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UK's ultra-rapid EV charging stock to triple with new £300m funding package
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Flexitricity and Devonshire food firm deliver first 'virtual' balancing mechanism trade
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OVO offers £50m financial support package to customers impacted by coronavirus
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Drax to end coal generation in 2021
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NIC calls for 'decisive action' to deliver flexible electricity system
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Energy firms to pay £10.5m over August 2019's major blackout
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REA: Ofgem failing to realise crucial role of flexibility in reaching net-zero
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Planning for the next power outage
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Which? accused of defamation over 'misleading' renewable guarantees claims
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Energy regulator 'out of touch over climate crisis', say businesses
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Ofgem and BEIS call on networks to realise £40bn flexible energy opportunity
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UK gas must be 'completely' decarbonised by 2050, says think-tank
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Call for decentralised energy optimisation as FIT regime due to end
Fresh mechanisms will be required to ensure that new decentralised generation is visible on the grid once the feed-in tariff (FIT) regime ends this March, an event heard last week.
