VPP champ Octopus Maxes out, permits firms to spread single-site clean generation UK-wide
Green-exclusive generator Octopus Energy, Britain’s third biggest supplier, is enabling multi-site companies who self-generate their renewable power to spread it between sites, even nationwide.
The...
Ofgem warns Balancing Mechanism players
Rocketing costs of last-minute interventions needed to balance Britain’s power grid have prompted an Ofgem warning that it stands ready to tighten market rules...
Crisis latest: Windfall tax on oil majors, say Labour: Keep Net Zero measures & tax carbon,...
The ‘temporary’ energy price crisis of suspected No.10 party-attender and beleaguered premier Johnson has ground on into its fourth month, with an appeal from...
Want long duration grid-focused batteries? Then put a Cap and Floor on balancing, Aurora...
Radical reforms to power trading rules are needed, if Britain is to achieve necessary expansion of long-duration power storage on route to Net Zero...
Play flex markets from social housing’s storage heaters? Ofgem clears aggregators to try
Britain’s biggest home energy supplier is set to step aboard a new trial, linking flex trading to controllable storage heaters.
From September, Centrica will begin...
Divert 18% of this decade’s energy capex to storage, Cornwall Insight urges D-BEIS
Anticipating flex needs and keeping Britain’s fast-changing grids steady and balanced will come at a cost of £20 billion spent between 2025 and 2030...
ABB to plug 10MW Li-on battery into Ecotricity’s Gloucestershire wind farm
Power engineering multinational ABB Electrification is planning to locate its first UK battery, a 10MW/20MWh installation at a 6.9MWp wind farm owned by green...
SMITN poleaxes DNO into deeper love for users’ data
Britain’s biggest regional gridco Western Power Distribution is seeking new ways to crunch data from its smart meters, readying its switches and wires for...
RES wins planners’ blessing for 100MW Durham battery
Clean energy developer RES has secured planning permission to progress a 99.9MW battery close to an existing substation near Spennymoor, County Durham.
The mega-device is...