Sodium-Ion Batteries: Why bother with sodium?
Sodium-ion batteries are being developed due to potential costs, safety, sustainability and performance characteristics over traditional lithium-ion batteries suggests IDTechEx’s new report, “Sodium-ion Batteries...
Long-duration battery storage: D-ESNZ consults on industry views
The government has launched a two-month consultation into long-duration electricity storage on Britain’s grids.
Extending volumes of power hosting for periods beyond two hours is...
Home energy managers Wondrwall ink expansion deal
Home energy technology company Wondrwall has signed a £100 million finance deal aimed at spreading its management platform into thousands of UK residences.
Its alliance...
UK Power Networks’ DSO opens up new data to boost renewables
UK Power Networks has become the first Distribution System Operator (DSO) to respond to industry calls and publish full data on curtailment history across...
NG and Piclo ally to boost local flex
Flexibility trading pioneer Piclo and National Grid’s Electricity Distribution division today launched a strategic partnership, aimed at easing access for Flexibility Service Providers (FSPs)...
UK storage pipeline charges to 85GW record
Electricity storage projects at all stages of development – from planning application on paper to full operation, including trading – have surged to record...
Demand Flexibility Service: Piclo and CUB working together to unlock commercial and industrial flexibility
Flexibility - the ability to change electricity generation or use - will be at the heart of the UK’s electricity system in the years...
Vision thing: Government launches aspirations for competitive CCUS
Ministers are sharpening their long-term vision of creating a competitive UK market for carbon capture and storage (CCUS).
In a policy programme dubbed CCUS Vision,...
Heat pumps: NG launches second round of Equinox DSR trials
National Grid has kicked off the second stage of its award-winning Equinox DSR pilots after recruiting over 1,000 homes equipped with heat pumps.
During the...
Flexibility is key to reach a more sustainable future GridBeyond’s energy report says
The 2021- 2023 energy crisis and its impact on the global energy system, increased prices in oil, gas and electricity markets. As a result....
ABB and Gravitricity mine potential of hoist-delivered batteries
Energy storage innovators Gravitricity have signed a development deal with global engineers ABB designed to advance both parties' hoists-as-batteries offer.
Re-opening old mine shafts across...
ENGIE & Canadian Solar bring two 2-hour grid batteries to Scotland
French-based power supplier ENGIE has signed a deal with green generator Canadian Solar’s e-Storage offshoot to construct two 50MW/100MWh, two-hour duration battery sites in...
Solid as sodium: Lancs battery pioneers approach volume output, thanks to Italian partners
British battery technologists have co-developed a manufacturing process easing automation in making next-generation cells based on sodium-metal-chloride chemistry.
LiNA Energy, a privately held, six-year old...
Battery innovators store up their share of Faraday challenge’s £11 million
Innovators with cutting edge battery tech ideas and projects have been awarded grants of up to £907k by the Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC).
Twenty pioneering...
Piclo flexes to the Max, plans global trades for 2024
Trading platform provider Piclo is readying for launch a product that will enable its clients to trade flexibility capacity on global markets.
Starting in the...
Regulator floats regional ‘think-and-do’ planners to spur cleaner networks
Ofgem is setting up a network of regional planners to improve the UK’s energy transition, in a bid to secure greater resilience in bi-directional...
NG drops checks on 20GW of battery plug-ins, pledges “6 Hinkley Cs” of quicker...
Backbone electricity shifter National Grid ESO today pledged cuts as high as four years in delays to connect up to 20GW of utility-scale storage,...
Second year for nation’s flex trials, as NG-ESO offers £3 per kWh
Ofgem’s approval on Friday means that today sees a repeat of cash incentives offered to businesses and homes shifting electricity loads outside peak times.
National...
Tag taps 3 banks for £70m to set 100MW battery humming near Drax
Global clean energy enterprise TagEnergy has secured a debt package to finance its next UK-based battery energy storage system (BESS) project under an innovative...
Cleverer net charges & more BM players could fast-track UK’s energy transition: Cornwall &...
Reforming fees charged to use the electricity network could accelerate cost-effective decarbonisation of Britain’s electricity system, putting the UK back on track meet its...