenance. The company’s unique design, developed in partnership with Aquafuel Research, is programmed to charge in the daytime, when background noise is higher, and run silently at night, lowering carbon emissions, noise pollution, particulates and the need to refuel. The innovative battery engine hybrid generators emit 71% less carbon dioxide compared to diesel generators and reduce fuel consumption by 71%. The company projects this initial investment…

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UK’s biggest electricity distributor’s Net Zero ambitions validated

Stuart Mitchell

UK Power Networks which operates across London, the East and South East, is the first UK electricity network operator to be validated to the SBTi’s Net Zero Standard. To limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C the SBTi stresses that global emissions have to be halved by 2030 and the world has to achieve net-zero before 2050. Mark Adolphus, director of Health, Safety, Sustainability and Connections at UK Power Networks said: “We realise the urgency of taking action. The latest climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change –…

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Octopus launches Power-ups, free energy when the sun shines and the wind blows

Stuart Mitchell

Energy and technology company Octopus Energy has teamed up with UK Power Networks, the country’s largest electricity distribution network operator, to offer households free energy to help the grid exploit excess renewable power. Participating customers will get free electricity when there is excess electricity on the local grid from abundant renewables. Based on UK Power Networks’ forecasts, Octopus will send customers a notification of the times they can ‘Power-ups’ their homes for free a day in advance. In recent years, the transmission grid has begun to face challenges of imbalance…

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UK Power Networks works with Carbon Trust to set science-based targets

Stuart Mitchell

UK Power Networks has become the first UK distribution network operator to have its carbon reduction plan and targets endorsed by the Science-Based Target Initiative. The company is on course to achieve Net Zero for all its directly-controllable carbon emissions by 2028. Working with The Carbon Trust, UK Power Networks mapped the carbon footprint of all its emissions, including its supply chain, and modelled the actions it will take to reduce emissions and set challenging targets across all its activities.  Verified science-based targets are aligned with the Paris Agreement, an…

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