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Action to extend caps on transmission charges in Scotland

The UK government is using a Private Member's Bill on climate change and sustainable energy, current...

One failure and one success story -- Attacking grid bottlenecks

Two recent attempts at streamlining the management of electricity transmission grids on opposite sid...

Ontario allows net metering up to 500 kW

The Ontario government has passed a regulation allowing net metering for renewable energy installati...

Tighter rules for grid connection -- Everybody happy

Transmission operators in the US appear poised to fall in line with an agreement between the America...

Wind lobby groups call for net metering

Italian wind energy association Associazione Nazionale Energia Del Vento (ANEV) has joined forces wi...

Addressing the barriers to small generation in Ontario

Ontario Energy Minister Dwight Duncan has asked two of the agencies overseeing the province's electr...

No barrier to large volumes of wind

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says there are no technical barriers to much larger penetratio...

Transmission there but access blocked

While construction of major new power lines cannot be put off for ever, better management of existin...

Opening the floodgates

Spain's wind sector has a new target of 20 GW for 2010 (page 42). It replaces a 13 GW cap. With over...

Variability not such a big problem -- Alberta revelations

Managing fluctuations in wind power generation in the Canadian province of Alberta is likely to be f...

Showing the world how to do it in Quebec

With masses of hydro power, large storage reservoirs and a truly extensive transmission network, Hyd...

Broad welcome of new Spanish goals -- Government strategy increases wind target by 7000 MW

Despite some key reservations, the Spanish wind industry has broadly welcomed the government's long ...

Legislative shots missed their mark -- Industry dodges a bullet in California

The California wind industry dodged a bullet recently when it managed to stall a bill in the state a...

Fair balance from Germany's new energy act

Germany's energy industry act -- which came into force in July 2005 -- promises to shed light on how...

Small may be beautiful

Micro power generation on a grand scale is one of those utopian visions that sound great in theory, ...

Government and regulator at odds -- Paying for offshore transmission

Should power lines from offshore wind farms belong to a licensed transmission owner, with generators...

Stall control consigned to history books

As with all the grid codes, specifications for wind power in Denmark require the use of turbines whi...

Mainstreaming wind at the grid face

Electricity supply systems were not designed with wind power in mind and until recently wind turbine...

An evolotionary tale

Part of a grid operator's job is to safeguard both the safety and quality of its electricity supply....

Appealing underground cable ruling in Tasmania

Hydro Tasmania is appealing against a ruling that it must put a planned 110,000 volt transmission li...

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