Development Platform Archives - Power Initiatives

Hydrogen- Pipe Dream or a Reality?

By Tim RileyPosted on October 28, 2022Posted in Development Platform, Hydrogen, Shovel ReadyTagged blackouts, clean energy, Green Hydrogen, grid connections, Hydrogen Congress, hydrogen energy, National Grid ESO, net zero, network reinforcement, planning, planning consent, resilience

Power Initiatives check out the World Hydrogen Congress in October 2022 The furore over hydrogen is building speed and just how important it will become in the future fuel mix for the UK and across the world is in its infancy, with the spectrum of hydrogen production available and its ultimate usage still in debate. […]

Another Planning Win for Power Initiatives

By Tim RileyPosted on October 18, 2022Posted in Battery Storage, Development Platform, Shovel ReadyTagged blackouts, Bridgend, clean energy, grid connections, National Grid ESO, net zero, network reinforcement, planning, planning consent, Preston, resilience, rotherham, torbay, Torbay Council.

Secured Planning Consent Power Initiatives has secured planning consent on a 35MW battery storage plant in Rotherham. This approval follows the 25MW battery storage plant consent awarded by Torbay Council in early September. Adding to recent awards in Preston and Bridgend, respectively. Eight weeks from validation Rotherham Council granted the planning application in late September, […]

Electricity System Operator (ESO) has Identified a New Approach to Managing Connections

By Tim RileyPosted on September 30, 2022Posted in Development Platform, Shovel ReadyTagged blackouts, clean energy, grid connections, National Grid ESO, net zero, network reinforcement, resilience, Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) Register.

Timely News For Grid Connections National Grid ESO has issued exciting and timely news to tackle the bottleneck of the connections to the transmission grid. We highlighted this last month in our support for the open letter given by Regen to Nick Winser. Power Initiatives has over 200MW in pre-construction stage currently, with some grid connection […]

Resilience and Reinforcement of the UK’s Energy Network are Essential to Prevent Blackouts

By Tim RileyPosted on August 26, 2022Posted in Development Platform, Shovel ReadyTagged blackouts, clean energy, grid connections, net zero, network reinforcement, resilience

Preparations As National Grid prepare ahead of 2022’s network assurance exercise this year and consumers reel at the price hikes that will hit their energy bills in the foreboding winter ahead; the Development Platform that Power Initiatives have recently launched will play a significant role in the coming years in keeping the lights on across […]

Power Initiatives add their Support to Regen’s Open Letter.

By Tim RileyPosted on August 26, 2022Posted in Development Platform, Shovel ReadyTagged clean energy, net zero

Full Support Power Initiatives would like to add our full support to REGEN’s open letter to Nick Winser, the new Electricity Networks Minister, where they outlined the issues affecting power generation projects and the delays in getting connections to the grid. Regen is a not-for-profit centre of energy expertise and market insight whose mission is […]

Hydrogen Production Projects Gets the Green Light from the Government

By Tim RileyPosted on July 25, 2022Posted in Development Platform, Hydrogen, Shovel ReadyTagged clean energy, Hydrogen, net zero

Clean-hydrogen subsidy scheme The UK government opened the world’s first national clean-hydrogen subsidy scheme in July 2022 to help fund an initial 1GW of green H2 and 1GW of blue H2 projects as it aims to reach 10GW of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030. £240m ($288.5m) of grant funding A single application process will enable developers to access […]