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...
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,...
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...
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...
NG’s flex trials reward battery homes with “up to 10 times” cash paid to...
Owners of home batteries earned up to ten times more cash from the National Grid’s Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) than participants who manually switched...
North Sea stashes: Authority issues first permits to sequester carbon
Fourteen high volume storage operators learned today they’ve received 21 licences between them to pump CO2 and other greenhouse gas pollutants into voids under...
EDF Renewables secures 3 grid-scale battery sites
EDF Renewables UK has secured planning approval for three new grid-scale battery sites in Kent, Norwich and Essex which will support the transition to...
Going down smaller hills; pair pump market for long-duration storage
Known as High-Density Hydro®, the innovation could offer 100MW in commercial operation this decade, the pair believe, through use of Mercia PR’s existing grid...
UK primed to become a global frontrunner in battery recycling
The UK has everything it needs to become a frontrunner in the global battery recycling industry but, to achieve this, there must be collaboration...
Gore Street chooses EDF to run British third battery
Energy investment innovators Gore Street Energy Storage Fund have chosen French-owned EDF to optimise clean power trades from its new 80MW battery.
Located at Stony,...
World’s biggest ohm game near Old Trafford: Manchester nets globe’s biggest grid-scale battery
Energy infrastructure developer Carlton Power this morning announced it has won planning approval to install the world’s biggest known electricity storage device on a...
Ecotricity to launch UK’s first electric airline, but with kerosene fuelling early flights
High profile green industrialist Dale Vince, pictured, is to launch what he intends to become the UK’s first all-electric airline.
Ecotricity, Vince’s 28-year old low...
NG zooms for industry views to speed renewables hook-ups
National Grid ESO has opened its latest round of consultation events, aimed at tapping industry wisdom to speed up connections for new renewables generators.
Over...
Cero and Enso agree financing on 50MW battery for Larks Green
The developers of Britain’s first solar farm now generating directly into the nation’s transmission network have agreed financial terms to add a 49.9MW battery...
Ferrybridge to house SSE Renewables’ second grid-scale battery
Energy supplier SSE Renewables has announced its second former coal-fired power station site at Ferrybridge, west Yorkshire, will house a 150MW grid-scale battery. The...
Masdar chooses Octopus’s Kraken to run £1 billion UK storage deal
Global green power developer Masdar has chosen Octopus Energy’s Kraken platform to manage its £1 billion investment in grid-scale batteries in the UK.
The deal...