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TNEI’s vision for the energy sector is to help to secure a smooth and secure transition for the UK to meet it’s “Net Zero” targets. Achieving “Net Zero” in the UK by mid-century will require significant changes across the whole energy system and will be a major challenge to all involved. TNEI is keen to support this change by finding new and creative ways of producing, distributing and managing energy across our systems in a secure, cost effective and sustainable manner. As an SME we are looking to play our part by basing our business plans on supporting this move to “Net Zero”. As part of our plans and our own ongoing commitment to helping to achieve the country’s environmental targets, members of TNEI’s Climate Action Group have calculated our carbon footprint from travel and office energy consumption and in response to our findings we are pleased to announce we

Last week Charlotte Higgins, Dieter Gütschow and Stephanie Hay represented TNEI at the NGESO Distributed Restart Annual Conference in London. The 3-year project kicked off in 2019 and is a partnership between National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), SP Energy Networks (SPEN) and TNEI. The project has been awarded £10.3 million of Network Innovation Competition (NIC) funding. Distributed ReStart explores how Distributed Energy Resources (DER) in Great Britain can be used to restore power in the highly unlikely event of a total or partial blackout of the National Electricity Transmission System. The annual conference was very well attended providing a great opportunity to focus on deliverables across all workstreams. We saw a wide range of representatives from the industry attend including generators and flexibility providers, BEIS, Ofgem, ENA, various electricity network operators as well as academics. TNEI’s Innovation Lead and project steering committee member Charlotte Higgins delivered a presentation at

We are delighted to announce that TNEI‘s Max McFarlane is a finalist for the Culture Change Award in this year’s Scottish Renewables Young Professionals Green Energy Awards. Max joined TNEI as a Graduate Engineer in July 2019 and has already made a considerable impact at TNEI with his ongoing commitment to changing our culture for the better. Max has worked hard to make TNEI more carbon conscious and clearly understands the importance of increasing awareness of potential CO2 emitted by our actions, and is leading by example in helping to reduce TNEI’s carbon footprint. So far Max has taken on the responsibility of changing our local suppliers to more environmentally friendly alternatives and has taken advantage of TNEI’s cycle to work scheme, motivating others to do so through Strava competitions in the process! A key member of TNEI’s climate change committee, Max is a highly valued member of the team

The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) in Ireland released draft Terms & Conditions for consultation on the RESS-1 auction in December 2019. The consultation closed on 17th January 2020 and stakeholder feedback is being considered. The next significant milestone in the RESS-1 auction process is the Qualification Application Opening Date on the 2nd March 2020, where bidders then have a three-week window in which to respond before the Application Closing Date on 26th March 2020. Bid bonds must also be submitted on or before this closing date. The RESS-1 auction is intended for projects which already have a grid connection and planning permission since they must be connected and operational by 21st December 2022, hence the requirement for a bid bond at the qualification stage. The final auction results will be given on 14th July 2020. The RESS-2 auctions, which will include offshore wind, will follow on