Terra Firma Energy Welcomes RWE’s Recent Analysis on the Essential Role of Flexible Generation in the UK

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 9, 2025--

Terra Firma Energy (“TFE”), a leading developer, owner, and operator of flexible generation assets across the UK, today welcomed the recent RWE industry analysis highlighting the critical role that flexible gas-fired generation will continue to play in supporting Britain’s decarbonising electricity system.

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As the UK accelerates the deployment of renewable energy, new commentary from major UK generators underscores that flexible gas-fired plants remain essential for grid stability, resilience, and security of supply. While operating hours are projected to decrease over time, these strategically located assets provide rapid-response capacity, frequency support, and balancing services needed to manage intermittency in a renewables-led power system.

TFE Development Director, Zach Dodds-Brown said:

“The UK’s energy strategy is undergoing its most profound shift in generations. Renewables will lead the transition, but flexible generation remains the backbone that ensures homes and businesses can rely on a stable and resilient energy supply. Terra Firma Energy is proud to be at the forefront of delivering this critical infrastructure, enabling the UK to decarbonise without compromising security.”

The recent RWE article cites a national flexible gas fleet of more than 7 GW that continues to provide essential system services, quick-start capability, and operational flexibility, key attributes as the UK increases reliance on wind and solar generation. These findings align closely with TFE’s strategy to expand its portfolio of highly responsive, high-efficiency flexible generation plants, designed to run only when needed and to complement low-carbon generation.

The RWE article also notes NESO’s forecasts, which show that significant flexible gas capacity will still be required through the 2030s to maintain security of supply as renewable generation grows. Even with falling run hours, NESO expects flexible gas to remain essential during periods of low wind and system stress.

TFE is currently developing a significant portfolio of flexible generation projects, supported by long-term Capacity Market contracts that provide stable returns while ensuring system availability during periods of peak demand or renewable shortfall.

Zach added “Flexible generation is not a barrier to decarbonisation, it is an enabler. Our portfolio ensures that renewable energy can be integrated at scale while keeping the lights on.”

With increasing grid volatility and growing demand for fast-acting reserve capacity, TFE expects flexible generation to continue playing a pivotal role through the 2030s and beyond.

About Terra Firma Energy
Terra Firma Energy constructs, owns and operates flexible power generation plants across the UK. With three operational sites and additional sites under construction totalling 116MW, the company is expanding through development and acquisition to support the UK's transition to a resilient, flexible, low-carbon energy system.

Terra Firma Energy's Burtonhead Road 20MW flexible Generation Plant in St Helens, UK

NEW YORK (AP) — The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine's person of the year for 2025 on Thursday.

The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view" with no turning back.

“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year,” Time said in a social media post.

The magazine was deliberate in selecting people — the “individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI” — rather than the technology itself, though there would have been some precedent for that.

“We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982,” wrote Sam Jacobs, the editor-in-chief, in an explanation of the choice. “The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie.”

One of the cover images resembling the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s shows eight tech leaders sitting on the beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind division Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who launched her own startup World Labs last year.

Another cover image shows scaffolding surrounding the giant letters “AI” made to look like computer componentry.

It made sense for Time to anoint AI because 2025 was the year that it shifted from “a novel technology explored by early adopters to one where a critical mass of consumers see it as part of their mainstream lives,” Thomas Husson, principal analyst at research firm Forrester, said by email.

AI was a leading contender for the top slot, according to prediction markets, along with Huang and Altman. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope whose election this year followed the death of Pope Francis, was also considered a contender, with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani topping lists as well.

Trump was named the 2024 person of the year by the magazine after his winning his second bid for the White House, succeeding Taylor Swift, who was the 2023 person of the year.

The magazine's selection dates from 1927, when its editors have picked the person they say most shaped headlines over the previous 12 months.

A sign for Time magazine is displayed outside the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Donald King)