Rob Horgan is the Deputy Editor for Wwtonline, with a focus on national news in the United Kingdom. Rob covers a wide range of topics in the utilities sector, including energy efficiency, renewable energy, infrastructure upgrades, and industry developments. With a keen interest in the intersection of technology and sustainability, Rob provides insightful and informative articles for readers.
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Rob Horgan's coverage primarily focuses on energy, utilities, and renewable energy within the United Kingdom. His articles are often related to government announcements and press releases in these sectors.
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By: Rob Horgan
Rewarding individuals living near new grid infrastructure projects with pots of money will not stop legal challenges from being mounted against those schemes. That is the conclusion of a Citizens Advice report, which points to the public backlash to the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project as an example of…
Low-income households in Scotland could be given 50% discounts on their water bills, under proposals put forwards by Consumer Scotland. The consumer group has written to the Scottish Government calling for current discounts of 35% to be increased to cover above inflation bill increases. As well as increasing the level…
Fuel poor households use 21% less gas during cold weather than other households and 11% less electricity. Academics from UCL’s Energy Institute – who carried out the research – claim this discrepancy leaves “some of the UK’s poorest households […] exposed to potentially dangerous cold damp homes”. The research adds…
By: Rob Horgan
Statera Energy has secured the final investment deal it needed to proceed with its record-breaking Thurrock Flexible Generation project. The project comprises Thurrock Storage, a 300MW (600MWh) battery energy storage system, and Thurrock Power, a 450MW flexible generation project.
By: Rob Horgan
Moving to a clean power system can significantly reduce water used for power generation by 2050, it has been claimed. The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has stated that shifting to low carbon electricity generation could lead to a 10% decrease in water use by the middle of the century.…
By: Rob Horgan
The role of industrial electrification is being held back by a lack of incentives to develop and trial solutions. A government-commissioned report calls for industrial electrification technologies to be put on a level footing with hydrogen and carbon capture schemes. The report – carried out by sustainability consultancy ERM –…
By: Rob Horgan
Plans have been announced to protect water levels in Loch Ness to ensure proposed pumped storage hydro projects are able to operate at maximum efficiency all year round. The plans – put forwards by developer Statera Energy – will modify the existing weir, which was designed by Thomas Telford to…
Water companies will no longer be held to specific targets relating to the number of customers signed up to their respective priority service registers (PSRs). For the current five-year period (2020-2025), water companies were set the target of growing their PSRs to cover at least 7% of their respective customer…
Ofgem has approved £295 million for the construction of a major transmission project in Yorkshire. The National Grid project involves a proposed upgrade to the local electricity network to help transport energy generated by Scottish and North Sea wind farms to consumers.
Networks will be “held to account” for holding up connections to the grid. Ofgem has vowed to strengthen the regulatory frameworks for transmission and distribution network operators (DNOs) in a bid to tackle the backlog of projects waiting to connect. The regulator said that network companies “whose activities impact project…
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